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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: DBS on May 21, 2024, 07:44:29 AM

Title: NE Pyrenees Iron Age excavation
Post by: DBS on May 21, 2024, 07:44:29 AM
At work, have not had time to read it properly, but found this via an excited "Iron Age house burnt by Hannibal" story on CNN.  The study itself makes no mention of said Mr Barca, but hey, the authors got themselves a CNN headline  ;D

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fearc.2024.1347394/full
Title: Re: NE Pyrenees Iron Age excavation
Post by: Erpingham on May 21, 2024, 10:03:08 AM
Nice bit of archaeological science that.  What I did like was the authors don't speculate on why the building burned down or who might have been responsible.  I presume a press release did, however, and that got the CNN coverage.
Title: Re: NE Pyrenees Iron Age excavation
Post by: DBS on May 21, 2024, 02:47:17 PM
The oddity is that if the house burned because of hostile activity, they were arguably pretty incompetent or careless attackers if they left a horse and five sheep/goats to die rather than looting valuable livestock.