Jantje van Speulde: a skeleton, unearthed from a burial mound near Speulde, thought to be from 1500 BCE. Source:RACM (National Service for Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Built Landscape)
Posted on 07/23/2007 9:28:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Burial mounds are often 4000 to 5000 years old, they are visible to everyone and curious recreationists ask questions about them; questions the council are unable to answer as the research on burial mounds has for a number of decades been at a standstill... Fontijn: "Apeldoorn contains the oldest burial mounds in the Netherlands. The first were constructed in 3000 BCE. Added to this, the conservation conditions are good." What does Fontijn expect to unearth? "Definitely not only skeletons. In earlier excavations, weapons, jewellery and other objects were found. I am also curious about what we will find in the direct vicinity of the mounds. House remains would be an indication that the mounds were built on top of settlements; the houses of the deceased above the houses of the living. During the earlier excavations, rows of poles were also found in the vicinity of the burial mounds. They may have marked processional routes."
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Jantje van Speulde: a skeleton, unearthed from a burial mound near Speulde, thought to be from 1500 BCE. Source:RACM (National Service for Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Built Landscape)
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Yah! What YOU said!
love ya man.
I prefer the geologic term Cocacolazoic Era. Since that will be the majority content of the depositional formations that will be extant from out time.
our time rather
So noted on July 7th, in the 2007th year of our common era.
Wow.
Not being a Christian, I just read it as Before the Common Error.
;)
Joke from sedimentology class.
Telling it is better than bottlin’ it up.
In case you ever have to give a presentation, that joke would make a good opener.
I thought it was “Before Clinton Ejac..”
naaaaahhh....
Whatever for?....;o]
It wasn’t entirely successful anyway...
David Fontijn: 'There is a strong public interest in knowledge about burial mounds.'
LOL!
Some days it goes like that!
Look at this guys face. He really doesn’t want his picture taken, lol.
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