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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: July 4, 2014, 9:00 pm
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The Indus Valley Civilization had Renewable Energy
Infrastructure. ;D
And, they were peaceful. Perhaps there is a connection... 8)
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: July 15, 2014, 12:35 am
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Arctic Expansion
By: AGelbert Date: September 3, 2014, 10:05 pm
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Arctic Expansion
Genetic analysis reveals the history of the earliest human
migrations in the region.
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan | September 2, 2014
The Arctic’s earliest human inhabitants migrated into the region
from Siberia approximately 6,000 years ago. These so called
Paleo-Eskimo peoples lived in isolation—despite periodic
migrations of other populations—before suddenly vanishing 700
years ago, according to a study published last week (August 29)
in Science.
This genetic analysis of 169 ancient and present-day humans used
museum specimens of bones, teeth, and hair from Alaska, Canada,
and Greenland; the researchers, led by Maanasa Raghavan and Eske
Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, also
sequenced the genomes of modern-day Native American, Inuit, and
Aleutian Islander families to enable comparative analyses.
Their results showed that Paleo-Eskimos spread into the Arctic
independent of Native American and Inuit migrations. Although it
periodically abandoned the area, this Paleo-Eskimo population
lived there in near-isolation for almost 4,000 years before
disappearing. The team’s analyses also showed that modern-day
Inuits are not directly related to these earliest settlers,
suggesting that the ancient Paleo-Eskimo lineage did not vanish
simply due to interbreeding.
“Elsewhere, as soon as people meet each other, they have sex,”
Willerslev told National Geographic. “Even potentially different
species like Neanderthals [and modern humans] had sex, so this
finding is extremely surprising.”
Instead, this population may have developed medical problems as
a result of continuous inbreeding, which may have contributed to
their eventual extinction, Willerslev told The New York Times.
Another potential factor may have been climate change, as
periodic fluctuations of even a few degrees could cause a loss
of marine food resources.
“By using genetics and genomics, they were able to answer
questions that archaeologists have been trying to solve for
decades,” anthropologist Todd Disotell of New York University
who was not involved in the research told the New York Times.
“With genetics, you’re looking at the ancient people themselves,
not their refuse, so to speak.”
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: September 9, 2014, 4:00 pm
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LONG article. Recommended ONLY for those who are genuinely
interested in this subject matter ;D ----> [img width=200
height=130]
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Egyptian chronology and the Bible—framing the issues
[font=times new roman]Do the dates ascribed to the Egyptian
dynasties falsify the date of biblical creation?[/font]
SNIPPET 1:
Egyptian chronology can be a challenging subject for biblical
creationists. That’s because the secular, majority view about
these chronologies extends further back than an objective
reading of the biblical chronogenealogies allows for creation: a
little over 6,000 years ago. These chronologies are hotly
debated among Christians and secularists alike, with the
consensus being increasingly challenged.
Moreover, some of the incredible Egyptian monuments like the
great pyramids on the Giza Plateau have dates ascribed to them
that would have them being built before the earth-reshaping
Flood of Noah’s time around 4,500 years ago. Following a strict
biblical chronology, Egyptian civilization cannot predate
creation, nor can the pyramids be pre-Flood constructions.
This article (although lengthy) does not attempt to solve any of
the seeming problems in aligning Egyptian chronologies with the
biblical text with any great detail. But for the average
layperson trying to understand Egyptian history, it is often a
case of ‘Where do I start?’ ‘How do we align such things?’ There
are so many names, dynasties and dates bandied around with
seeming authority that it is a confusing topic to investigate.
Also, without some background or a framework to help the
Christian gain some perspective on the issues, it is difficult
to be discerning about any information that claims to solve the
many mysteries that Egypt presents—and there are dozens of those
from Christian researchers alone! Hopefully this article will
help us realize that the issue is not as cut and dried as the
secular community sometimes presents it. Nor does Egyptian
civilization falsify biblical history as the skeptics would like
us to think.
SNIPPET 2:
Egypt’s culture was preoccupied with death and the afterlife,
which motivated them to produce many artifacts, many of which
were subsequently preserved due to the coincidence of an
extraordinarily hot and dry climate. As part of this obsession,
they worshipped multiple false deities who they believed could
interact and intervene in miraculous ways in the physical realm
(in the nature of magic arts), and who could also enable a
person’s transition to heaven.
Ancient Egyptians believed that one’s body, image, and name
needed to be preserved in this world after death in order for
them to enter and exist in the eternal realm. As such, Egypt
developed a massive industry on dealing with death, and it
became the pivotal part of their culture.
