Sturgeon Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 Human population through time: Interesting that they think human population was so low before farming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 How did the Mycenaeans cut up the giant stones used in their temple complexes? It might have been with pendulum saws. Belesarius and Donward 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 9, 2018 Report Share Posted May 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Collimatrix said: How did the Mycenaeans cut up the giant stones used in their temple complexes? It might have been with pendulum saws. Neat stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 Quote Ötzi the Iceman Was a Heart Attack Waiting to Happen If a modern heart doctor could give medical advice to the iceman Ötzi — the man who was preserved as a mummy after his murder about 5,300 years ago in the snowy Alps — it would be this: Stop eating so much fatty meat and consider taking medications that lower your blood pressure and cholesterol. This advice is based on a new comprehensive look at the iceman mummy's cardiovascular health. A full-body computed tomography (CT) scan showed that Ötzi had three calcifications (hardened plaques) in his heart region, putting him at increased risk for a heart attack. [Mummy Melodrama: Top 9 Secrets About Otzi the Iceman] Ötzi also had calcifications around his carotid artery, which carries blood to the head and neck, and in the arteries at the base of his skull, which carry blood to the brain. Both hardened plaques likely elevated Ötzi's risk of a stroke, said Dr. Seth Martin, a preventive cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore who wasn't involved with the new study. https://www.livescience.com/62689-otzi-iceman-mummy-heart-disease.html Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 23 hours ago, Xlucine said: If a modern heart doctor could give medical advice to the iceman Ötzi — the man who was preserved as a mummy after his murder about 5,300 years ago in the snowy Alps — it would be this: Stop eating so much fatty meat and consider taking medications that lower your blood pressure and cholesterol. And a good leeching, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Our local iron age hill-fort (British Camp, Malvern): I can see my house from here! Nice plan view: I'm trying to find some pictures looking straight up at the ramparts from the plain below, but no luck so far.....Trust me, it's fekkin steep! Sturgeon and Donward 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 You call that a hillfort? This is a hillfort: One hectare larger I grew up a couple of miles away from it Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 Meh! Call that a hill.....200+ meters taller! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 Reminds me Chinese made hills-fortresses on Chinese-USSR border in 1960s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mogensthegreat Posted June 25, 2018 Report Share Posted June 25, 2018 The Pre-Indo-European people of the Danube Valley: http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/serbiavinca.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 6, 2018 Report Share Posted August 6, 2018 https://www.archaeology.org/issues/304-1807/from-the-trenches/6691-trenches-italy-lombard-prosthetic-weapon Groovy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 9, 2018 Report Share Posted August 9, 2018 @Collimatrix Ancient History 101 by Tara Gilesbie Lord_James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted September 5, 2018 Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 American farmers of the southwest supplemented their diet with corn smut. You have, perhaps, heard of huitlacoche, a Mexican dish made from a fungus that attacks corn. It appears that intentional consumption of this fungus goes back a long way, over two thousand years, than that it helped offset amino acid deficiencies of the corn-heavy diet. Sturgeon and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted September 5, 2018 Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 41 minutes ago, Collimatrix said: American farmers of the southwest supplemented their diet with corn smut. You have, perhaps, heard of huitlacoche, a Mexican dish made from a fungus that attacks corn. It appears that intentional consumption of this fungus goes back a long way, over two thousand years, than that it helped offset amino acid deficiencies of the corn-heavy diet. I only knew of corn smut as one of the diseases of maize I had to memorise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted September 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 3 hours ago, Collimatrix said: American farmers of the southwest supplemented their diet with corn smut. You have, perhaps, heard of huitlacoche, a Mexican dish made from a fungus that attacks corn. It appears that intentional consumption of this fungus goes back a long way, over two thousand years, than that it helped offset amino acid deficiencies of the corn-heavy diet. So consuming smut is a healthy activity? And they said I’d go blind and grow hair on my palms! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted September 5, 2018 Report Share Posted September 5, 2018 A cool spear was found https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-atlatl-ice-patches-1.4809947?cmp=rss Quote 'Amazing' archeological find in Yukon's melting ice patches — an intact atlatl dart 'When you have a full, complete spear like that, it really allows people to connect with their heritage' Mogensthegreat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 6, 2018 Report Share Posted October 6, 2018 https://unitedhumanists.com/2018/10/06/ancient-village-discovered-in-canada-is-10000-years-older-than-the-pyramids/ Neat. 14000 year old settlement found on BC coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Archaeologists find 300,000-year old tools in Saudi Arabia https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/archaeologists-find-300000-year-old-stone-tools-in-saudi-arabia/ This is evidence of the last time a Saudi Arabian native has done any sort of manual labor. Toxn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 What appears to be a very large impact crater has been discovered under the ice in Greenland. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46181450 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Boar spear, Austria 1680 149.9 cm, 1,6 kg or 3.5 lb steel, brass, staghorn, leather, wood, and silk velvet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Golden neckpiece from the royal grave at Tolstaja Mogila kurgan. Scythian, Ukraine, 400 BC. Pazyryk Carpet, the oldest known surviving carpet in the world, 5th century BC. Scythian @Collimatrix Are either of these in your Scythian Art book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 Burgonet (2,15 kg: steel, silver and gold, false-damascened, gold-leaf, roped, Germany 1560 French close helmet with a crest in the shape of a dragon, ca. 1630 Gilded helmet of General George Castriot, Italy, ca. 1460 Griffon Bourguignotte by Negroli (c1540-1545) A morion helmet lavishly decorated with historical, mythological, and biblical subjects, including portraits of Alexander the Great and Sabina, wife of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Brunswick, ca. 1560 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_James Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 On 9/13/2016 at 2:53 AM, Belesarius said: HMS Terror found. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/12/hms-terror-from-doomed-franklin-expedition-found.html Slight necro (sorry), but I do have to wonder just how much history or “great finds” have been simply overlooked: like in the article, the guy saw the mast of the Terror but forgot about it when he got home. Just how many times has something amazing like ancient tombs, treasure, or sites have been ignored by people who stumbled upon it, didn’t know what it was, and forgot about it when they went to sleep? ... things that keep me up at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Neat find of a 1st or 2nd Century tombstone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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