He died shouting "haggis!".
Reconstruction from the 4,000-year-old skull found in 1879 [George Mair/Saltire News]
Posted on 11/09/2017 11:46:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A skeleton found 138 years ago in Stirling has been identified as a Bronze Age farmer who worked the land more than 4,000 years ago.
The discovery makes the man the earliest known resident of the ancient capital of Scotland.
The farmer, who died in his twenties, has been nicknamed "Torbrex Tam", after the area of Stirling in which he was found.
Tam's facial reconstruction has been carried out by a forensic artist to discover what he would have looked like.
The remains were found in 1879 when workmen digging for gravel hit the slabs of a stone-lined cist.
The bones were given to the Smith Museum in Stirling for safekeeping, while the cairn -- the oldest structure in Stirling -- is now surrounded by houses.
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Reconstruction from the 4,000-year-old skull found in 1879 [George Mair/Saltire News]
The poor bastard. They are probably still taxing his farm. Taxes probably killed him. That’s the British way!
Not long ago, I saw an article, probably some cooking website, about vegetarian haggis, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
Someone may have tried it, but money wouldn’t be invented for thousands of years. Offer the tax man haggis as payment in kind, he won’t be back.
Pretty clean shaven for 4,000 years ago.
And his bones were sent to the Smith Museum for safe keeping.
The world’s first golfer and the first to have been born with “white privilege”!
Shaving is not a new invention. People who lived thousands of years ago are drawn with facial hair because that’s how many “artists” represent them, not because they all had full facial hair. In some climates, facial hair protects the skin.
Any one who could make a razor sharp cutting tool or had access to ocean beach shells could have shaved, and likely did.
I know, just having fun with it. ;-)
This picture looks so much like my father and our ancestors came from Scotland in the 1780’s. Amazing!
Wow, what a hunk!
Not a bad-lookin’ guy!
Aye- even 4000 years ago the Scots were a fine specimen of man!
"Robert Stirling was a Scottish minister who invented the first practical example of a closed cycle air engine in 1816, and it was suggested by Fleeming Jenkin as early as 1884 that all such engines should therefore generically be called Stirling engines."
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