moss wrote:
Well thats what the reporting says, nevertheless its interesting, strontium teeth testing shows that a young lad with a necklace of 90 amber beads, could be??* from Mycenae, and therefore the Mycenaean daggers on the stone in the circle might need a further reinvestigation.. There is a long article in Britarch by the excavator Alistair Barclay of Wessex Archaeology, the boy was one of 10 burials near to the 'bowmen archers' on Boscombe Down, dating approximately 16th to 15th C BC
http://www.pasthorizons.com/testdir/index.php/archives/2138
* seems like an early childhood in Southern Europe.
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2010/09/27/heat-mediterraneanI found this a very interesting slant on Stonehenge Mediterranean boy; it also calls into question our definition of 'prehistory'. The Mycenaeans replaced an existing neolithic culture around 4,000BC and by 1600BC Mycenae had become a major centre in the ancient world (see)
http://www.answers.com/topic/mycenaean-civilization
If the carved daggers are Mycenaean - also linked with Minoan/ancient Crete culture?? (did I imagine that) then it is tempting to think that perhaps there was an interchange of philosophy and culture. Were the building techniques for the Mycenaean 'cyclopean structures' used to build what once stood where the ruins we call Stonehenge now stand. Was the 'amber-beads' boy just one of many travellers from ancient Greece.
