carol27
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Re: Teenage builders
Feb 28, 2017, 22:20
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tiompan wrote: spencer wrote: Do not discount the possibility that some stones may have been erected because there was a 'certain type of mushroom' in the vicinity, the consumption of which produced 'magical' consequences at a place. They are not here to ask, and nothing can be ruled out. When was the first law, hence illegality or taboo? We simply do not know.
If nothing can be ruled out because we can't ask, then the negation of any possibility is equally applicable . i.e .do not discount the possibility that the stones were erected because of the absence of certain types of mushroom ,or , do not discount the possibility that the stones were not erected in some areas due to the presence of certain types of mushroom , or, do not rule out the possibility that the presence or otherwise of certain types of mushroom had no influence at all of the choice of site where stones were erected .
Open season does not get us very far without some support for the possibilities .
I've no idea about mushrooms or whatever, although there was a time in my youth..but we'll not go there, ahem, many accidents. I'm just thinking about this being a "young" culture in terms of how we think now & how that might have been. Anyway ..bamboozled:)
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carol27
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Re: Teenage builders
Feb 28, 2017, 23:38
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And this lactose tolerance stuff; are we talking about breast milk? Am I missing the point?
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tiompan
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Re: Teenage builders
Feb 28, 2017, 23:50
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I' m certainly all in favour of free thinking , as it is usually defined , but offering a proposition with nothing to support it other than suggesting that nothing can be ruled out is not free thinking .
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spencer
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Re: Teenage builders
Feb 28, 2017, 23:52
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Ahh.. The Sacred Bamboo Groves of Angus... Marvellous.
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spencer
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Re: Teenage builders
Feb 28, 2017, 23:54
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What is this 'Dad's Army' of which you speak?
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Evergreen Dazed
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Edited Mar 01, 2017, 00:16
Re: Teenage builders
Mar 01, 2017, 00:08
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carol27 wrote: And this lactose tolerance stuff; are we talking about breast milk? Am I missing the point?
Cows.
Breast milk fine for most children but as they grow older can become lactose intolerant.
Many people in certain parts of the world today do not have tolerance to lactose.
Europeans (speaking v generally) have the enzyme required to break it down.
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moss
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Re: Teenage builders
Mar 01, 2017, 05:53
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"And of course, " teenagers" are a luxury item:)"
On a lighter note: Have you ever met the Bronze Age teenager in her short mini skirt.....
http://www.livescience.com/50911-bronze-age-danish-burial.html
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tiompan
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Re: Teenage builders
Mar 01, 2017, 08:02
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moss wrote:
There is a classic pic from Kristian Kristiansen & Thomas B. Larsson's .
The rise of Bronze Age society : travels, transmissions and transformations .
Of the same stuff modeled , it may well have resulted in an increase in interest among teenage boys in the subject .
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tjj
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Re: Teenage builders
Mar 01, 2017, 17:23
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An interesting discussion. No one has brought up the role of pubescent girls though. I wonder ... helping their mothers with other children, gathering food, grinding grain. As well as becoming mothers themselves, probably somewhere between thirteen and fifteen. I wonder if they were treated as chattels to be traded or, on reaching womanhood (menstruation) were they treated with value. A mother's milk would have been precious as the only way to nourish infants so if the mother was hungry, not producing milk, the baby would die of hunger. Tragically, we see it happen today.
By coincidence I just came across this article - it doesn't tell us anything we don't already know but worth a little read.
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/02/where-were-all-the-women-in-the-stone-age/114274
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