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[feralimal]

Box of donated artifacts turns out to be treasure trove of Neanderthal bones

Back in the late 1970s, amateur paleontologist Miguel Aznar uncovered a vast assortment of artifacts and bones outside of a cave called Cova Simanya, which is located in a park just outside of Barcelona. Aznar cleaned the materials and gave them a cursory inspection and then dumped them all together in a box. He then put them in a storage bin at his home, where they stayed until 1986; the year he donated the box to the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, where it sat unexplored until 2020.

Keep an eye out in your local park.

To more accurately place the original location of the bones from the box, the researchers went to the mouth of the cave as described by Aznar and looked for more of them. In so doing, they found a wisdom tooth that had once belonged to one of the individuals whose bones were found in the box. That allowed the research team to definitively tie the rest of the bones in the box to the same dig site.

The wisdom tooth 'definitively tied the rest of the bones to the dig site'.

The research team notes that the bone collection also represents the most significant discovery of Neanderthal bones in the region, and perhaps the entire Iberian Peninsula.

A very significant box of bones!

I would really have liked a picture of the box though..

 

[ViniB]

The muslim supremacists strike again.....

 

[usselo]

In The Guardian (and one or two other papers), Cat Bohannon urges readers to re-think human evolution.

In How women drove evolution: Cat Bohannon on her radical new history of humanity, she asks: did evolution have a helping hand?

At each stage, Bohannon makes clear just how unlikely human survival has been - due to our narrow pelvises, huge heads, needy babies and hungry brains.

Bohannon suggests smart, small-headed midwives and gynaecologists were the first to survive our birth-canal bottlenecks. They then helped the bigger-headed rest of us pull through.

An entirely reasonable proposition.

However, the article doesn't urge us to re-think the 'evolution takes a long time' part of evolution:

...200 Million Years of Evolution

...200m years later

...for millions of years

...anatomically modern humans for a mere 300,000 (years)

So readers won't consider the possibility that human product designer Theodor Kerckring also helped women get around our enormous heads:

Movable skull plates made of soft bone. Source: Theodor Kerckring​

Kerckring proposed cranial crumple zones. His key insight was that humans were more likely to believe in evolution if their brains were mashed during birth.

OK, that's not true. He realised brains would recover quickly if the brain's life-critical components were placed in the centre and protected by the many folds of the cerebral cortex. A soft crumple zone within a bony crumple zone.

His 17th century innovation was inspired by his study of plate tectonics:

Only a man could have such a cracked idea. Source: Theodor Kerckring​

Bigger human heads were part of our design team's response to Baruch Spinoza's call for smarter humans. Spinoza made that call in Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect). That the effort was ultimately successful is evidenced by the subsequent (18th century onwards) creation of back-stories designed to fill the historical gap that would have been visible to new, smarter humans. In Dating the Intelligent Pig, I've summarised some of the evidence for history being a back-story.

This need for a back-story is the real origin of the problems we call 'Stolen History'.

The portraits of author Katy Guest and Cat Bohannon were just one of many sly jokes also stuffed into that Guardian article.

Speaking of orbs: Researchers Find World’s Oldest Time Capsule From 1726 in Bulb of Church Spire—Here’s What's Inside

For those of us who wonder why builders went to the trouble of shoving big copper bulbs near the top of churches etc, it's unfortunate the article had very little to say about the bulb itself:

Source: Epoch Times
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The article presents the orb as a repurposed time capsule. Leaving readers to ponder on details like how, why, and what else was going on around the building and its curious copper orb.

 

[ViniB]

So, a bog head. But wait, i tought said bogs would preserve skin and flesh....
Also, that hair knot looks weird, like if someone made it on purpose to fit some narrative.

 

[trismegistus]

How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing? Scientists are unlocking their secrets

This reverse engineering has turned up a surprising list of ingredients that were mixed into old buildings — materials such as tree bark, volcanic ash, rice, beer and even urine. These unexpected add-ins could be key to some pretty impressive properties, like the ability to get stronger over time and “heal” cracks when they form.

They skipped blood, but I digress.

Now, scientists think they’ve found a key reason why some Roman concrete has held up structures for thousands of years: The ancient material has an unusual power to repair itself. Exactly how is not yet clear, but scientists are starting to find clues.

In a study published earlier this year, Admir Masic, a civil and environmental engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposed that this power comes from chunks of lime that are studded throughout the Roman material instead of being mixed in evenly. Researchers used to think these chunks were a sign that the Romans weren’t mixing up their materials well enough.

Those stupid Romans got it right on accident!

Some of these ancient builders might have just gotten lucky, said Cecilia Pesce, a materials scientist at the University of Sheffield in England. They’d toss just about anything into their mixes, as long as it was cheap and available — and the ones that didn’t work out have long since collapsed.

