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Iza
bear cub
Username: Iza
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2006 - 11:53 am: |     |
I could have puked when I saw the damage done.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4589638.stm
I know it was an accident but it's still heartbreaking. I suppose they were lucky to recover anything. |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 6:22 am: | |
At first I thought that you were sick at the way the bodies had been tortured. Now I see you are pissed at the way the remains were hacked up by us. Good point, but often difficult to control. It wasn't a controlled excavation. Cool idea about the hair gel. I would never have thunk it!
Thanks!
Scott
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Ces gens, Jondalar, ils sourient. Ils me sourient. - Ayla |
Frebec
gatherer
Username: Frebec
Post Number: 110
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 6:13 pm: | |
Yes it was bad but it is a wonderful find the way peat bogs do not let things decay into mostly nothing. We learn more each time that some site like this is discovered.
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. |
Sweetsunray
storyteller
Username: Sweetsunray
Post Number: 838
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 12:49 am: | |
One interesting thing... since I've done Bronze Age Ireland research for the novel I'm writing (500 years earlier than these finds), I had to speculate on whether I'd incorporate human sacrifice in the culture or not. I chose to include it since everywhere else in Europe where Celts resided it was part of their rituals, though not with the numbers the Toltecs or Aztecs chose to kill people in Mexico. The defense argument for Irish Celts to not have done it, was that there had been no witness account of them, nor sacrificial human remains found, and that what Celts did in Britain or Gaul was not necessarily what Celts did in outskirt Ireland. Though I thought these naysayers were hanging on to the last straw, the argument of there not being historical witness proof or remains could not be laid aside at will. Guess, that's the proof right there.
Everyone has a motive for giving arguments. But only the arguments given matter. |
Angakuk
hunter
Username: Angakuk
Post Number: 476
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 4:18 am: | |
Nova program to air Feb. 7th on PBS stations.
The Perfect Corpse
"It takes all kinds to make a world and I'm just one of them." My Grandmother
I don't blame you for not believing in the kind of god you think I believe in. I don't believe in that god either. George MacDonald (paraphrase)
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