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The Archaeology Thread
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
August 11, 2022 at 11:19 pm
(August 11, 2022 at 2:35 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Ah, but they don't anticipate how much it will suck

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Looks like a Star Trek communicator.
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
August 17, 2022 at 12:52 pm
Other way around. Star Trek debuted three years later.
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#143
RE: The Archaeology Thread
September 13, 2022 at 4:01 am
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#144
RE: The Archaeology Thread
September 17, 2022 at 12:28 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2022 at 12:31 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Apparently evidence has been uncovered for successful surgical limb amputation of lower leg carried out 31000 years ago by hunter gatherers in Borneo.   Bone growth at the site of amputation show patient lived for a considerable time after the amputation.    

Previously it was believed complex surgery techniques only developed after settled farming communities have developed.     The ability of a ambulatory hunter gatherers community in highly mountainous area to execute such surgical operations and then nurse a mobility impaired patient through recovery was previously unexpected.

When you see Valkyrie slashing off limbs, remember she is only upholding one of mankind’s most ancient and hallowed traditions.   And benefitting from 31000 years of technological progress, she would not botch the job so thoroughly that the patient actually live to grow new bones,
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#145
RE: The Archaeology Thread
September 17, 2022 at 12:49 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2022 at 12:51 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
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#146
RE: The Archaeology Thread
October 31, 2022 at 5:10 am
Hipparchus Star Map Found Under Christian Text

Quote:Scholars have long known about Hipparchus’ star catalog because other ancient texts made references about it – but their searches for the document itself were unsuccessful.

“The newly discovered text is a remarkable breakthrough that highlights the creative use of multispectral imaging technology to read previously lost texts,” Brian Hyland, the museum’s associate curator of medieval manuscripts, said in the release. “It also attests to the accuracy of Hipparchus’s measurements.” 

Careful analysis showed that the ancient parchment was reused multiple times – like old-school recycling.

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RE: The Archaeology Thread
October 31, 2022 at 9:14 pm
(October 31, 2022 at 5:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Hipparchus Star Map Found Under Christian Text

Quote:Scholars have long known about Hipparchus’ star catalog because other ancient texts made references about it – but their searches for the document itself were unsuccessful.

“The newly discovered text is a remarkable breakthrough that highlights the creative use of multispectral imaging technology to read previously lost texts,” Brian Hyland, the museum’s associate curator of medieval manuscripts, said in the release. “It also attests to the accuracy of Hipparchus’s measurements.” 

Careful analysis showed that the ancient parchment was reused multiple times – like old-school recycling.

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recycling genuine knowledge to make doggerel.
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#148
RE: The Archaeology Thread
October 31, 2022 at 9:19 pm
(October 31, 2022 at 9:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(October 31, 2022 at 5:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Hipparchus Star Map Found Under Christian Text


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recycling genuine knowledge to make doggerel.

‘Doggerel’ refers to poetry.

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#149
RE: The Archaeology Thread
October 31, 2022 at 10:42 pm
(October 31, 2022 at 9:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 31, 2022 at 9:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: recycling genuine knowledge to make doggerel.

‘Doggerel’ refers to poetry.

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Must be blank verse, then.  Hehe
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
November 22, 2022 at 8:32 pm
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The Bell Of The Doomed Freighter The Edmund Fitzgerald




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