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Ancient monkey painting suggests Bronze Age Greeks travelled widely
New Scientist ^
| December 11, 2019
| Michael Marshall
Posted on 02/04/2020 1:46:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira, Santorini: Wall painting of grey langur monkeys at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) [Milan Gonda/Alamy]
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02/04/2020 1:46:16 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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Akrotiri was a settlement of the Minoan civilisation in Bronze Age Greece that was buried by ash from a volcanic eruption in around 1600 BC.
IOW, one of *those* topics.
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02/04/2020 1:47:26 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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02/04/2020 1:47:30 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Tell the truth, did you only click on this link because of the word “wildly” ?
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02/04/2020 1:49:08 PM PST
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GulfMan
To: SunkenCiv
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02/04/2020 1:49:24 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe the monkeys traveled widely.
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02/04/2020 1:49:27 PM PST
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rfp1234
To: SunkenCiv
The ancient Cretans drove their 4x4’s all the way to India. So I’m told
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe ... it means monkeys traveled widely back then.
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02/04/2020 1:51:45 PM PST
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DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: SunkenCiv
A Bronze Age painting on a Greek island shows a monkey from thousands of kilometres away in Asia.
Wouldn’t it have been incredibly tiny from that far away?
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02/04/2020 1:51:55 PM PST
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe there used to be monkeys in Greece?.........Have people never heard of Greece Monkeys?.......................
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02/04/2020 1:52:40 PM PST
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Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: SunkenCiv
...aw, geez, your Uncle Spiros isn't going to sit us down after dinner and make us look at his cave paintings of his trip to the Indus Valley again, is he?
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02/04/2020 1:52:44 PM PST
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Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: tet68
Monkeys were bigger back then................
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02/04/2020 1:53:26 PM PST
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Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: SunkenCiv
Those are possums.
You cant swing a Spartan in Greece without hitting a possum.
Turns out that possums really like olives.....in their martinis.
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02/04/2020 1:53:32 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SunkenCiv
Well, one could argue that Alexander the Great covered / visited much of the known world.
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02/04/2020 1:56:11 PM PST
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taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
To: Red Badger
I’ll bet that’s a tail you tell everyone.
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02/04/2020 1:56:53 PM PST
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/04/2020 1:58:05 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/04/2020 2:00:07 PM PST
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redshawk
( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
To: SunkenCiv
Some of those s shaped tails look like a c to me.
Maybe those were monkeys who didnt win the spelling bee.
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02/04/2020 2:02:16 PM PST
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: SunkenCiv
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02/04/2020 2:03:44 PM PST
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DannyTN
To: Red Badger
On behalf of grease monkey’s everywhere, you should be ashamed.
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02/04/2020 2:05:14 PM PST
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yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
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