Barbarians Get Sophisticated (Nebra "Sky Disk")

US News ^ | 11-16-2003 | Andrew Curry

[blam]

I think I have a picture of the "Sky Disk" somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.

[blam]

Nebra Sky Disk

[jocon307]

"[A]n elaborately decorated gold "hat," 29 inches tall and made out of over a pound of thinly beaten gold....the object...was worn by Bronze Age astronomer-priests and that the decorations are actually an extremely complex solar-lunar conversion calendar."

Ancient origin of tin-foil hattery?

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Haaail, yew shur that's whut they say it is? Looks t'me lak a pimply smily-face geek, fer sher.

[cake_crumb]

Impressive. Thanks for the post.

[miltonim]

lol!!!

[Cicero]

this is the first accurate picture of the cosmos in human history

It's a very interesting find indeed, but I find this remark very silly. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look up at the sky and notice that there is a sun, a moon, and the stars, or to depict them as stylized images.

This doesn't disprove that the Bronze Age tribes in Germany did astronomy, in the sense of mathematical calculations, but it doesn't prove it, either.

Presumably, some degree of astronomical calculation is necessary for any society that needs to know when to plant crops. But the Sumerian astronomers were well beyond anything that can be proven from this object.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There you go thinking again.

[pabianice]

More than coincidence?

[metesky]

"Where the heck did I put that old sky disk?" - Homer

[FreetheSouth!]

Thanks as always for the great post.

[per loin]

This hat?

[blam]

"This hat?"

Don't know. I looked around for a picture and couldn't find one.

This hat looks similar to the felt hats found with the Caucasian mummies found in the Tarim Basin in China.

[per loin]

Or this one?

[Dark Wing]

fyi...it looks like Steve Stirling's Nantucett books struck closer to home than he realized.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Those pilfering Huns did a whole lot of sacking down Rome way, could have been a trophy from one of their raids.

But I do know the Huns were well advanced beyond certain Freepers who lurk here abouts. No tin foil hats for them Huns, they had gold ones. (:>)

[Petronski]

[Boot Hill]

blam's article sez:   "In the plate's center is a representation of the star cluster Pleiades..."

Pleiades

Oh yeah, blam, dead ringer for Pleiades, LOL! Looks more like someone's imagination has gotten the better of their common sense!

I don't get it, blam, this is not the first time you've posted this kind of Art (Bell) nouveau, astronomical pseudo-science. What's up with that?

--Boot Hill

[Tuba-Dude]

Presenting the oldest smiley face known to man...

[blam]

"I don't get it, blam, this is not the first time you've posted this kind of Art (Bell) nouveau, astronomical pseudo-science. What's up with that? "

Lighten up a little. If you'll check page 34 of the December edition of Scientific American you'll find essentially the same article. Art Bell? Don't know. I post'em you decide.