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Dan Davis retweeted
What do we actually see when we look at the female statuette from Amiens-Renancourt 1 (27,000 BP)? ✨
The study reveals an exceptional chalk figurine featuring a clearly defined face with sculpted cheekbones, nose, and an upward gaze, breaking standard Gravettian conventions.
Paul Atreides is just a straight up hero, not an anti-hero.
Paul Atreides isn’t a villain, he’s a sympathetic anti-hero. He embraced a myth to survive the desert, walked the path it demanded, and despises his 'terrible purpose' and now wants to run way back to the desert with his loving wife Chani.
The fact that people keep calling him a villain just shows they've never read the book or even watched the mini-series. It's just the same shallow black-and-white take people repeat to try and sound smart online.
Unfortunately the Romano-Celtic dodecahedrons don't show use wear consistent with use as tools for making gold wire.
And I don't know for sure but I think roman gold braided chains were formed with a different method anyway.
Wow, this is an even more plausible theory for the purpose of the ancient Roman Dodecahedron!
I think she is onto it here.
Again with weaving, but this time it's with metal as well, the demonstration shows a pretty convincing match to the gold chain work found in ancient gold caches. And it's a process that would naturally use all the different widths of the holes, for the drawing and stretching of the metal chain. She gives two different size examples in the linked complete video.
It's also an explanation for why it would have been found in Roman military archeological sites, as it would work not only for metal chain, but for cordage as well.
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I wonder if he wore this helmet at Alesia.
Would have been an inspiring sight on the battlefield and a practical one.
Commius had links to Britain even before Alesia, he was involved in Caesar's invasions. Quite a life story.
It would be cool if this was him, so it must be.
Proud to say I'm one of the 4% who completed Insanity difficulty play throughs of mass effect 1 - 3
Some sections in 3 were extremely hard (for me) to beat without exactly the right shepherd + squad + strategy.
ME3 prob last multiplayer game I played actually. Was quite good at it but I think the average online player was quite bad.
Dan Davis retweeted
After escaping the battlefield of Alesia in 52 B.C, King Commius continued to lead a guerrilla war against the Roman forces in Gaul, before sailing to southeastern Britain, where he established himself as king of the Atrebates, setting up his base at Calleva (Silchester).
Dan Davis retweeted
The "Red Haired Goddess" is a Neolithic figurine from the Starčevo culture, dating to around 6,000 BC.
Its features are typical for Neolithic female figurines, which were produced from Europe to the Indus Valley between about 7000 BC and 3000 BC.
But why were they made?
Your great-great-x150k-grandfather was very lonely 3 million years ago, okay bro, who are you to judge.
When did we really split from our last common ancestor with our closest modern cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos? A new study published by @trevorcousins_ et al suggests it may be a pretty messy situationship.
Study linked below 👇
Dan Davis retweeted
1/ The Astral Ring was found in House Tomb 9 at the site of Petras in Eastern Crete and dates to the Middle Minoan II period. It is crafted from a composite silver alloy and decorated with a star motif, with a Minoan hieroglyphic symbol repeated between the points of the star.
Runs like a goofball, sorry.
While Daniel Craig - the sadsack miseryguts larping as "what if James Bond was clinically depressed" - had a pretty decent run actually. All uptight and stiff like his character.
Dan Davis retweeted
Orthostat depicting King Araras of Carchemish holding his son Kamanis from the wrist, Carchemish, 900-700 BC
The inscription reads: “This is Kamanis and his siblings. I held his hand and despite the fact that he is a child, I located him on the temple. This is Yaris' image.”
People say this stuff in my comments all the time - lol it's just a doll, lol it's just porn - as if archaeologists never thought of that.
Look at the replies under here.
Lol it's just dolls
Lol it's just porn
They this because it gives you a momentary organic chemical reward for telling yourself you are clever and insightful while the so-called experts are dummies who miss what's obvious.
No point trying to discuss evidence and reasoning with these kinds of people cos they're not interested in that.
Dan Davis retweeted
The capstones over the chamber of the passage grave of Roc’h-en-Aud in St-Pierre-Quiberon (Morbihan) do not fully cover it suggesting that the central part was possibly corbelled with smaller stones. Card by Lannelongue in Quiberon c.1910.
