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#1
Crime scene forensics used to recreate British hillfort siege - BBC News https://share.google/04ClRPaKYjID3qJ4R

CSI Caledonia...
#2
Society Convention / Re: 2025 Convention - 26th-28t...
Last post by Imperial Dave - July 11, 2025, 11:30:31 AM
 ;D
#3
Society Convention / Re: 2025 Convention - 26th-28t...
Last post by stevenneate - July 11, 2025, 10:39:46 AM
Quote from: Nick Harbud on June 28, 2025, 10:20:58 AMIt's a good job the Ozzies are a tough bunch...

Australian Sports News

;D

I've been banned from competing to give the others a chance....
#4
They were hunter-gatherers in a region later colonized by immigrant agriculturalists, so the possibility raised in the article that they were simply genetically swamped by the newcomers seems highly plausible. There probably never were very many of them.
#5
Perhaps they imbibed too much marching powder and marched off somewhere...
#6
 ::)
#7
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Early Bronze Age donkey re...
Last post by Nick Harbud - July 10, 2025, 03:26:31 PM
One can just imagine what might have been going through the donkeys' minds...

Go on long journeys...See strange, exotic, new countries...Meet new and interesting people...Get your throat cut and entrails removed...

Not much fun being a donkey (or a slave, for that matter.)

 :(
#8
The ritual aspects of these donkeys' demise provides a rather different connotation to the concept of a 'donkey sanctuary.'
#9
Ancient & Medieval Battles / Re: The Battle of Lugdunum
Last post by Keraunos - July 10, 2025, 02:11:16 PM
Quote from: Adrian Nayler on July 09, 2025, 11:53:38 PM"The emperor thus won two magnificent victories, one in the East (against Niger) and one in the West (against Albinus). No battles and no victories can be compared to those of Severus, and no army to the size of his army; there are no comparable uprisings among nations, or total number of campaigns, or length and speed of marches." Herodian, Ab Excessu Divi Marci III.7. 




Sounds like a modern day press release from the bling palace formerly known as the White House.
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Ancient and Medieval History / Re: DNA shows a prehistoric Co...
Last post by Keraunos - July 10, 2025, 02:08:29 PM
At least one episode captured on film - The Last of the Mohicans  ;)