“They would put all sorts of things in construction,” Pesce said. “And now, we only have the buildings that survived. So it’s like a natural selection process.”

I love when unexplainable tech is automatically associated with "getting lucky" or having it be an accident. Heaven forbid they may have just had a clue about engineering quality products.

Today’s builders can’t just copy the ancient recipes. Even though Roman concrete lasted a long time, it couldn’t hold up heavy loads: “You couldn’t build a modern skyscraper with Roman concrete,” Oleson said. “It would collapse when you got to the third story.”

Maybe I'm just uninformed but I don't think modern construction can handle that much concrete, either. Aren't most skyscrapers built with steel frames? Surely they're not entirely concrete. Glad to see they're paying this person to have a qualified opinion, either way.

Isn't another simple explanation for this phenomenon that these structures simply aren't as old as these idiots say it is? Sure its impressive that the Pantheon is 2k years old, but if its only 1000 its still impressive but slightly less so.

 

[Broken Agate]

"The discovery of this ceramic water pipe network is remarkable because the people of Pingliangtai were able to build and maintain this advanced water management system with stone age tools..."

"Ceramic water pipes" and "Stone Age tools" don't go together. You can't just throw clay into a campfire and get ceramic, it's a whole process that Stone Age societies wouldn't have had, at least if we believe the narrative that we all had to memorize in grade school. What use would they even have had for water pipes? I thought they got everything they needed from hunting and gathering.

 

[Frostychud]

I read about the following cemetery on a recent trip to West Virginia. Unfortunately, I was unable to visit the place myself. From the book "Dark Tourism":

Or maybe the half-buried gateless wall was already there, and wasn't a "wall" at all. If so, this must be one of the silliest cover stories for a found old-world remnant. Anyone been there?

 

[Broken Agate]

https://observer-reporter.com/news/...cle_6c91ca3b-b184-5abf-99a5-7be79d0bfa43.html

The wall is only four feet high. Can't the ghosts go right over it? I wonder how they know it goes only three feet below the surface. I bet nobody has dug underneath to find out, and they just made that up.

 

[ViniB]

https://observer-reporter.com/news/...cle_6c91ca3b-b184-5abf-99a5-7be79d0bfa43.html

The wall is only four feet high. Can't the ghosts go right over it? I wonder how they know it goes only three feet below the surface. I bet nobody has dug underneath to find out, and they just made that up.

This wall looks a lot like the Hadrian Wall, similar construction & shape and an equally dubious narrative

 

[Jd755]

https://observer-reporter.com/news/...cle_6c91ca3b-b184-5abf-99a5-7be79d0bfa43.html

The wall is only four feet high. Can't the ghosts go right over it? I wonder how they know it goes only three feet below the surface. I bet nobody has dug underneath to find out, and they just made that up.

I watched the video first.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5oTR1VF_N0


Then found this site History of the Restoration Movement
Which contains this information.

The visitor gains entrance to the Campbell Cemetery by stone steps placed on either side of a wall that encircles the grounds. The wall of hand-hewn stone is seven feet high - three feet beneath the ground and four above. Stone for the wall was purchased from a grist mill operator located on Buffalo Creek. Construction was supervised by Col. Alexander Campbell in fulfillment of a request contained in his celebrated father's will. The wall and steps, in contrast to a gate that could be left open or unlatched, kept grazing animals from straying onto the grounds.

I would argue its seven feet deep on the down slope and likely another couple into the slope to support the weight of the wall and to stop the soil continuing its journey down the incline. In the video when the camera goes to the 'h' corner the wall is just above ground level on the cemetery side and the ground level on the other side is several feet lower as evidenced by the trees.

 

[trismegistus]

Heartbreaking reason why there's a secret pyramid on Charles’ Balmoral estate

The granite-made monument was erected in 1862 by Queen Victoria following the passing of her beloved husband in 1861, and it measures 41 feet by 41 feet at the base.

The first pyramid to be erected by the royal family had happier memories.

It was the “Purchase Cairn”, and was made after Prince Albert purchased the estate for Queen Victoria in 1852.


The couple had a hands-on role in the construction, and helped to place the first stones.

The other cairns were created to celebrate the marriages of Queen Victoria’s children, including Princess Royal, Prince Albert Edward, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.

I know that when it comes to the royal family there is no price too high for reverance, but the pyramid does strike me as a strange choice for memorial. From a bird's eye view it doesn't appear to look ancient per se, and the chances of finding "construction" photos are slim to none considering this was done on a private estate away from public eye.

However, it stands to reason that there is always a reason places like Balmoral estate are built where they are built so the question I have is - what came first? The estate or the cairns?

