[blam]

"Archaeologists think the hoard may have been buried as an offering to the gods."

Nah. They were hidden anticipating and attack?

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Thommas]

10 inches in soil? 4 inches long and 2 inches wide? Uh-oh.

The British metric bobbies are gonna lock these guys up pronto..

[BenLurkin]

Archaeologists think the hoard may have been buried as an offering to the gods.

I have a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and if you ask me they were stolen and somebody wanted to hide the loot.

Guess I should have pursued a graduate degree -- that way I would have known to apply the traditional "for religious purposes" analysis.

[TaMoDee]

Yup, you’re right. An anti-2d Amndt leader was on the slate.

[Kirkwood]

It would not surprise me if these 2 guys get charged with possession of assault weapons.

[ARE SOLE]

How come every story about Hillary Clinton or Rosie O'Donnell unfortunately has pictures. Yet these cool historical stories rarely have pictures. It just aint right.

Good post though.

Regards

[Grizzled Bear]

Someone tell Helen Thomas her lost razor blades have been found.

[RobinOfKingston]

Archaeologists think the hoard may have been buried as an offering to the gods.

Definitely buried to keep assets away from the foundry owner's wife during a nasty divorce.

[Migraine]

Archaeologists think the hoard may have been buried as an offering to the gods.

Your response beat mine and is right on the mark. Of course archaeologists and anthropologists usually want to minimize the warlikeness of primitive folk; they think modern conservatives are the first to hold that distinction. However, war was seldom absent in those days. The obvious here is that axes, while tools, can be used as weapons. The burying of a mass of them can be nothing except an attempt to deny them to an enemy that is about to overrun the tribe.

[theBuckwheat]

Or hidden in anticipation of a Bronze Age ban on Assault Weapons. Prudent people even today consider 40 acres and a shovel when faced with similar attitudes by government.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Archeologists are such dorks! They always assume that finds have something to do with lofty thoughts about man, God and the Universe—when all human history tells us the main things Man cares about are the three ‘S’s...sleep, substenance, and sex.