Most would be familiar with iconic famous sites like the Great
Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure on the Giza Plateau near
Cairo and the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. These were, in
reality, just magnificent tombs forming part of a massive
necropolis complex. Pharaohs encouraged the idea that they were
living incarnations of, or even born of, the deities that were
worshipped in those days.
However, preservation of the dead body was not only important
for royalty; ordinary people had to be preserved after death
also and were often buried in simpler ways. It’s just that
royalty and those who held high positions (overseers and nobles)
possessed greater wealth that enabled them to construct more
elaborate and grandiose places of burial befitting their
‘god-like’ status.
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: September 10, 2014, 2:05 pm
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Scans reveal new monuments at Stonehenge
A vast complex of monuments surrounding Britain's prehistoric
Stonehenge site has been revealed using hi-tech underground
scanning, archaeologists said on Wednesday (Sep 10).
LONDON: A vast complex of monuments surrounding Britain's
prehistoric Stonehenge site has been revealed using hi-tech
underground scanning, archaeologists said Wednesday. The
mysterious circle of standing stones, on Salisbury Plain in
southwest England, is one of the most iconic ancient sites in
Europe and was long thought to stand alone.
But high-resolution scanning of the 12 square kilometres around
it, penetrating three metres below the ground, has found it was
surrounded by 17 neighbouring shrines. "Stonehenge is the most
iconic archaeological monument, possibly along with the
pyramids, on the planet," project leader Professor Vincent
Gaffney told the British Science Festival in Birmingham, central
England.
"Most of the area around Stonehenge is terra incognita. It has
never been explored and everything we think about Stonehenge is
on the basis of what we don't know about it. "This is going to
change how we view Stonehenge. It is not yet another find from
Stonehenge, it's a fundamental step forward in the way we
understand it."
The four-year study used magnetometers - advanced metal
detectors - ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic sensors
and three-dimensional laser scanners. It uncovered finds dating
back 6,000 years, including evidence of 17 previously unknown
wooden or stone structures as well as dozens of burial mounds.
They include giant pits, some of which appear to form
astronomical alignments. The nearby Durrington Walls
"super-henge", which has a circumference of nearly a mile (1.5
kilometres), was once flanked by up to 60 posts or stones up to
three metres high, the scans showed.
Many burial mounds were found, including one barrow 33 metres
long, within which signs of a giant timber building were found.
It is suggested this was the site of complex rituals involving
the dead, including the removal of flesh and limbs.
"This project has revealed that the area around Stonehenge is
teeming with previously unseen archaeology and that the
application of new technology can transform how archaeologists
and the wider public understand one of the best-studied
landscapes on Earth," said Gaffney. "New monuments have been
revealed, as well as new types of monument that have previously
never been seen by archaeologists."
A UNESCO world heritage site, Stonehenge is one of the most
impressive prehistoric megalithic monuments anywhere due to its
size, sophisticated concentric plan and architectural precision.
It is suggested that the layout formed a theatrical arrangement,
with Stonehenge gradually emerging from the landscape as
visitors walked towards it on an ancient processional route.
- AFP/al
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: November 3, 2014, 8:21 pm
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The Last EXTINCTION: 4 sequential Nova videos on what happened
around 12,900 years ago in a possible Cycle of Cosmic
Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of
Civilization. [img width=50
height=40]
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Nice graphics!
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: November 11, 2014, 9:33 pm
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When fire really was renewable energy
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[quote][font=times new roman]
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse EARLE (1851 - 1911)
CHAPTER III[52]
THE KITCHEN FIRESIDE[/font][/quote]
Snippet:
[quote][font=times new roman]Many of our New England poets have
given us glimpses in rhyme of the old-time kitchen. Lowell's
well-known lines are vivid enough to bear never-dying
quotation:—[73]
"A fireplace filled the rooms one side
With half a cord of wood in—
There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died)
To bake ye to a puddin'.
"The wa'nut log shot sparkles out
Towards the pootiest—bless her!
An' little flames danced all about
The chiny on the dresser.
"Agin the crumbly crooknecks hung,
An' in amongst 'em rusted
The old queen's-arm that granther Young
Fetched back from Concord busted."
To me the true essence of the old-time fireside is found in
Whittier's Snow-Bound. The very chimney, fireplace, and
hearthstone of which his beautiful lines were written, the
kitchen of Whittier's boyhood's home, at East Haverhill,
Massachusetts, is shown in the accompanying illustration. It
shows a swinging crane. His description of the "laying the fire"
can never be equalled by any prose:—
"We piled with care our nightly stack
Of wood against the chimney back—
The oaken log, green, huge, and thick,
And on its top the stout back-stick;
The knotty fore-stick laid apart,
And filled between with curious art[74]
The ragged brush; then hovering near,
We watched the first red blaze appear,
Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam
On whitewashed wall and sagging beam,
Until the old, rude-furnished room
Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom."
