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Mr. Tea
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This is pretty cool; a radiocarbon date of about 1500 for a rongorongo board from Rapa Nui/Easter Island pushes back the date for the invention of the script to well before European contact, and potentially increases the minimum number of times writing was independently invented from three to four:
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Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization
A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence.
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The more times it's done the less impressive it feels.This is pretty cool; a radiocarbon date of about 1500 for a rongorongo board from Rapa Nui/Easter Island pushes back the date for the invention of the script to well before European contact, and potentially increases the minimum number of times writing was independently invented from three to four:
Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization
A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence.
Murphy
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Vindolanda’s tablets are worth seeking out, most have been translated
I like the ordinariness of certain sections - how shit the wine options available were, party invites and associated micro-anxieties whether they’re well stocked and not be made to look like pauper hosts, people who hadnt written back to previous letters and how rude such a slight was perceived as, how awful the weather was/is
Fuck all’s changed
I like the ordinariness of certain sections - how shit the wine options available were, party invites and associated micro-anxieties whether they’re well stocked and not be made to look like pauper hosts, people who hadnt written back to previous letters and how rude such a slight was perceived as, how awful the weather was/is
Fuck all’s changed
Murphy
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outstanding read if you want to dive into the British Isles and Gaul emerging out of rumour and myth with late Bronze Age Greek historians into the full glare of the Roman Empire, cannot recommend enough
The Celtic Heroic Age : edited by John T. Koch and John Carey : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe & Early Ireland & WalesFourth Edition Revised and ExpandedPart I: Ancient Celtic EuropePart II: Early Irish...
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Mr. Tea
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Important HENGE news.
qz.com
Archaeologists found an ancient henge hidden in England
An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site
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"Amateur archaeologists have unearthed five human skeletons missing their hands and feet under the former home of the Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair military headquarters in present-day Poland."
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Five skeletons found under Wolf’s Lair home of Hermann Göring in Poland
Amateur archaeologists discover remains missing hands and feet at former Nazi military headquarters
www.theguardian.com
Murphy
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comet collision in Syria may have contributed to the shift towards agriculture 11,000 BC ish
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The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence
Firestone et al., 2007, PNAS 104(41): 16,016–16,021, proposed that a major cosmic impact, circa 10,835 cal. BCE, triggered the Younger Dryas (YD) clim…
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Murphy
cat malogen
Following on from lunar breeding cycles among species hunted by early humans, a late munch break condensed down if you play 1.5 x speed - Palaeolithic symbols and their role in the development of semiotics and language
This canteen should be permanently closed, wtf, the guest’s audio needs a boost and the vid host/interviewer is an absolute lascivious cock except .. the scope is truly global and the linguistic familiarities are just that - species as ‘family’ with shared symbols as old as anatomically modern humans that still exist today
Back to the quotidian grind
This canteen should be permanently closed, wtf, the guest’s audio needs a boost and the vid host/interviewer is an absolute lascivious cock except .. the scope is truly global and the linguistic familiarities are just that - species as ‘family’ with shared symbols as old as anatomically modern humans that still exist today
Back to the quotidian grind
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Archaeologists discover 12 skeletons at a buried tomb in Petra, Jordan
Mr. Tea
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This is pretty cool:
Population of up to 50,000 at a time when London's was about 8,000.
Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident
The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.
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Population of up to 50,000 at a time when London's was about 8,000.
william_kent
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In a narcotic trance, or stimulants in Germanic communities of the Roman period
Not a convincing paper - they found some spoons and made a leap that they were used for insufflation....
Not a convincing paper - they found some spoons and made a leap that they were used for insufflation....
Murphy
cat malogen
not unlike examples below where there seemed to have been an oil-smeared interpretative process (lazy shorthand - ritual) to where any of the applied material ended up in the 4 respective spoon quadrants
Mr. Tea
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Aww, he looks like he could use a little pick-me-up, doesn't he?
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Another insufflable hypothesis.
jenks
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leave the capital, exit this Roman shell...
yet more of the basilica discovered under Leadenhall Market - Mithras is coming back
yet more of the basilica discovered under Leadenhall Market - Mithras is coming back
London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.
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Archaeologists discover first pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt in more than a century
Uncovering tomb of Thutmose II hailed as most significant discovery since Tutankhamun in 1922
www.theguardian.com
