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Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge discovered by badger
BBC ^
| February 9, 2016
| unattributed
Posted on 02/13/2016 12:59:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Edited on 02/13/2016 1:43:15 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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A Bronze Age cremation burial has been discovered near Stonehenge after being accidentally dug up by a badger.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; stonehenge
Badger Discovers 4,000-Year-Old Archer's Burial [Archaeology mag]
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posted on
02/13/2016 12:59:34 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Copper chisel...nice piece
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:02:05 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:02:15 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
"I approve of this posting"
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:04:39 PM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: SunkenCiv
*YOU* asked for it! ;)
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:05:09 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:07:34 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: bigbob
**We don't need no stinkin' badgers**
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:08:00 PM PST
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Daffynition
(*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
To: SunkenCiv
accidentally dug up by a badger.
Wow, an archaeological team from Wisconsin. Who would have thought........
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the ping, cool stuff. Too bad the ground squirrels around here can’t do something constructive with their holes.
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:15:14 PM PST
by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: Hot Tabasco
Good thing. A Wolverine would have chewed up everything and then pissed all over the remains so no one else could use it :).
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:25:16 PM PST
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katana
(Just my opinion)
To: katana
A Wolverine would have chewed up everything and then pissed all over the remains so no one else could use it :).
And a buckeye would have never even made it over there..........:)
To: Hot Tabasco
Oh, we do get around.
https://greekarchaeology.osu.edu/arch-edu/excavation
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posted on
02/13/2016 1:44:42 PM PST
by
katana
(Just my opinion)
To: SunkenCiv
At first, I thought of the dumbass from Breaking Bad: Badger.
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posted on
02/13/2016 3:04:59 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: SunkenCiv
My Dog is a digger and has dug up 2 really nice bottles for me, he was very proud of them when he gave the to me, still don’t know which hole they came from, he digs so many.
The really amazing thing is that he “Knew” I would want these bottles and was so proud to “sort of” give them to me.
(He just plops them next to his water bowl)
Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century cork top medicine bottles.
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posted on
02/13/2016 3:51:35 PM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: SunkenCiv
Potsherd caption:
"Claw marks can be seen on bits of the pottery"
Really? I see rows of decorative punctations, made in the semi-dry body prior to firing -- but not a trace of "claw marks"...
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02/13/2016 6:40:25 PM PST
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TXnMA
("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the article -- and the link to the Amesbury burial!
That is a nice copper chisel! (BTW, the flared shape is a natural outcome of the proper technique for sharpening a copper tool:
Grinding copper to an edge leaves soft copper exposed; hammering ("cold forging") the copper to an edge both sharpens it and hardens it.
I use hammering to shape the copper tips I use in my "Ishi Stick" pressure flaker, and on the copper "percussion notching punches" I use to save wear on their antler and cannon-bone counterparts, while practicing...
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posted on
02/13/2016 6:58:42 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
To: Hot Tabasco
...accidentally dug up by a badger....
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Well, I think it’s speciesism to assume that the badger did this accidentally. Perhaps he was doing deliberate archaeological research.
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02/14/2016 8:14:13 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Keep calm and Pray on.)
To: TXnMA
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02/14/2016 8:29:34 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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