 

[ProfessorHotStuff]

It was the “Purchase Cairn”, and was made after Prince Albert purchased the estate for Queen Victoria in 1852.

The couple had a hands-on role in the construction, and helped to place the first stones.

Nothing unusual here. Just the totally normal Western practice of inaugurating a property purchase with pyramid construction for memorial and funerary purposes with your wife.

Not to talk about myself but over time, as we have become more sophisticated real estate investors, my wife and I have constructed ever more elaborate pyramids as we've purchased properties. Are you suggesting this is uncommon?

But seriously, the elite fancy-pants cargo cult behavior just gets sillier and sillier the more you learn about it.

 

[ViniB]

Here we go again! Another extremely well preserved "roman" discovery, on a hidden cave at the top of a mountain...... with a coin of the kochba revolt in it!!!!

Local government: how fake can you .make a discovery?
Archeologists: yes

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/ei...ur 1,900,Judean Desert Nature Reserve, Israel.

 

[feralimal]

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Here we go again! Another extremely well preserved "roman" discovery, on a hidden cave at the top of a mountain...... with a coin of the kochba revolt in it!!!!

Local government: how fake can you .make a discovery?
Archeologists: yes

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/ein-gedi-swords-12256.html#:~:text=Archaeologists have found four 1,900,Judean Desert Nature Reserve, Israel.

“The hiding of the swords and the pilum in deep cracks in the isolated cave north of ‘Ein Gedi, hints that the weapons were taken as booty from Roman soldiers or from the battlefield, and purposely hidden by the Judean rebels for reuse,” said Dr. Eitan Klein, one of the directors of the Judean Desert Survey Project

It could also be that someone (neither Roman or Jew) found them and put them aside. Or that a Roman put them there. Or that they were placed there more recently. Or any other wild possibility. So many hints.

“We will try to pinpoint the historical event that led to the caching of these weapons in the cave and determine whether it was at the time of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132-135 CE.”

I reckon their effort won't be naught, and that they will pinpoint it to "the time of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132-135 CE".

“At the entrance to the cave, a Bar-Kokhba bronze coin from the time of the Revolt was found, possibly pointing to the time when the cave served for concealing the weapons,” they said.

The evidence is all falling into place..

 

[Frostychud]

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Here we go again! Another extremely well preserved "roman" discovery, on a hidden cave at the top of a mountain...... with a coin of the kochba revolt in it!!!!

Local government: how fake can you .make a discovery?
Archeologists: yes

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/ein-gedi-swords-12256.html#:~:text=Archaeologists have found four 1,900,Judean Desert Nature Reserve, Israel.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Our world is disintegrating at a frightening rate, with people becoming stupider by the minute. The upside of this is that the history forgers themselves are becoming dumber. Thanks to the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which blinds them to their own ineptitude, they are undoing all the subtle artistry of their genius predecessors and revealing the generational con to anyone who can maintain their IQ over room temperature. All we have to do is sit back and watch them auto-destruct. Given the arrogance of the deceivers, which has a corrosive effect on the mind, I think it's possible that they are actually getting stupider faster than we are, which is really saying something.

The oily, hammy stage smile of the bearded deceiver alone is enough to reveal this find as a fake. The woman's smile looks authentic, duper's delight I guess. Freemason orange shirts and gloves. They should quit while they're ahead.

 

[ViniB]

Well, it's a literal (alledged) piece of "viking" shit...... tbh, i woudn't be able to make this up, so congrats to everyone behind this one '-'

 

[ProfessorHotStuff]

with a coin of the kochba revolt in

That would be like finding Blackbeard's flintlock pistol along with a Blackbeard commemorative plate

Paleoscatologists

My university didn't offer this degree track, did yours?

 

[Gladius]

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The oily, hammy stage smile of the bearded deceiver alone is enough to reveal this find as a fake. The woman's smile looks authentic, duper's delight I guess. Freemason orange shirts and gloves. They should quit while they're ahead.

Those are field workers of the Israeli Antiquity body, who normally wear orange which is globally common for archeology workers.
Nothing "deceiving" about his smile, that's how Middle Easterns can look smiling after hard work, which he seem to have done by his clothes.

Is it difficult to assume that the sword was genuinely found in a cave but its dating/analysis is wrong? Or does every poor employee has "to be on it"?

 

[Frostychud]

Those are field workers of the Israeli Antiquity body, who normally wear orange which is globally common for archeology workers.
Nothing "deceiving" about his smile, that's how Middle Easterns can look smiling after hard work, which he seem to have done by his clothes.

Is it difficult to assume that the sword was genuinely found in a cave but its dating/analysis is wrong? Or does every poor employee has "to be on it"?

We should of course be wary of projecting too much. One man's stage smile is another man's authentic grin. Point taken.

