The point the light came in is usually described as a roof or light box .The stone/lintel forming the top of the box has quite ornate rock art on it's outward face .
The monument is usually described as a passage grave , a convenient term from the early 20 th C iirc .
The entry of the light was limited to a few days centred on the winter solstice .There were unburnt and cremated r
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You don't build a passage which ascends 2m in it's 20m length that leads to chambers ,then cover it up with thousands of tons of material creating a mound 85 m in diameter , then insert a 1m wide , 90 cm high box at just right point to allow the sunlight as it appears on the horizon to enter on the morning of the winter solstice illuminating the passage and chambers without doing
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Of course it isn't , who said it was ?
Building a passage 20 m long going uphill , covering it up then inserting gap in the exterior so that the sun illuminates the passage and chamber at it's end on the shortest day of the year , that's more like a feat .
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In common with millions of homes my house is south facing ,hence the walls are aligned on the equinox . It was intentional, but the equinoctial aspect is epiphenomenal .
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No more impressed with the putative geometry than the Fewkes' putative solstitial alignments ,which were way wrong . Quite a bit more difficult to prove the negative of intention in the geometry than the falsifiable solar alignment .
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A few posts ago you were suggesting I had asperger's , then a few posts later it was I believed I was an "arbiter of value ".Apart from stooping so low, the usual knee jerk ignorant content is telling .Clue: check out values and Asperger's .
Even your cheap insults get it wrong .
Do try to be a bit more civilised ,it doesn't require too much intelligence .
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Starting a post with "So" is often a good indication that poster has an immediate problem .
Very often what follows is a garbled attempt at a precis of an opposing view , sometimes with quotes around a quote that was never made i.e. pure fantasy ,and simply wrong .
At least you have avoided the garbled straw man quote .
Could you provide some actual content ,as I have (3
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Another post void of content .
When referring to logical problems or any problem for that matter you should
provide an argument .
I realise when you provide an invalid one it takes a very long time and multiple posts before it is understood but you seem to have given up even on these .
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You said "So basically the parts of the article you like are valid & the parts you don't are out of date... "
It's not a matter of what I liked or disliked it was what was valid or otherwise .
I explained why the part I had highlighted was valid i.e. because it was the opinion of an exp
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Jammer Wrote:
> So I quoted directly from the article YOU linked
> to, & thanked you for bringing it to my
> attention, & that makes me ignorant?
Really ? Who uses that type of logic .
It doesn't provide any indication at all of your understanding or ignorance .
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No emoji ,but another of your "meaningful " responses .
Totally evading and probably misunderstanding the point .
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I may not have his expertise , far from it . But it certainly far exceeds your understanding which is not saying much .
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He is no expert in what others think . Although as is apparent here often enough there is a general level of ignorance .
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Do you disagree with the fact that Capra is an expert in genetics and has no expertise whatsoever in what the general public know about Neanderthal research .
The former provided the basis for what I thought should be noted , the latter was of no consequence at all .
I highlighted the former , you the latter, and they are clearly of different type and quality . The common denomina
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I repeat , I found one aspect of the article of little worth as it was not based on any expertise .
I highlighted one area of the expert content as it seems that content doesn't seem to be understood here .
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> > We have a far better understanding of
> > Neanderthals today ,mainly because of
> genetics ,
> > than that of even five years ago , and I
> imagine
> > he was describing some bel
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The link didn't work for me , do you think I made that up . ? don't you believe that ?
I doubt that we are discussing different articles .
I provided two quotes from the article .That might have been a clue .
If the article which you wrongfully believed " was mostly about the Gibraltar excavations." was different it would not have contained the quotes . Or
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Not that it matters ,but most of the article wasn't about the excavation .
Regardless of the word count , what's your point?
I highlighted comments from archaeologist admitting to the problems of over interpretation in this subject . It always was a problem and it has been noted here many times .
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The link didn't work for me but looking beneath the original another related article popped up .
Nothing new in the article either ,although a couple of comments highlighting the general problem of overinterpretation stood out .
“It’s easy to get snooty about all this unenlightened paleoanthropology of the past. But all sciences operate by trying to fit new data into exis
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Try telling that to someone with just one copy of the gene for Huntington's chorea or two copies of the sickle cell anaemia gene . Of course epigenetics tends to get ignored as I have poi
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We have a far better understanding of Neanderthals today ,mainly because of genetics , than that of even five years ago , and I imagine he was describing some beliefs long before our current understanding thanks to genetics .
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Not sure what you are suggesting Jammer , but Trusty's Hill was not anglo saxon .
The occupants were Britons and it was most likely that they burned the site .
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By their nature roads are usually for getting from A-B .
And ancient straight roads/tracks can be argued to point to anything .
Again , Manhattanhenge , is the norm ,with no astro intention at all .
"Planned " towns based on grids are full of them .
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Nothing particularly new , although the reply to "What has been the response to your Neanderthal research since you published it last year in the journal Science? " , might be of interest here .
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> I suspect the solstices and equinoxes were more
> important to 19th C scientists seeking a reason
> d'etre for Stonehenge than they were to our
> ancestors.
Orientations towards the solstice(s) at Stonehenge are not the raison d'etre of the monument .
Who were the 19 th C scientists who
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Note , there was no expectation in "An image of that wouldn't go amiss . "
I would also like a lot more detail but there was no expectation of that either .
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> Not to mention that looking at the sun for a
> living isn't good for the eyes. If the ancients
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I don't buy the solstice marker being related to farming concept .
Solstices are useful markers calendrically but not so good for sowing and harvesting .
If you need to make a marker for a solstice a couple of sticks can last for many years and the children can do it . It also has the advantage of being far more accurate than two stones or a big hole in a rock , particularly if w
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> No, I didn't find anything else online. And I
> wonder why the archaeologists didn't use their
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