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hi i was a puple in the school and left in 1966 my teacher was called mr wood are there any guys and girls still about from mr woods class IE andrew perrit david clutterbuck jean hedges and many more.
This is a wonderful documentary! I would really like a documentary which explained the technology/skills needed to achieve this level of technical and cultural achievement!
Archeologists are so romantic, they used cremated bones in pottery to act as a flux and glass former., it´s called bone ash and it is still used today on porcelain, glazing, etc...
When religious belief fights our undeniable archeological history, we all loose any sense of reality, and repeat horrible behavior. Wake up to the fact that all religious belief is a deadly cancer on humanity.
Lots of 21st century assumptions: "appeasing" the river. "Proving your social status by throwing your most precious possessions in the river". "Possessions " is itself an assumption. The cartoon showed only males working. Etc etc etc.
The Minoans had running water and flushing toilets 4000 years ago. The women went topless too. Not a bad shout for an ancient time/place to live. I hope the simulation re-spawns me there next time around.
In my experience working in archaeology, I found that trash deposits were places where the truth is to be found with little bias compared to buildings, shelters, and, especially, literary evidence.
The late paleolithic, copper and bronze ages released so much lead, copper, and other metals into the air that it left observable layers in arctic ice bores. Poisoning from arsenic was quite common before tin was substituted in bronze alloys. Later, cities like Rome were well known to be encased in clouds of pollution from fires, smelting, forges, cookfires, as well as from sewage. One could see and smell the city's pollution far before reaching it. There were borders. They weren't as clear cut as lines on maps, they were mostly formed by natural boundaries like rivers and mountains and the like. Even then, there existed maps which clearly show bordered regions. Human history is nothing if not warring across borders. In fact, this is one of the key motivators for technological development. All of this is well-documented, not only by contemporaneous accounts, but also by modern research.
Excellent! I worked at Runnymede as a volunteer in 1984 and 1985, fascinated to see the videos of the excavation and some faces I haven't seen since, brought back a lot of memories. The experience of working there had a big impact on me, I've worked in archaeology ever since and the approach used influenced some of my work.
We are only beginning to piece together these curiosities, imagining it’s people and interpreting their struggles but particularly so as cultures intermingled to perhaps share ideas. We have of course a universal language uniquely identifying our species, when water, food warmth and shelter, overcomes our instincts to defend, just as our inquisitive nature chase’s away our shyness, helping us realise, that actually it’s possible to get along, well sometimes.
That was great! Bronze Age people collected old stuff just like we do. That blew me away. We’re the same. Thank you so much for that insight. All the best from Washington State.
A place to watch the spring tides come up through London. A time of refreshing the land by their gods . kind of a Harvest festival of the river as we go to watch the Severn Bore travelling along...
19. Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was Zillah. 20. Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the first of those who raise livestock and live in tents. 21. His brother’s name was Jubal, the first of all who play the harp and flute. 22. Lamech’s other wife, Zillah, gave birth to a son named Tubal-cain. He became an expert in forging tools of BRONZE and IRON. (Genesis 4: 19-22). 4000 BC.
The Ankerwycke Yew -possibly England's oldest - has been suggested by some to have been the Axis Mundi of local tribes and real site of the signing of Magna Carta much later, it stands on the opposite bank near Magna Carta Lane. on public land. There's some evidence the Thames may have changed shape and the Tree was once on an 'island' on the river. I have no idea of the true historicity of this but the living tree at least 2-3000 years old is a site to behold. Meanwhile on the other side of the river where MC is commemorated there's nothing of interest particularly.
I just took the My Bronze Age Origins test (Gene Plaza) and found out that I was 14% ancient Hebrew, the people of the Bible. I never knew I was Israelite, but I guess I should have known because I was always curious about the bible stories and always felt part of the people of the bible. Now I have proof. I have also 22% Chongoni Rock art , which fits with my ancestry because I am a quarter black. Just a warning, don’t get the beginner test, it’s cheaper but it doesn’t have the ancient people of the Bible.
England and Wales and for that matter Scotland didn't exist in the Bronze age they evolved over hundreds of years after the Romans left Britain thousands of years later. To mention these country's during the Bronze age is putting them and the Bronze age into a false context. It makes you wonder what else is put into a false context by people not being able to get out of the box of putting things into a modern context.
