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Vybik Jon Aug 17, 2009 12:28:37

Replying to Mr Altres

Nice piece, but I had to smile at this:

"Perhaps the smell of the burnt shells had some significance?" Pitts speculates. "Was it comforting, redolent of good meals, or could it have had a more complex, ritual meaning?"

If we have no idea what the purpose was, let's make it ritual!

Mr Altres Aug 17, 2009 12:35:02

Replying to Vybik Jon

Maybe they were simply early landscape gardening.

http://www.oregonhazelnuts.org/hazelnut_shells.php

"Hazelnut shells burn at a high temperature, do not decompose readily and are beautiful. These three attributes make them choices for many things from ingredients in fireplace logs to creative landscaping. Several Oregon Hazelnut handlers offer them by the truck load or by the sack."

fauny fergus Aug 18, 2009 11:48:08

Replying to Vybik Jon

Vybik Jon wrote:

Nice piece, but I had to smile at this:

"Perhaps the smell of the burnt shells had some significance?" Pitts speculates. "Was it comforting, redolent of good meals, or could it have had a more complex, ritual meaning?"

If we have no idea what the purpose was, let's make it ritual!

Mesolithic clambake!