"It was real pretty when it was new. I picked it out!"
Somebody had to.
Posted on 10/20/2010 3:13:36 PM PDT by decimon
GENEVA – Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have unearthed a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe.
The ancient poplar wood door is "solid and elegant" with well-preserved hinges and a "remarkable" design for holding the boards together, chief archaeologist Niels Bleicher said Wednesday.
Using tree rings to determine its age, Bleicher believes the door could have been made in the year 3,063 B.C. — around the time that construction on Britain's world famous Stonehenge monument began.
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I know that up in the Sierras there are 4,000 year old living trees, plus standing or lying dead trees; that can get the climate pattern back much further. But not sure how this would apply to Europe, unless they can infer climate patterns from ice cores reliably enough.
In any event, tree rings can give the exact year of harvesting. There are abandoned indian ruins in the west where they know the exact year lumber was cut to support a mud roof. Plus they know the location of where the tree came from; sometimes hundreds of miles away.
"It was real pretty when it was new. I picked it out!"
Somebody had to.
No, I was thinking "Swiss time is standing still" from "Smoke on the Water", Deep Purple.
The door as it originally appeared on the house.
Unhinged.
I’ve built some frame and panel doors and I know how hard it is to get everything to come together ... and stay together. This is really awesome. sd
That would be the perfect door to hit Helen Thomas in the @ss on the way out. :)
They had woodworking tools in 3600 B.C.? And hinges? Okaaayyyyy......
Looks like the kinda door you see in the movies, the one that they tell the babysitter not to open...
Well, what did Noah use to build the ark?
Noah built an ark. That had at least one door....
Why do you find this surprising?
“Solid and Elegant”????
Looks like firewood to me. /s
Ever here a story about some lunatic who built a yacht/cargo ship on the words of some voice he never met.
The dimension were suppose to be 300 cubits by 50 cubits and carry 2 of each animal? /s
Still had a sticker “Made in China”
Did Spock and Kirk jump trough it?
How about the SG1 team?
An old theory has it that doors were invented before walls, and before houses even. Here’s the proof.
That's convincing.
The date the wood was cut can’t be determined, IOW, the RC dates of the rings can (at best) be wiggle-matched against any established data (because there’s annual fluctuations in RC production and absorption) — unless there happens to be an outer ring with the bark attached. Then the year the wood was cut can be determined within the appropriate range of error.
A somewhat younger door was found in Greece some years back — it was still being used as a door, but apparently had been borrowed from an older derelict structure, and before that from an earlier derelict, etc, such that the RC date on the wood was (if memory serves) something like 2000 BC. Again, without a bark layer, it’s not possible to know when the wood was cut. :’)
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