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Archaeologists to explore feasting habits of ancient builders of Stonehenge
Culture24 ^
| Monday, December 21, 2009
| Culture24 Staff
Posted on 12/23/2009 6:29:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The team who worked on the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 are to return to their findings to explain the eating habits of the people who built and worshipped at the stone circle over four thousand years ago... the new 'Feeding Stonehenge' project will analyse a range of materials including cattle bones and plant residue... Initial research suggests the animals were brought considerable distances to the ceremonial site.. The original Stonehenge Riverside project, which strengthened the idea that nearby Durrington Walls was part of the Stonehenge complex, yielded a surprisingly wide range of material ranging from ancient tools to animal remains... "One of the unforeseen outcomes (of the Stoneheng Riverside Project) is the vast quantity of new material - flint tools, animal bones, pottery, plant remains, survey data, and chemical samples - which now needs analysing," explained Professor Parker Pearson... A large collection of cattle jaws collected during the last few years' excavations will now undergo strontium and sulphur isotope analysis to establish where they originally came from and when they were culled. This will give experts a better idea of where people had travelled from to visit the site... Researchers will also try and ascertain whether Britain's Copper Age started 50 years earlier than first thought. Circumstantial evidence points to copper tools being in use at Durrington Walls earlier than originally thought. Cut-marks on animal bones should reveal whether they were made by copper daggers as opposed to flint tools.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ancientautopsies; animalhusbandry; archaeoastronomy; britain; dietandcuisine; durringtonwalls; england; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; megaliths; stonehenge; unitedkingdom
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:29:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:33:00 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: SunkenCiv
First in with a Spinal Tap reference!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:34:48 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:48:39 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: The Comedian
After blazing saddles and airplane one of the funniest movies of all time..
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:53:07 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(These are the times that try men's souls.)
To: SunkenCiv
The original Beef Eaters? Well at least they weren’t poaching the King’s deer.
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posted on
12/23/2009 6:54:56 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe they invented bangers and smash.
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posted on
12/28/2009 1:15:45 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: colorado tanker; blam
And ironically, dentistry. I mean, c’mon, it’s so obvious — Stonehenge is a gigantic representation of a healthy set of choppers, and the entire complex surrounding that previously enigmatic monument was clearly devoted to dental care.
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posted on
12/28/2009 7:08:58 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: BIGLOOK
if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
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posted on
12/28/2009 7:11:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: SunkenCiv
It's going to take me a while to figure that one out.....Happy New Year, SC......or as we say here..
Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
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posted on
12/28/2009 7:46:54 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: SunkenCiv
Initial research suggests the animals were brought considerable distances to the ceremonial site.. Maybe it was an ancient cattle market...or a really small rodeo arena.
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posted on
12/28/2009 7:52:39 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others.)
To: SunkenCiv
ROBIN: Ah. W-well, actually I am a Knight of the Round Table.
ALL HEADS: You're a Knight of the Round Table?
ROBIN: I am.
LEFT HEAD: In that case I shall have to kill you.
MIDDLE HEAD: Shall I?
RIGHT HEAD: Oh, I don't think so.
MIDDLE HEAD: Well, what do I think?
LEFT HEAD: I think kill him.
RIGHT HEAD: Well let's be nice to him.
MIDDLE HEAD: Oh shut up.
LEFT HEAD: Perhaps-
MIDDLE HEAD: And you.
LEFT HEAD: Oh quick get the sword out I want to cut his head off!
RIGHT HEAD: Oh, cut your own head off!
MIDDLE HEAD: Yes, do us all a favor!
LEFT HEAD: What?
RIGHT HEAD: Yapping on all the time.
MIDDLE HEAD: You're lucky. You're not next to him.
LEFT HEAD: What do you mean?
MIDDLE HEAD: You snore.
LEFT HEAD: Oh I don't -- anyway, you've got bad breath.
MIDDLE HEAD: Well its only because you don't brush my teeth.
To: BIGLOOK
We just hum “The Girl from Ipanima”.
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posted on
12/30/2009 8:38:59 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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posted on
08/18/2019 11:41:08 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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