[Rastus]

It's undeniably a representation of the night sky. Unless the maker was listening to too much Dio, he wouldn't be depicting a rainbow here.

[wizardoz]

Looks like stages of the moon to me. I don't see any rainbow.

[JimSEA]

"It certainly has more of a rainbowy feel to it."

What a relief that good, hard science is yet being done in the British Isles. Where is the part where the researcher/theorist acknowledges that the last five whisky and sodas were not really a good idea.

LOL Merry Christmas to you and yours Blam -- and All.

[aruanan]

Or a comet.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Was it found on the bumper of an ancient minivan, with a phony "hatred is not a family value" sticker, with two mommies in the van?

[theFIRMbss]

>may show the world's earliest known depiction of a rainbow . . .

I just realized we have all been wrong! Clearly this image was made very skillfully by a bronze-age Picasso who had mystically had a time-forward vision of Anna, and then re-created it using the abstract image elements his time could make sense out of . . .

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

The celestial disk is an indication of pre- Columbian contact by Ancient Meso-Americans.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
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[broadsword]

Oh, brother! When did scientific scepticism DIE?

[Physicist]

I'm disappointed. No wisecracks about this being the work of "early Homo" or "Homo erectus?"