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Porcupine unearths 1,400 year old oil lamp at archaeological site in Emek Hefer
Jerusalem Post ^ | March 23, 2015 | JPost staff

Posted on 03/27/2015 9:58:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered a 1,400 year-old ceramic oil lamp with the help of an unlikely aide – a porcupine.

Last week, during a routine patrol at the Horbat Siv ancient ruins – a Roman-Byzantine site near Emek Hefer in central Israel, anti-antiquities theft inspectors found the oil lamp on top of a pile of dirt that a porcupine had unearthed while digging a burrow.

Porcupine’s live in underground burrows that can stretch to as long as 15 meters.

Ira Horovitz from the anti-antiquities theft unit of the IAA said that “the porcupine is an excellent archaeologist, a relentless digger... It often happens that porcupines dig their burrows at the site of archaeological digs... he skillfully throws the dirt aside, and with it whatever archaeological findings are in his path.”

IAA researchers inspected the ceramic piece and the other findings that the porcupine uncovered, realizing that the findings provided information on the time frame in which people inhabited the ancient site.

“The IAA calls on all porcupines to avoid digging burrows at archeological sites and warns that digging at an archeological site without a license is a criminal offense,” the Antiquities Authority jested.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: emekhefer; godsgravesglyphs; israel; porcupine; porcupines
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To: SunkenCiv

Was it still lit?


21 posted on 03/27/2015 10:58:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Michael.SF.
The government United Nations will probably take it away from the critter that found it.

There, I fixed it.

22 posted on 03/27/2015 11:00:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Michael.SF.

That’d be a prickly situation.


23 posted on 03/27/2015 11:39:15 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: woodbutcher1963
Yeah, but it foolishly wished for balloons.


24 posted on 03/27/2015 11:46:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.wimp.com/porcupinepuppy/


25 posted on 03/27/2015 11:55:58 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: outofsalt

I guess we all know about Old King Coel...


26 posted on 03/27/2015 12:06:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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This group would have driven Moe Howard to drink. ;') Thanks all!

27 posted on 03/27/2015 12:13:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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28 posted on 03/27/2015 12:16:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Wish number One:

29 posted on 03/27/2015 12:18:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DannyTN
Said porcupine was the worst thing he ever ate. You had to boil it for hours.

Yeah. Otherwise it has a real sharp, kind of prickly, taste.

30 posted on 03/27/2015 12:18:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: SunkenCiv

Kewl, I have one very much like it from Roman times.
I used to do work for a antiquities dealer and often
traded out.


31 posted on 03/27/2015 12:19:05 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Nice!


32 posted on 03/27/2015 12:26:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: SunkenCiv

33 posted on 03/27/2015 12:29:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: tet68

It was awesome, I used to make museum stands for him,
his house was a museum in itself, artifacts from
basement to attic. I got a few nice things but
that didn’t pay the bills so had to move on.
Got some Tsubas, indonesian spear points, some
colombian pottery and a few african items which
were what h3e maninly specialized in.


34 posted on 03/27/2015 12:30:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: DannyTN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fine

> In many of the Stooge shorts, Fine did more reacting than acting, staying in the background and serving as the voice of reason in contrast to the zany antics of Moe and Curly. He was easily recognized by his hairdo, bald on top with lots of thick, bushy, curly hair around the sides and back for which Moe would often call him “Porcupine”


35 posted on 03/27/2015 1:20:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL porcupine tie in, excellent!


36 posted on 03/27/2015 1:26:48 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Always ask for more Jeannies....especially that one.


37 posted on 03/27/2015 1:27:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Well, I am a wise guy.


38 posted on 03/27/2015 1:28:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Off-topic of 1400 old oil lamps and porcupines but on topic for discoveries and Three Stooges...

Did you ever see Shemp’s lost surrealist film?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQbGsOVHGoU

(yes I know it’s somebody else’s edit)


39 posted on 03/27/2015 2:44:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Porcupine thought it was junk and threw it out. Arabs do the same thing, for different reasons.

40 posted on 03/27/2015 3:17:20 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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