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Every once in a while, objects of interest come across my desk that hold certain features that lift them just beyond our understanding. The enigmatic Newton Stone is one such artifact, not only because this ancient monolith is inscribed with a carved message written in a mysterious and currently unsolved language, but also because the writing can be interpreted using at least five ancient alphabets. ....
Following work which began in the 1970s and spanned nearly 40 years, Peter Harris and Norman Stockdale identified a “new” unit of length used in the Neolithic. ....
There are some people who love butter so much, it sometimes looks like they’re breading their butter instead of the other way around. There are some chefs who use butter so much, it almost seems like they worship it. Then there is the Neolithic community that lived in Wales some 5,000 years ago who really. Read more » ....
The Ship’s Setting at Tjelvar’s Grave Dated to circa 1100-500 BC, Tjelvar’s Grave is one of the best-preserved ship-shaped stone settings in Gotland. The grave is 18 meters (59.06 ft.) long and 5 meters (16.40 ft.) wide. The height of the gunwale stones diminishes towards the center of the ship, which has also been filled with stones to form a boat-deck. A plundered stone-slab coffin, containing cremated bones and a few potsherds, was uncovered in an excavation in the 1930s. The earliest skeleton found on Gotland so far has been dated to 8000 years ago, but this was before the ship-shaped burials were popular. These types of sites replaced the cairn style grave site, which was made from a rough pile of stones. The stone ship, or ship setting, was an early burial custom in Scandinavia. The grave or cremation burial was surrounded by tightly or loose fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship. Scholars have suggested that the stone ship developed out of the desire ....