Archaeologists shocked to find 5,000-year-old battlefield in prehistoric Cardiff

Culture24 ^ | 11 August 2014 | Ben Miller

[BenLurkin]

a causewayed enclosure – a special place where small communities gathered together at certain important times of the year to celebrate, feast, exchange things and possibly find marriage partners

Or shelter the non-combatants?

[Dusty Road]

Joe it’s like all the old camps on the ranch, when they get back those points that can’t be repaired are discarded.

[Smokin' Joe]

Either that or there is a reason Pelosi, Sarah Brady, Feinswine, etc. look so old...

Mebbe they had an arrowhead 'buyback'

[Reeses]

When have humans NOT fought?

According to every archaeological museum, ancient people lived as hippies in happy peaceful communes up until white man arrived.

[ravenwolf]

They get to thinking they know every thing and then when they find they are wrong they are shocked.

How many other things are there that they might be wrong about that they have every one believing?

[dfwgator]

Before the White Man showed up the Earth was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

Good. I've got nine gallons of it fermenting right now, actually eight gallons of mead and one gallon of pear mellomel. It should be ok by about Christmas... I hope.

[cloudmountain]

According to every archaeological museum, ancient people lived as hippies in happy peaceful communes up until white man arrived.

BALDERDASH.

Humans have fought over land, water, hunting grounds, women, disrespect. Heck, they you KNOW that they fought over who got the biggest piece of meat for dinner, who got the biggest bone-as-a-weapon, who got to "bed" the broad with the biggest chest and butt, who got to eat the best berries...and so on.
Ancient people were no different that we are. They STILL fought. THEY had original sin and THAT is the source of our not-so-nice inclinations.

The ONLY reasons why the hippies were happy and peaceful was because they were always STONED.
But when it came time to buy more "buzz" then, they were agitated, worried, anxious...WANTING their next "fix." You KNOW they forced their "women" to sell themselves for all those ensuing "buzzes."

Abraham Lincoln said: Human behavior can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed.

[Reeses]

I agree with you. Most archaeologists, as well as museum curators, tend to be leftist academics and they often project their modern leftist values onto ancient people with laughable results. It’s refreshing to see archaeologists even admit warfare existed back then. Human warfare is the special environmental pressure that drove human intelligence far beyond what was needed to find food and shelter. It has been with us from the beginning. Oh and the Neanderthals, one of the smartest animals ever, didn’t fall off the face of Earth from climate change. They were pushed off by the Cro-Magnons, which are the ancestors of white man. Winning that many thousand year war was probably a big reason why Cro-Magnon descendents later were the only race to ever walk on the moon.

[cloudmountain]

PARAGRAPHS are our friends.

PUL-EEZE, just TRY it; you might even like it.
You DO know what paragraphs are, doncha?? :o)

[cloudmountain]

Good. I've got nine gallons of it fermenting right now, actually eight gallons of mead and one gallon of pear mellomel. It should be ok by about Christmas... I hope.

My husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years...made a fortune. However, Saudi Arabia is a dry country.

The "good ole boys" from all over the south, all engineers with ARAMCO, had stills. When they finally went home, they sold their stills. My dear, sweet husband ran a still and created siddiqi which means "my friend" in Arabic.

50 gallon plastic container
50 gallons of water
50 pounds of sugar
a HUGE can of yeast (sold in town by the Saudis--"lots of cookies, haha")
COOK for three/four days, I think.

Result: five gallons on 180 proof alcohol.
It was cut in half with "sweet" water--an "awl man's" term for potable water. That way, he made 90 proof booze.

NO hangover. The Brits said it made one "legless."
Lol. It did. It made my THIGHS ache. I had the stuff ONCE...and that was enough.

Yes, we did have an A.A. there.

[Reeses]

Them are fightin’ words! :-)

[az_gila]

a causewayed enclosure – a special place where small communities gathered together at certain important times of the year to celebrate, feast, exchange things and possibly find marriage partners

Or shelter the non-combatants?

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Or what is called a hill fort in the rest of the UK?

A modern re-creation of a hill fort in Wilshire -

[dsc]

“EVERYONE lost.”

Yeah, especially the right to self-government.

[colorado tanker]

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

[Beowulf9]

Really, the fact that there are ancient war artifacts all over the earth should’ve enlightened the hippies who wanted world peace.

Forget it.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) So much for that adjective, eh?

Not only that, the hippies don’t really want world peace, they want the violent overthrow of ‘the establishment’ and imposition of a single party state, where no one has any choice but obedience.

[Beowulf9]

and if they really got that finally, they’d understand the maketh of ancient war artifacts;)

Peace (is) OUT, man...

[Beowulf9]

Nevertheless, I dedicate this somewhat ‘hippy’ song to you;)

Mystic Traveler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYFvNifE9Y

[SunkenCiv]

Oh wow, I’d forgotten about that one, hadn’t heard it in decades, and probably not thought about it either. :’)

robin williamson scotland yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85THuC_ljTc