Or shelter the non-combatants?
Or what is called a hill fort in the rest of the UK?
A modern re-creation of a hill fort in Wilshire -
Posted on 08/17/2014 1:17:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists hoping to discover Roman and Iron Age finds at a Welsh hillfort were shocked to unearth pottery and arrowheads predating their predicted finds by 4,000 years at the home of a powerful Iron Age community, including flint tools and weapons from 3,600 BC.
Caerau, an Iron Age residency on the outskirts of Cardiff, would have been a battleground more than 5,000 years ago according to the arrowheads, awls, scrapers and polished stone axe fragments found during the surprising excavation.
“Quite frankly, we were amazed,” says Dr Dave Wyatt, the co-director of the dig, from Cardiff University...
“But no-one realised the site had been occupied as far back as the Neolithic – predating the construction of the Iron Age hillfort by several thousand years.”
Oliver Davis, Dr Wyatt’s colleague on the CAER project, says the ditches date from the early Neolithic period when communities first settled and farmed the landscape.
“The location and number of Neolithic finds indicate that we have discovered a causewayed enclosure – a special place where small communities gathered together at certain important times of the year to celebrate, feast, exchange things and possibly find marriage partners,” he believes.
“Such sites are very rare in Wales with only five other known examples, mostly situated in the south.
“What's fascinating is that a number of the flint arrowheads we have found have been broken as a result of impact - this suggests some form of conflict occurred at this meeting place over 5,000 years ago.”
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Or shelter the non-combatants?
Joe it’s like all the old camps on the ranch, when they get back those points that can’t be repaired are discarded.
Mebbe they had an arrowhead 'buyback'
According to every archaeological museum, ancient people lived as hippies in happy peaceful communes up until white man arrived.
They get to thinking they know every thing and then when they find they are wrong they are shocked.
How many other things are there that they might be wrong about that they have every one believing?
Before the White Man showed up the Earth was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.
BALDERDASH.
Humans have fought over land, water, hunting grounds, women, disrespect. Heck, they you KNOW that they fought over who got the biggest piece of meat for dinner, who got the biggest bone-as-a-weapon, who got to "bed" the broad with the biggest chest and butt, who got to eat the best berries...and so on.
Ancient people were no different that we are. They STILL fought. THEY had original sin and THAT is the source of our not-so-nice inclinations.
The ONLY reasons why the hippies were happy and peaceful was because they were always STONED.
But when it came time to buy more "buzz" then, they were agitated, worried, anxious...WANTING their next "fix." You KNOW they forced their "women" to sell themselves for all those ensuing "buzzes."
Abraham Lincoln said: Human behavior can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed.
I agree with you. Most archaeologists, as well as museum curators, tend to be leftist academics and they often project their modern leftist values onto ancient people with laughable results. It’s refreshing to see archaeologists even admit warfare existed back then. Human warfare is the special environmental pressure that drove human intelligence far beyond what was needed to find food and shelter. It has been with us from the beginning. Oh and the Neanderthals, one of the smartest animals ever, didn’t fall off the face of Earth from climate change. They were pushed off by the Cro-Magnons, which are the ancestors of white man. Winning that many thousand year war was probably a big reason why Cro-Magnon descendents later were the only race to ever walk on the moon.
PUL-EEZE, just TRY it; you might even like it.
You DO know what paragraphs are, doncha?? :o)
My husband and I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years...made a fortune. However, Saudi Arabia is a dry country.
The "good ole boys" from all over the south, all engineers with ARAMCO, had stills. When they finally went home, they sold their stills. My dear, sweet husband ran a still and created siddiqi which means "my friend" in Arabic.
50 gallon plastic container
50 gallons of water
50 pounds of sugar
a HUGE can of yeast (sold in town by the Saudis--"lots of cookies, haha")
COOK for three/four days, I think.
Result: five gallons on 180 proof alcohol.
It was cut in half with "sweet" water--an "awl man's" term for potable water. That way, he made 90 proof booze.
NO hangover. The Brits said it made one "legless."
Lol. It did. It made my THIGHS ache. I had the stuff ONCE...and that was enough.
Yes, we did have an A.A. there.
Them are fightin’ words! :-)
Or shelter the non-combatants?
Or what is called a hill fort in the rest of the UK?
A modern re-creation of a hill fort in Wilshire -
“EVERYONE lost.”
Yeah, especially the right to self-government.
Really, the fact that there are ancient war artifacts all over the earth should’ve enlightened the hippies who wanted world peace.
Forget it.
:’) So much for that adjective, eh?
Not only that, the hippies don’t really want world peace, they want the violent overthrow of ‘the establishment’ and imposition of a single party state, where no one has any choice but obedience.
and if they really got that finally, they’d understand the maketh of ancient war artifacts;)
Peace (is) OUT, man...
Nevertheless, I dedicate this somewhat ‘hippy’ song to you;)
Mystic Traveler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYFvNifE9Y
Oh wow, I’d forgotten about that one, hadn’t heard it in decades, and probably not thought about it either. :’)
robin williamson scotland yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85THuC_ljTc
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