Discovery Of Ancient Site Stuns Experts (Scotland)

Edinburgh News.com ^ | 8-1-2003 | Michael Howe

[blam]

ping (No GGG)

[tet68]

Fossilized Haggis FOUND!

[bets]

probably tastes the same as 1 hr old Haggis......

[StatesEnemy]

Excarnation, now there's an idea....

Rather than the flesh be consumed by worms, let it be devoured by the jackal and the vulture - at least it's higher up on the food chain....

[aruanan]

But the most exciting and unexpected find was evidence of a previously unknown settlement at Phantassie, near East Linton.

Phantastic. And to think we owe this discovery to the predations of modern man and his technology.

[JerseyHighlander]

It needs a highway of A1 to make it edible.

[tet68]

Phantassie

Isn't that the town Kipling wrote about?

"The town that voted the world was flat."

Hehe. Great story by the way.

[tet68]

One wonders..........where do all the "STUNNED EXPERTS" go??
Do they just shake it off over time, or is there counseling?
Group Hugs?

[curmudgeonII]

I don't know how you keep coming up with these interesting posts, but please don't stop.

[SES1066]

... a dual-carriageway ...

Pardon me PLEASE but I cannot resist the following; Exactly how many carriages will be using this dual-carriageway? As has been stated many times elsewhere, Anglish is not quite Amglish is not quite Auglish is not quite Canglish etc. Mr.Carlin has long since twitted us on our habit of parking in driveways and driving on parkways but still I smile when I think of a lorry with a bonnet on a dual-carriageway!

[cricket]

excarnation. . .what Uday and Qusay deserved.

As for the 'have's and have-nots' of this ancient society; the 'wheel of life' continues to turn. . .

Wonder if they had Liberals back then. . .suspect not!

[blam]

"I don't know how you keep coming up with these interesting posts, but please don't stop."

Thanks. Here's another for today:

Ancient Cities Discovered in Yangtze Valley

[prisoner6]

I LIKE haggis...

prisoner6

[Highway55]

"are already predicting it will tell them much about early civilisation in the Lothians region."

aka . . . Lothar of the Hill People. (SNL)

[farmfriend]

OOps, didn't see the No in time, sorry.

[TXnMA]

LIKE haggis...

So do I -- especially when it's been "blessed" with a splash of Drambuie... And I also enjoy the ceremony -- at the annual Robbie Burns dinner with our (Macpherson) clansmen.

[patton]

ilike haggis...

You guys are disgusting.

Lochiel MacEdward na sliabh dun na cloinn MacEdward...

[LibKill]

The ancient recipe for haggis was immediately classified 'top secret'.

[Question_Assumptions]

A copper alloy pike, used for ceremonial occasions was also found together with funeral urns thought to be 3500 years old.

As I recommended in a recent thread, you should read Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization (you can read the preface on Amazon.com for free, I think). He talks about how the myth of a peaceful prehistory has led archaeologists to call many weapons found in burrials "ceremonial" even if they are quite functional as weapons. If the Moche hadn't left their carnage behind for the archaeologists, I have little doubt that they'd be calling the human sacrifices depicted on their pottery as "symbolic" and the actual knives and weapons used, which they have actually found, "ceremonial".