My logic -- the state of Israel is unique in that it derives its legitimacy exclusively from claims made in a handful of old texts. Mutatis mutandis, such a state will have the greatest incentive to forge history, and must therefore be held to the highest possible standards of proof.

Considering that the entire conceit of this website is that history, and especially ancient history, and extra-especially ancient history found in religious documents and almost nowhere else, has been...stolen...not just lost but actively stolen, I find it eminently logical to apply the strictest hermeneutic suspicion to any claims made by such an entity to archaeological finds, especially those that (1) resonate suspiciously with current events and could indeed be interpreted as justifying the entire current casus belli, and (2) happen to include a bonus artifact that conveniently dates the find and allows it to be correlated with a galvanizing legendary event. Under circumstances such as these, which can be considered the most fertlie possible ground for the production of a Daily Fake for propaganda purposes, which after all is the theme of this thread, I tend to assume that anyone involved is probably a deceiver until proven otherwise, down to the people digging the stuff out of the ground. After all, stolen history implies the existence of active history thieves. (Of course, were I in charge of the fake, I would not inform the ground-level diggers that the hoard had been buried beforehand to guarantee maximum verisimilitude in front of the cameras.)

The danger of tarrying with a hermeneutics of suspicion is that we always risk slipping into rank paranoia and confirmation bias. Archaeology orange magically becomes Freemason orange and regular smiles become oily smiles. Your criticism is heeded.

Regarding the implicit suggestion that my comment has a racist component, I can say only that I do not wish to promote stereotypes, and bear no animus or prejudice toward any individual Middle Easterners, Israeli or other. I just thought the guy's smile looked fake, and still do.

 

[Frostychud]

Here's a good one.

2000-Year-Old Substance Unearthed at Ancient Roman Sites Possesses “Extraordinary” Properties - The Debrief

Scientists have unearthed something remarkable at several ancient Roman archaeological and construction sites, revealing artifacts coated in a naturally formed substance with unique modern technological potential.

Fragments of ancient Roman glass vessels, having shattered long ago and left beneath the accumulation of earth over time, are known to possess striking, colorful surfaces that result from their exposure to minerals in their soil covering, along with changes in temperature and other environmental conditions they encounter over the centuries.

Now, scientists have learned that the fragments, which have been used in the creation of modern jewelry over the years due to the vivid tapestry of iridescent tones they showcase, offer much more than just beautiful colors that capture the human eye.

Engineering professors Fiorenzo Omenetto and Giulia Guidetti at Tufts University’s Silklab and their colleagues say they have learned that the molecular structure of these tiny Roman glass shards become rearranged over thousands of years, resulting in the formation of what physicists call photonic crystals.

Photonic crystals are tiny nanostructures possessing ordered arrangements of atoms, which can produce unique optical effects in the way they filter and reflect light. These crystals are found in nature in various animals that have evolved to produce reflective iridescent coloration, including various kinds of fish and other organisms.

Scientists have had success with engineering them artificially as well, with their various uses found in everything from optical switches and communications devices to waveguides, lasers, mirrors, and even stealth technologies.

However, the presence of photonic crystals on the shards of ancient Roman glass hadn’t necessarily been the first thing that came to mind for the research team.

“This beautiful sparkling piece of glass on the shelf attracted our attention,” Omenetto later admitted about a particular shard recovered from a site close to modern-day Aquileia, Italy, which was once a Roman city on the Natiso River.

The glass, which the team affectionately called the “Wow glass,” was soon revealed to be a photonic crystalline nanofabrication.

“It’s really remarkable that you have glass that is sitting in the mud for two millennia and you end up with something that is a textbook example of a nanophotonic component,” Omenetto recently said in a statement.

Remarkable indeed, Florenzo. I can imagine the ontological relief he must have felt when, after months of anxious puzzling and brain-racking, he finally found a way to reconclie his findings with the scientific paradigm of his masters. Because that's what this is about in the end: masters and slaves. Already Hegel understood that the slave's principal vocation was to produce "knowledge" and feed it to the master, whose interest has nothing to do with the truth and everything to do with naked power and domination for its own sake. The concrete content of that knowledge is immaterial. The important thing is simply that it be false and just inconsistent enough for the slaves to understand on an unconscious visceral level that they better not ask too many questions.

This article illustrates well how drone-class scientists can be counted on to do the work of the history forgers for them without even realizing it. Once their minds have been formatted with a couple of false foundational beliefs -- "Ancient Rome existed two thousand years ago", "There was no high technology in the past", all you have to do is sit back, grab some popcorn, and watch your good little knowledge ants produce a better rationalization than the forgers themselves could have come up with, since these innocent souls actually believe what they're saying.