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Post by pandaeyes on Sept 27, 2020 13:24:33 GMT
Not the episode billed in the Radio Times, but enjoyable nonetheless. I'd love to go on a Dig. Though I'd probably be the one cleaning the finds, can't kneel anymore (blooming arthritis). Those teeth on the skull looked fantastic. You could tell they didn't have any sugar in their diet.Looking forward to next week.
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Post by beverley61 on Oct 4, 2020 17:25:01 GMT
Interesting one from Scotland. I think it was an invasion - what do you think.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 4, 2020 21:16:37 GMT
It does irritate me when they refer to the north of Scotland as remote - it wasn't remote to them, any more than it is to those who live there now. I don't know enough about the Beaker People to know if it was an invasion - they could have been trading and stayed, but it does seem significant that the Neolithic people disappeared around this time.
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Post by beverley61 on Oct 5, 2020 12:32:12 GMT
The northern part of the island was not remote back then. The links with Scandinavia, Ireland and other islands were strong, trading routes were widely established and at one point Jarrow had a library to rival any in Rome.
They seemed to imply that it was a friendly invasion and that the Neolithic people were dying out anyway as the land was too sparse to farm and there was not enough food to survive on. Why then would people from the Netherlands decide to venture over. What were they after? Land, minerals, pearls or perhaps safer places to live - they didn't ask if these people might have been fleeing incursions and wars on the continent.
Obviously we don't know but presuming most Beaker people were buried as they said and that they took great care to bury their dead. It is surprising that they haven't found more graves and certainly didn't find any near this woman.........it wasn't clear whether they were given funding to really search or just looked at the surface. If not, then carving her tomb out of rock must have been of significance to them. It was a leap to suggest she died in childbirth, she could have had a soft tissue wound or something sudden like a burst appendix/kidney stone etc. She could even have been poisoned.
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