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Ancient 'Cow Woman' Skeleton Called Bizarre
Discovery News ^ | Thu Jun 28, 2012 | Rossella Lorenzi

Posted on 07/03/2012 2:33:16 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

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To: DogByte6RER

It was probably just a beloved pet or companion, so they decided to bury it with her, and have a BBQ at the same time...


21 posted on 07/03/2012 3:24:00 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: DogByte6RER
The skeleton of the 1400-year-old Anglo-Saxon woman buried alongside a cow.

That's bad English; it means the woman was 1400 years old when she died and they buried her with a cow. It should read "The 1400 year old skeleton of a woman buried with a cow..."

22 posted on 07/03/2012 3:41:02 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: Sacajaweau

LOL! 1789, that was the year that one of my ancestors emigrated from Pendleton County to Harrison County in Virginia (now West Virginia). You could have put his name on it.

I think it would be fun to buy some of those cheap, made in China, flint arrow heads that they sell in cheesy souvenier shops and toss them around historical sites.


23 posted on 07/03/2012 3:41:33 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Inyokern

A loving husband buried his wife and her mother in the same plot.


24 posted on 07/03/2012 4:03:00 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: DogByte6RER

None of you have any imagination. The woman was wealthy, and had made some power plays in the village that her rival didn’t like. So some spoiled milk was made a part of of some tragedy, probably food poisoning, and the milk was traced back to the cow, and the cow belonged to the woman, so the cow and the woman were buried alive to punish the “witchcraft.” And in that way, the dead woman’s rival was able to pass the first EPA milk safety laws that eventually led to Britain rejecting football for soccer, gutting their navy, and letting the Muslims install sharia law.


25 posted on 07/03/2012 4:09:01 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Bovinacea?


26 posted on 07/03/2012 4:14:58 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: DogByte6RER

When the milkmaid died, nobody else wanted to take care of that cow.


27 posted on 07/03/2012 4:17:28 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Thane_Banquo

Yes. Good for her! She’s FINALLY achieved her “15 seconds of fame!”.


28 posted on 07/03/2012 4:30:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: Thane_Banquo

Yes. Good for her! She’s FINALLY achieved her “15 seconds of fame!” (Good things come to them that waits)


29 posted on 07/03/2012 4:31:32 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: DogByte6RER

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12986792
This is her g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-gg-
granddaughter


30 posted on 07/03/2012 5:00:18 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Cowgirls rule!.)
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To: DogByte6RER; SunkenCiv

... for your consideration. Hugs, Mom


31 posted on 07/03/2012 5:23:56 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: DogByte6RER

its called COWPOX /s


32 posted on 07/03/2012 5:38:50 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: DogByte6RER

DNA tests show that the woman is a direct ancestor of Rachel Madcow.


33 posted on 07/03/2012 8:29:31 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DogByte6RER

Maybe she screwed up somehow and got the family cow killed.

This is a message to the other cow herders not to mess up.

Pretty effective I’d say. We are talking about it thousands of years later.


34 posted on 07/03/2012 10:21:42 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just hate our government. All of them. Republican and Democrat.)
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To: momtothree; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks momtothree.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


35 posted on 07/04/2012 5:26:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Vermont Lt
"This is a message to the other cow herders not to mess up. "

Yeah, little missy.

You're going with the next cow in your care that dies.

36 posted on 07/04/2012 5:35:46 AM PDT by blam
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To: AD from SpringBay

LOL!


37 posted on 07/04/2012 5:54:25 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

The only person who didn’t think it bizarre was mooch-elle (who felt somehow oddly attracted to it).


38 posted on 07/04/2012 6:00:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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39 posted on 07/04/2012 6:04:38 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: caveat emptor
A Boudica-like woman - That was my first thought, too.

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/16/7857-boudica_large.jpg

40 posted on 07/04/2012 6:09:35 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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