Posted on 02/21/2011 11:52:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A recent excavation led by archaeologist George Nash in November 2010 at the Trefael Stone in south-west Wales - originally a portal dolmen transformed in later times in a standing stone - has revealed a small assemblage of exotic artefacts including three drilled shale beads, identical to those found at a nearby Early Mesolithic coastal habitation site.
These items, each measuring about 4.5 centimetres in diameter, were found within a disturbed cairn or post-cairn deposit...
Similar perforated shale beads have also been found at a number of other sites including Manton Warren (Humberside), Newquay (Cardiganshire), Star Carr (Yorkshire) and Staple Crag (Co. Durham). Beads of other geological types have also been found at the upland mid-Wales site of Waun Fignen Felen, made from spotted mudstone and single finds from coastal locations at Freshwater East, Linney Burrows and Palmerston Farm, Pembrokeshire. Two perforated beads, one made of stone, the other from oyster shell has also been found in the Isle of Man...
The provenance of the Trefael beads is interesting in that the beads from the Nad Head site are dated to roughly the 9th millennium BCE (within the range of radiocarbon dates taken from hazelnuts) and the Trefael site is Neolithic, a period between the two sites of around 5,000 years.
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Some of my former bosses had mesolithic heads; a couple (a few profs, too) had megalithic heads.
Most of the rest, it was impossible to see their heads...butt I strongly suspect they had brown hair. ;-)
Some of my former bosses had mesolithic heads; a couple (a few profs, too) had megalithic heads.
Most of the rest, it was impossible to see their heads...butt I strongly suspect they had brown hair. ;-)
They used to throw the beads at each other instead of pinging them.
If I had any loose beads, I’d throw them at you.
I am especially good at ducking electronic flingings.
We follow Klingon mating rituals here.
It’s often hard to tell the difference between aggression and lust.
I don’t speak Klingon.
You do? Good thing there’s a whole state between us!
Thanks steveno.
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