#5000 bc

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Skara Brae is said to be the oldest Bronze Age settlement in Europe

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Cromeleque dos Almendres (6000-4000 BC). Évora, Alentejo, Portugal

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Found this at the beach under a cliff last year after a storm. Asked some friends about it, one works as a anthropologist and said this looks late paleolithic, most likely a blade made for a handle. Wow!

I've always had a knack for finding fossils, once a medieval seal (which a school colleague borrowed from me just to break it, that still rankles) or the occasional arrowhead. But this is the first time I found a knife. I'm actually excited! And afterwards I went on a geographical/archeological tour on the coast to learn more about the place I live in. It's fascinating!

For example: just some hundred meters to about 5 kilometers out in the Baltic Sea are shallows which sometimes existed through the middle ages (in one example till the end of the 19th century) as flat islands or peninsulas. As the ground is rather unstable, not caused by volcanos or such dramatic natural devices but because it's just so soaked through and muddy, the ground rises and sinks sometimes. So many of these islands perished in violent storms and nowadays lie just some 5 to 10 meters below the surface. The latest archeological work showed tens of Neolithic settlements, ranging in time from 5000 to 4500 B.C. This narrows "my" blade down to the mesolithic aera, most likely part of the Ertebølle-Culture, found mostly in Denmark (which is really only one boat tour away from where I live).

The Ertebølle-Culture was a culture found in South-Scandinavia and North-Germany. Part of that is the earliest ceramic ever found in Northern Germany. Those mesolithic settlers most likely had trade connections as far as southern Germany, as prestige objects like Danubian axes could be found. (I'm not surprised, people travel astoundingly long routes for prestigious objects and spices, like late egyptian traders bought amber from the Baltic Sea and even some Arabic coins found their way up to the Vikings.) They were on the very edge of the Neolithic aera, having not only dogs for the hunt but also the first domesticated animals. They built bigger boats than only dug out canoes and hunted for seals and even small whales.

It was a fascinating time and now, when I sit at the beach, looking out over the smooth, glittering sea, I find a new sense of wonder for this small, minor part of the country I live in. Looking out over the Baltic Sea towards Scandinavia I imagine them; hunting, living, weaving, giving birth, burying their dead and worshipping their gods. Fighting their fights, loving their friends and children just as we do now, only a stone's throw away behind the veil of time.

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Rock Art at Laas Geel, Somaliland, 9.000 - 3.000 BC

Photos: Abdullah Geelah/wikimedia commons (photo at the top) Clay Gilliland (2nd row left), J McDowell (2nd row right), Vladimir Lysenko (I.)/ wikimedia commons (2 photos at the bottom)

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Sails of the Ancient Period, by J. Whitewright 2011

The oldest archaeological evidence of the use of a square rig on a vessel is an image on a clay disc from Mesopotamia dating back to 5000 BC, but it can be assumed that these sails were in use for much longer.

The leteen/settee rig was probably introduced around 2nd century AD and was widely adopted in the 5th century AD and was used either single or combined. The gaff rig appeared surprisingly late, with the Dutch in 1525, and the rig seems to have started in the 1600s. 

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5000 BC

Spray and acrylic on cotton / 175 x 140 cm / Briat 2019

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'Ancient Aliens' Built World’s first Airport 7,000 years ago, says Iraqi Minister

‘Ancient Aliens’ Built World’s first Airport 7,000 years ago, says Iraqi Minister

Iraq’s Transport Minister, Kazem Finjan, claims “ancient aliens” built earth’s first airport 7,000 years ago in the Middle East – and used it for interplanetary missions.

Getting ever so slightly sidetracked during a press conference to announce the construction of a real-life, modern day airport in Dhi Qar, southern Iraq, Finjan…

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Spanish Celts and Amazigh

Spanish Celts and Amazigh

CALLING THE TRIBES TOGETHER “Sleepers if I bid you rise, would you stand before me and be counted among the strong? From the shadows of time we live once more, that our cauldron may succor a world in need; a world of great potential. We be of one blood thou and I.” ~ The whisper heard between the ancient feminine archetype to its modern counterparts.

We have noticed something profound – a lost…

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