All the glass used in the beads found at Must Farm travelled considerable distances from their places of manufacture, which was probably what is now IranCambridge Archaeological Unit
Posted on 03/31/2024 9:16:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The glass used to create beads discovered at a prehistoric settlement dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" was probably made in Iran, analysis has revealed.
The finds were among a wealth of well-preserved items unearthed at a burnt-out 3,000-year-old village at a quarry in Whittlesey, near Peterborough.
Amber, shale, siltstone, faience and tin beads were also discovered...
The remains of a settlement of about 10 circular wooden houses on stilts built above a river was discovered by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit between 2015 and 2016.
Believed to be home to 50 to 60 people, the cause of the fire that destroyed it in 850BC is unknown. The settlement and its contents were preserved because it fell into silt in the river...
This included "by far the largest find of glass beads from any Late Bronze Age context in Britain," according to Dr Sheridan and co-author Julian Henderson.
They contributed to the necklace and beads report as part of the post-excavation analysis published by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Prof Henderson, an expert in ancient technologies at Nottingham University, concluded the glass used to create 48 of the beads most probably came from Iran, while the glass from the 49th bead originated from Egypt.
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All the glass used in the beads found at Must Farm travelled considerable distances from their places of manufacture, which was probably what is now IranCambridge Archaeological Unit
Wonder how much human DNA was left with the original natives in that area?
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I hate glass beads.
Fossil Fecal DNA
It’s just as likely that the seagoing trade was conducted by them, with various intermediaries. Bead trade began a very long time ago, using local or traded-for materials like lapis lazuli.
DNA and language:
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Hey, what bronze age couples did in the privacy of their own huts was their own garsh-darned business.
You have to learn when to tell her no.
Thanks for a fascinating link:
By “much darker skinned” what they actually mean is akin to olive-skinned Mediterranean types, rather than pale blond-haired or ginger Nordic types.
Our family’s olive skinned darker color came supposedly from a Greek female slave, who became the wife of a Brit Sea Captain, who settled in what is now N.C..
Somehow, some west African Black DNA also, got into our total DNA package @ about the same time.
Genealogy generally leads to some surprises. Having the DNA done will often leads to surprises, particularly among black supremacists. YouTube’s got firsthand testimonials of the latter. :^)
Really awful reporting and scholarship. That is not Iranian, it is Persian.
They people who made them would call themselves, “Persian”
The bronze age site is given its modern name as well, oh no!
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