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Bronze Age farmer Tam is earliest known Stirling resident
The Times ^
| November 2 2017
| unattributed
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; bronzeage; godsgravesglyphs; scotland; scotlandyet
He died shouting "haggis!".
Reconstruction from the 4,000-year-old skull found in 1879 [George Mair/Saltire News]
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posted on
11/09/2017 11:46:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
11/09/2017 11:46:49 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
The poor bastard. They are probably still taxing his farm. Taxes probably killed him. That’s the British way!
To: SunkenCiv
He died shouting "haggis!"
Maybe he died from eating haggis.
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posted on
11/10/2017 12:04:02 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: Enchante
Not long ago, I saw an article, probably some cooking website, about vegetarian haggis, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
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posted on
11/10/2017 12:29:31 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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.
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posted on
11/10/2017 12:35:57 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
Pretty clean shaven for 4,000 years ago.
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posted on
11/10/2017 2:19:00 AM PST
by
LiveFreeOrDie2001
( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
To: SunkenCiv
And his bones were sent to the Smith Museum for safe keeping.
Seems to me his bones were pretty safe in the ground. Not sure I want to end up in a cardboard box on a shelf.
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posted on
11/10/2017 2:35:00 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: SunkenCiv
The world’s first golfer and the first to have been born with “white privilege”!
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posted on
11/10/2017 2:53:28 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
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.
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posted on
11/10/2017 3:11:08 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
I know, just having fun with it. ;-)
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posted on
11/10/2017 3:17:04 AM PST
by
LiveFreeOrDie2001
( Thank GOD Hillary didn't get elected!)
To: SunkenCiv
This picture looks so much like my father and our ancestors came from Scotland in the 1780’s. Amazing!
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posted on
11/10/2017 4:55:43 AM PST
by
jch10
(I STAND FOR MY COUNTRY, MY FLAG, AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.)
To: SunkenCiv
Reconstruction from the 4,000-year-old skull found in 1879 [George Mair/Saltire News]
He looks like Kurt Warner.
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posted on
11/10/2017 5:33:30 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/10/2017 6:08:13 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/10/2017 6:26:30 AM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: SunkenCiv
Aye- even 4000 years ago the Scots were a fine specimen of man!
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posted on
11/10/2017 6:46:54 AM PST
by
ClearBlueSky
(ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
To: SunkenCiv
I'm reminded of the
Stirling Engine"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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posted on
11/10/2017 10:33:43 AM PST
by
blam
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