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Archaeologists discover 'finest ever' piece of Neolithic art...3,500BC (Scotland)
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 8-1-2013
| Mark Duell
Posted on 08/04/2013 8:36:09 AM PDT by Renfield
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Excavation: Neolithic man built a vast temple complex at the Ness of Brodgar, with some parts constructed more than 5,000 years ago, even before the Ancient Egyptians had started building the pyramids.
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:36:10 AM PDT
by
Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:36:27 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
Where did these people come from? If they’re there was the surrounding countries i.e Denmark, Norway, Sweden also inhabited then?
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:38:20 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Renfield
It’s not exactly the Mona Lisa... :-)
It is cool, though.
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:39:32 AM PDT
by
Kip Russell
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Renfield
Wow. Diamonds. Baseball fans.
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:40:53 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: All
Related:
Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain (Guardian,UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/06/orkney-temple-centre-ancient-britain
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:43:01 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
I am still convinced that the petroglyphs in Southwestern US were the result of Cave Mom saying to her kids, “Go play in the rocks with the other kids!”
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08/04/2013 8:44:10 AM PDT
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SubMareener
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To: Renfield
You should see what the Egyptians were doing 5000 years ago, or Gobekli Tepe in Turkey long before that. I can’t get too excited about a stone with some straight lines incised on it.
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:45:49 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Renfield
Early argyle?
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posted on
08/04/2013 8:51:00 AM PDT
by
keat
To: keat
Early argyle? Zactly what i was thinking.
Not "art", its a sign for a sock store.
To: Renfield
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posted on
08/04/2013 9:16:33 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: Renfield
So no one has claimed it as a Neolithic mosque yet?
Clearly an oversight. Someone acted stupidly.
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posted on
08/04/2013 9:21:23 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Kip Russell
Its not exactly the Mona Lisa... :-) It is cool, though.Probably some kid doodling before his folks cuffed him upside the head and told him to get back to the survival tasks...
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posted on
08/04/2013 9:24:03 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: Renfield
Here is a picture of what is believed to be a priests garment:
To: blueunicorn6
First recorded case in history of “tagging” with graffiti? Little Gronk got a big spanking for that one.
To: Renfield
Temple? This is Scotland. It’s a Neolithic distillery.
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posted on
08/04/2013 9:58:01 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: Renfield
In the first photo, that big “N” at the top stands for “NEOLITHIC”.
;^)
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posted on
08/04/2013 10:50:29 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: SkyDancer
Where did these people come from? If theyre there was the surrounding countries i.e Denmark, Norway, Sweden also inhabited then?People most likely followed the retreating glaciers into the newly habitable lands. When sea levels rose, those in England/Scotland and Ireland were cut off until they created seaworthy watercraft.
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posted on
08/04/2013 10:54:06 AM PDT
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JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: blueunicorn6
No..........I think those are primitive playing cards. They didn’t have paper yet. That’s the deuce of diamonds they’ve found. Can’t wait to see the whole deck. No wonder so many of those people, especially poker players, had hernias.
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posted on
08/04/2013 11:15:41 AM PDT
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Tucker39
To: SubMareener
You beat me to it. All these finds remind me of an old Readers’ Digest story about future archaeologists finding a temple with a guy worshipping a big square thing. Turns out it was some guy in a hotel room watching tv.
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posted on
08/04/2013 11:20:48 AM PDT
by
bgill
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