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ron 706 posts |
Edited Nov 10, 2015, 22:33
Nov 10, 2015, 19:08
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ran across this interesting article and thot I would share it... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/science/stonehenge-begins-to-yield-its-secrets.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article my apologies if this is something everyone but, me, already had knowledge of... was hoping there might be a bit or a nugget in the article... pedestrian... x x x
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moss 2897 posts |
Nov 11, 2015, 09:26
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ron wrote: ran across this interesting article and thot I would share it... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/science/stonehenge-begins-to-yield-its-secrets.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article my apologies if this is something everyone but, me, already had knowledge of... was hoping there might be a bit or a nugget in the article... pedestrian... x x x All news is welcome, I suspect Jacques and Blick Mead would have the 'controversy discussion', as the future of the long/short tunnel is discussed (endlessly) by those in power.
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Lefturn 22 posts |
Nov 11, 2015, 23:08
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moss wrote: ron wrote: ran across this interesting article and thot I would share it... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/science/stonehenge-begins-to-yield-its-secrets.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&module=MostPopularFB&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article my apologies if this is something everyone but, me, already had knowledge of... was hoping there might be a bit or a nugget in the article... pedestrian... x x x All news is welcome, I suspect Jacques and Blick Mead would have the 'controversy discussion', as the future of the long/short tunnel is discussed (endlessly) by those in power. I don't comment but once every decade on here, so I hope I am allowed a question: can you explain please I'm obviously missing something.
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Lefturn 22 posts |
Nov 11, 2015, 23:11
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In view of comments above people might want to look at 'The Archaeology of Disease', Don Brothwell talks about the high incidence of Spina bifida due to a lack of folic acid in the diet.
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tiompan 5758 posts |
Nov 11, 2015, 23:59
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It seemed to crop up in connection with later bog bodies too , along with disproportionate limbs ,extra vestigial thumbs etc . Irregularities in enamel growth on teeth indicates periods of malnutrition which also seems to crop up throughout Europe . Not often we get the chance to examine soft tissue /organs but oetzi's lungs had large areas of scarred lung tissue associated with inhalation of smoke particles , this must have been the norm ,unless of course he was a heavy smoker .
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moss 2897 posts |
Edited Nov 12, 2015, 08:19
Nov 12, 2015, 07:20
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Lefturn wrote: moss wrote: ron wrote: my apologies if this is something everyone but, me, already had knowledge of... was hoping there might be a bit or a nugget in the article... All news is welcome, I suspect Jacques and Blick Mead would have the 'controversy discussion', as the future of the long/short tunnel is discussed (endlessly) by those in power. I don't comment but once every decade on here, so I hope I am allowed a question: can you explain please I'm obviously missing something. I suppose it was just picking up two news items for me Lefturn....... "Blick Mead site connects the early hunter gatherer groups returning to Britain after the Ice Age to the Stonehenge area, all the way through to the Neolithic in the late 5th Millennium BC. "But our only chance to find out about the earliest chapter of Britain's history could be wrecked if the tunnel goes ahead." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30540914 According to others the Blick Mead site is over a kilometre away from Stonehenge and hardly likely to be affected. Given the visitation by Icomos and Unesco last week, their interest will not necessarily be with the wider landscape though, Stonehenge stone circle sits in its landscape the sole extant visible monument for tourists to see. http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/UNESCO-World-Heritage-chiefs-arrive-Stonehenge/story-28064091-detail/story.html So if you believe the news you read, or put it to one side till the next 'newsworthy' item comes along, they are like waves rolling up to the shore, all important at the time but they slip once more back into the sea. And, if I was to venture an opinion, quite like this bit of news, the tunnel will cost over a billion pounds to build, but there are other options of course...... http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Stonehenge-shouldn-t-going-underground/story-28020775-detail/story.html
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Lefturn 22 posts |
Nov 14, 2015, 08:01
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moss wrote: Lefturn wrote: moss wrote: ron wrote: my apologies if this is something everyone but, me, already had knowledge of... was hoping there might be a bit or a nugget in the article... All news is welcome, I suspect Jacques and Blick Mead would have the 'controversy discussion', as the future of the long/short tunnel is discussed (endlessly) by those in power. I don't comment but once every decade on here, so I hope I am allowed a question: can you explain please I'm obviously missing something. I suppose it was just picking up two news items for me Lefturn....... "Blick Mead site connects the early hunter gatherer groups returning to Britain after the Ice Age to the Stonehenge area, all the way through to the Neolithic in the late 5th Millennium BC. "But our only chance to find out about the earliest chapter of Britain's history could be wrecked if the tunnel goes ahead." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-30540914 According to others the Blick Mead site is over a kilometre away from Stonehenge and hardly likely to be affected. Given the visitation by Icomos and Unesco last week, their interest will not necessarily be with the wider landscape though, Stonehenge stone circle sits in its landscape the sole extant visible monument for tourists to see. http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/UNESCO-World-Heritage-chiefs-arrive-Stonehenge/story-28064091-detail/story.html So if you believe the news you read, or put it to one side till the next 'newsworthy' item comes along, they are like waves rolling up to the shore, all important at the time but they slip once more back into the sea. And, if I was to venture an opinion, quite like this bit of news, the tunnel will cost over a billion pounds to build, but there are other options of course...... http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Stonehenge-shouldn-t-going-underground/story-28020775-detail/story.html Many thanks, that is clear. I thought from your 'news welcome' remark you may have been alluding to a certain archaeologist being estranged from the site. The more Jacques and the site is put under siege the more some "doth protest too much, methinks". Cheers.
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ron 706 posts |
Dec 01, 2015, 02:33
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moss wrote: ...the tunnel will cost over a billion pounds to build... http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Stonehenge-shouldn-t-going-underground/story-28020775-detail/story.html In all due seriousness, this underground tunnel "option" appears to be an absurd, albeit, expensive, supersized "game" of Jenga Please advise at your earliest convenience if I have misconstrued the nature of underground tunnel option.
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moss 2897 posts |
Dec 01, 2015, 09:16
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ron wrote: Please advise at your earliest convenience if I have misconstrued the nature of underground tunnel option. No, we live in a world where people talk 'big' and throw numbers around randomly, and that particularly goes for newspaper articles. By the time any tunnel is built we shall probably be flying around in something totally different. And to quote the last lines of a 'Game of Henge' by Philip Goss "You want out? Good - that's the game. Whichever way you turn are doors. Choose. Step through, so... And whichever world you stumble into will be different from all the others, only what they might have been, you'll never know"
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Lefturn 22 posts |
Dec 01, 2015, 23:56
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ron wrote: moss wrote: ...the tunnel will cost over a billion pounds to build... http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Stonehenge-shouldn-t-going-underground/story-28020775-detail/story.html In all due seriousness, this underground tunnel "option" appears to be an absurd, albeit, expensive, supersized "game" of Jenga Please advise at your earliest convenience if I have misconstrued the nature of underground tunnel option. The country cannot afford to fund an expensive (long) tunnel, equally cannot afford not to find the money in order to protect what needs to be protected. What then to do?
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