Posted on 09/05/2020 7:33:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Though open to interpretation, the bronze disk appears to depict the moon, stars and possibly the sun.
A duo of archaeologists from Goethe University Frankfurt and Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich took a fresh look at where and how the disk was discovered. The disk was found during an illegal excavation in 1999 near Nebra, Germany, along with a trove of Bronze Age items, including swords and jewelry. If the disk's age matched that of the other items, it would be about 3,600 years old.
A release from Goethe University this week calls out the "vague information given by the looters." The researchers put on their detective hats, investigated the circumstances of the find and concluded that "the Sky Disk cannot belong together with the other finds which seemed to facilitate the dating of the world-famous object in the first place."
The archaeologists said the artifacts supposedly found with the disk are not strong enough evidence to date the piece to the Early Bronze Age. Instead, the researchers suggest the disk's motifs are a match for the Iron Age, making it 1,000 years younger than assumed.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Bad link.
Fifteen years ago, a German already suggested it was a hoax. I think the experts are still out on this one.
I find it provocative that the illuminated side of the crescent moon is opposite the sun rather than on the same side. One would think that someone observant enough to notice the Pleiades would be familiar with which side of the moon the sun was on?
One more thing our witless chillin know nothing about. It’s a hubcap! This one is right up there next to stick shifts! AN ALIEN TECH!
Yeah,,,those names on the disc date much later than the bronze age...
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Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:
Thanks BenLurkin.
Nebra Sky Disk Could Be Younger than First Thought
Sep 4, 2020 by News Staff / Source
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/nebra-sky-disk-08816.html
The Nebra sky disk. Image credit: Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0.
http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge7/image_8816e-Nebra-Sky-Disk.jpg
It’s nice to feel young again!
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Just an observation. The so called “primitive” people who made instruments like these relied on them to regulate such vital timing as planting, or gathering and laying up stores for winter. They may have also used them for timing celebrations or festivals worshiping the gods. Therefore they display remarkable accuracy. Anything less would be useless. Modern fakes tend to feed into the notion that the primitives couldn’t make basic astronomical observations, and seem to me to be deliberately “crude”.
So what does it signify?
Looks like a hoax to me.
At this point, it'll take something older to get that reaction from me. :^) It's not very large, but it appears to have been nailed on the edge, probably a shield boss or something like that..
I looked on Etsy, and they have one as a jar opener. Cleverly cute, but I wouldn’t use it to open jars. I’d probably put it in an embroidery hoop and hang it on a wall by my desk. Something cool, anyway. But a JAR OPENER?? *sheesh*
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Certainly Chaldean astronomers of the Second Millenium B.C. had a far more sophisticated knowledge of astronomy than most college graduates today, but that doesn’t seem to affect their vacuous chronological snobbery.
Big Dipper & Pleiades are on the same side of the sky; draco is opposite. Also, the dipper's handle curves the opposite direction from the bowl; and the bowl is less lozenge shaped. Lyra is also a better fit
The Nebra sky disk is a bronze disk of around 32 cm (12.6 inches) diameter and a mass of 2.2 kg, having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols.
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