Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:11 AM
Four-thousand year old gold-adorned skeleton found near WindsorLast edited Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:08 AM - Edit history (1)
Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400 year old gold-adorned skeleton of an upper class woman who was almost certainly a member of the local ruling elite.
She is the earliest known woman adorned with such treasures ever found in Britain. The individual, aged around 40, was buried, wearing a necklace of folded sheet gold, amber and lignite beads, just a century or two after the construction of Stonehenge some 60 miles to the south-west. Even the buttons, thought to have been used to secure the upper part of her now long-vanished burial garment, were made of amber. She also appears to have worn a bracelet of lignite beads. The archaeologist in charge of the excavation, Gareth Chaffey of Wessex Archaeology, believes that she may have been a person of power perhaps even the prehistoric equivalent of a princess or queen. Its known that in southern Britain, some high status men of that era the Copper Age had gold possessions, but this is the first time archaeologists have found a woman of that period being accorded the same sort of material status. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-year-old-goldadorned-skeleton-found-near-windsor-8581819.html 
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 Four-thousand year old gold-adorned skeleton found near Windsor (Original post) |
Ichingcarpenter | Apr 2013 | OP |
| eppur_se_muova | Apr 2013 | #1 | |
| Ichingcarpenter | Apr 2013 | #5 | |
| Ash_F | Apr 2013 | #2 | |
| DRoseDARs | Apr 2013 | #3 | |
| Ichingcarpenter | Apr 2013 | #4 | |
| muriel_volestrangler | Apr 2013 | #6 | |
| DRoseDARs | Apr 2013 | #9 | |
| FiveGoodMen | Apr 2013 | #10 | |
| dipsydoodle | Apr 2013 | #7 | |
| muriel_volestrangler | Apr 2013 | #8 | |
| eppur_se_muova | Apr 2013 | #11 | |
| dipsydoodle | Apr 2013 | #12 | |
| eppur_se_muova | Apr 2013 | #13 | |
| dipsydoodle | Apr 2013 | #14 | |
| eppur_se_muova | Apr 2013 | #15 | |
| dipsydoodle | Apr 2013 | #16 | |
| Boudica the Lyoness | Apr 2013 | #17 | |
| HooptieWagon | Apr 2013 | #18 |
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:20 AM
eppur_se_muova (35,620 posts)
1. From Wessex Archaeology ...
Response to eppur_se_muova (Reply #1)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:09 AM
5. added the photos in the link thanks N/t
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:05 AM
2. Interesting. I wonder what that society was like. /nt
Response to DRoseDARs (Reply #3)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:13 AM
6. No; they just found a settlement 2km from Stonehenge that was 5000 years older than it
Response to DRoseDARs (Reply #9)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:52 PM
10. Maybe there aren't enough scientists writing for the average reader
Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:17 AM
7. For those who can't easily relate to that area
Response to dipsydoodle (Reply #7)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:34 AM
8. Or, perhaps for those not British, in the middle of the reservoirs under the Heathrow flight path
Response to dipsydoodle (Reply #7)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:38 PM
eppur_se_muova (35,620 posts)
11. Angling for donkeys ? Peculiar behavior for a Democrat. nt
Response to eppur_se_muova (Reply #11)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:16 PM
12. Its what we call
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coarse fishing.
Like this one 
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Response to dipsydoodle (Reply #12)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:20 PM
eppur_se_muova (35,620 posts)
13. Thanks for the explanation ...
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I figured there was some kind of "sea donkey" or something, but couldn't imagine what it was.
(I don't know what a "coarse" is either, BTW .. )
There's a reason it's known as Angle-land. |
Response to eppur_se_muova (Reply #13)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:34 PM
14. Coarse fishing
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is everyday freshwater fish in lake and rivers. That excludes some trout and salmon which are game fish. What are in the sea are classed as sea fishing. Coarse and game require licenses to fish.
btw - the guy in the picture and I have been friends since we were 5 years old.
In passing - the Angles were those from what is now southern Denmark who settled here long ways back. See : Settlers in Britain The Romans invaded Britain in AD43. After that, for 400 years southern Britain was part of the Roman world. The last Roman soldiers left Britain in AD 410, and then new people came in ships across the North Sea. Historians call them Anglo-Saxons. The new settlers were a mixture of people from north Germany, Denmark and northern Holland. Most were Saxons, Angles and Jutes. There were some Franks and Frisians too. If we use the modern names for the countries they came from, the Saxons, Franks and Frisians were German-Dutch, the Angles were southern Danish, and Jutes were northern Danish. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/who_were_the_anglo-saxons/ |
Response to dipsydoodle (Reply #14)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:41 PM
eppur_se_muova (35,620 posts)
15. The origin of the name is not as clear-cut as I thought ...
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The name of the Angles is thought to derive from the name of the area they inhabited, Angeln. The latter has been hypothesized to originate from the Germanic root for "narrow" (compare German eng = "narrow"
 , meaning "the Narrow [Water]", i.e. the Schlei estuary; the root would be angh, "tight". Another theory is that the name meant "hook", as in angling for fish; Julius Pokorny, a major Indo-European linguist, derives it from *ang-, "bend" (see ankle).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln#Name I thought the Angles were so named for their habit of fishing. |
