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"This thread crashed and burned on page one." Come on You don't enjoy the number of angels dancing on a pinhead arguments? I'm fascinated by that time honored debate to some extent, but my focus has always been on the origin of this tradition among the hierarchies of angels. Who was the f...

Yet again you are showing your ignorance , on more than one level . You have been told often enough . Here goes yet again. "The component henge in Stonehenge probably comes from Old English “hencg “ = hinge or hencen =hang or gallows . " Note ,that it is not henge . "The term Henge w...

This thread crashed and burned on page one.

Alien star grazed our solar system 70,000 years ago sending comets hurtling towards the sun - and our ancestors may have seen it in the night sky Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5535255/An-alien-star-grazed-solar-70-000-years-ago.html#ixzz5Afe9ftOl https://arxiv.org/pdf/180...

Yes tiompan, I can imagine what discussing this with you is like. You are grasping at straws in your effort to preserve your denial that asteroid an comet impacts were a significant part of the human environment. Even if the Edinburgh analysis of Gobekli Tepe falls through, which in the opinion of ...

[ These days , in Europe , any excavations at funereal monuments or rock art sites ,particular attention is paid to that most ubiquitous mineral ,quartz . All examples are considered as “finds” . These finds vary from a small number of deposits to mound coverings consisting of thousands of pieces ....

I do not need to argue or debate my knowledge or my opinions, as just described, with anyone. Particularly with individuals who are only looking to argue for the sake of argumentation. Neither do I . One man's argumentation is another's debates or discussion .But what about when someone agrees with...

I have 60 years experience finding, handling and understanding artifacts, manuports, and geofacts from southern New England. I'm quite secure in my own knowledge, quite secure in my own opinions, and quite clear about what I can know on these subjects with a degree of certainty, as well as degrees o...

For an example of an actual effigy, made of Rhode Island Formation sandstone, and fashioned from a small pebble, see the description here: https://forums.arrowheads.com/forum/information-center-gc33/lithic-artifacts-technology-materials-gc71/gamestones-charmstones-effigy-items-gc79/195676-turtle-fro...

"It's very easy to find references to shaman usage of quartz crystals, and their presence in shamans kits." Yes I know .I just said that it was common to find the association with shamen and their kits e.g. " There is no shortage of archaeologists who buy into the shamanic hypothesis...

"It's very easy to find references to shaman usage of quartz crystals, and their presence in shamans kits." Yes I know .I just said that it was common to find the association with shamen and their kits e.g. " There is no shortage of archaeologists who buy into the shamanic hypothesis...

[img http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/springhead7/RIMG0767_zpsyevztuee.jpg ][/img] Hello, The above image is a gastrolith with a well worn thumb location to the right and a lesser but well worn finger location to the left. This was a surface find that included three other gastroliths, a man...

[ There is no shortage of archaeologists who buy into the shamanic hypothesis of rock art production,and no shortage of them mentioning quartz being associated with shamans but what is usually missing are the shamen . Quartz is found in association with many ancient monuments and and arguably direc...

Shiny rocks are attractive to non shamans . What is the ethnography associating the rocks with shamans ? Whilst appreciating that the shiny rocks are not rock art , there is a tendency to attribute rock art to shamans , with little or no evidence , and I wondering if this is a similar approach . If...

" usually interpreted as a part of a shaman's kit." . Do you buy that ? Yes, because they have been found as such in excavated contexts that one, establish they were transported by humans, and two, in association with other items associated with such kits from ethnographic literature. So ...