No greater picture of homely contentment :emthup:could be shown
than the following lines:—
"Shut in from all the world without,
We sat the clean-winged hearth about,[75]
Content to let the north wind roar
In baffled rage at pane and door,
While the red logs before us beat
The frost-line back with tropic heat;
And ever, when a louder blast
Shook beam and rafter as it passed,
The merrier up its roaring draught
The great throat of the chimney laughed.
The house dog on his paws outspread
Laid to the fire his drowsy head,
The cat's dark silhouette on the wall
A couchant tiger's seemed to fall;
And, for the winter fireside meet,
Between the andirons' straddling feet
The mug of cider simmered slow,
And apples sputtered in a row.
And, close at hand, the basket stood
With nuts from brown October's woods.
What matter how the night behaved!
What matter how the north wind raved!
Blow high, blow low, not all its snow
Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow."
Nor can the passing of years dim the ruddy glow of that
hearth-fire, nor the charm of the poem. The simplicity of metre,
the purity of wording, the gentle sadness of some of its
expressions, make us read between the lines the deep and
affectionate reminiscence with which it was written.
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Agelbert NOTE: Did you know many of the early New England
Colonists lived in CAVES!!? :P Ya didn't? Why not? Oh, you must
have taken the American History that left that part out. ;D And
you thought cave people were just from the stone age, didn't ya?
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How about the fact that the Franklin Stove was an idea that Ben
got from the Germans who knew how to keep ALL the house warm
instead of just the kitchen? In Dutch and English homes, prior
to the use of a stove for heating and cooking, standing water
would freeze in the bedrooms during the harsher parts of the
winter. :o Yep. The Dutch and the English, after they moved
out of the caves ;D (they should have picked up on how
efficient passive geothermal heat is but they missed that...),
were freezing their arses off in winter for nearly a century
until the Germans brought their "new fangled" stove/heating
device to the colonies.
Until then, everybody just cooked IN (not ON) the hearth.
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/>Forget all those pretty pictures of tidy, bricked fireplaces
framed with a nice mantelpiece. ALL that came later.
The fireplace tongs and such were VERY long to keep the cook
from getting roasted while she positioned the food here and
there. And most, and often ALL, of the pots, pans and "Dutch
ovens" had legs!
And get this! The town councils had to offer home owners to
replace ALL THE NAILS in the houses when a person moved in order
to keep people from burning down their homes in order to
"harvest" the nails for use on the next house! Nails were rather
expensive, you see. England was NOT fond of colonies being able
to make their own "high tech" stuff.
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Do you want to know more? You can listen or read this book free
and learn how it was REALLY done way back when. For those who
think there is a future of going back to nature of the
"collapse", this is a valuable education in the nuts and bolts
of basic, low tech, but still civilized, living. ENJOY!
Audiobook here:
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E-book here:
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2014, 9:40 pm
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Food for thought. 8)
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: December 31, 2014, 7:53 pm
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The Miracle Of Terra Preta
A large pre-historic civilization is found in the central
Amazon. Archeologists and scientists are shocked. The soil there
is thought to be impossible to grow sufficient produce in. How
could upward of a million people survive here, over a thousand
years ago?
Could this be the elusive El Dorado, the city of gold?
Because there is a kind of gold here, in great abundance: bio
char, or black gold. The most fertile soil on earth. It's no
accident. Bio char is not naturally occurring in nature, it must
be cultivated by man.
Bio Char is an ancient method of enhancing soil fertility and
carbon sequestration with charcoal and organic matter. It helps
the soil retain water and increase crop yields. It enhances
microbiological activity. It retains nutrients for plants that
would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere, or washed away by
rains.
This could represent a key strategy in breaking the cycle of
slash and burn farming, and restore our soil.
Now we know how this civilization thrived. At 30 minutes into
this presentation, the miracle of Bio Char is explained. There
is an 880% increase in crop yields when bio char is used!
And here is something we didn't know: The great civilization in
the Amazon left a precious legacy. In the last 10 minutes of
this documentary we learn that the stuff actually renews itself!
If we can unlock the secret to reproducing this black gold, we
can save the planet!
--Bibi Farber
This video was produced by the BBC
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Re: Lost Cities and Civilizations
By: AGelbert Date: January 22, 2015, 12:53 am
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Published on Dec 2, 2012
This video claims proof that aliens had built a full civilized
city on Earth before humans, and that Krishna was also an
alien...
What impresses me about the video is the fact that the
underwater ruins of a large city off the coast of India appear
to be about 32,000 years old! :o
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