This cup marked rock is to be found within a ten mile radius of Torbhlaren ,but as it is part of building and the owner doesn’t want any publicity ,including a mention in Canmore ,Torbhlaren will have to do .
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Gobekli Tepe .Response from excavators
A useful response from the excavators ,mainly related to the problems connected with the nonsense about about the symbols and cherry picking .
It’s not to be expected that they might have noticed that the astronomy was also wrong i.e. the asterisms were actually below the horizon on their chosen solstice date . Possibly why the images highlighted them during the day when they were above the horizon but invisible .
No mention either of the suggested date of the observation being a thousand years earlier than the earliest date from the site .
Hopefully the Telegraph and New Scientist will give this the space it deserves .
Dolmen with a double capstone .
Finds were flint arrowheads and some pottery .
One of the sidestones has natural markings similar to cup marks .
Gobekli Tepe
Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of civilisations .
telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-comet-struck-earth-10950bc-wiping/
Even the New Scientist fell for this nonsense .
The paper is here .
maajournal.com/Issues/2017/Vol17 ... 281%29.pdf
Well worth a read if you enjoy fantasies .
Ideal fodder for the saddos who have a problem with experts .
In this case the expertise of the authors ( chemical engineering ) is unrelated to the content .
Not dissimilar to geomorphologists writing “papers ” about archaeology .
One of a group of three dolmens on the south facing slopes of the Causse Grand Verdier .The IGN map isn’t much help , simply having a pink square in the general area and “Dolmens ” alongside .
The Uffington White Horse geoglyph as sun-horse .
DOI: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.269
Josh Pollard has an interesting paper in the most recent “Antiquity ” . An original suggestion , afaiaa , that the geoglyph is a symbol related to the Trundholm sun horse and associated motifs found on Scandinavian razors and rock art .
Flemming Kaul has been the main instigator in suggesting that the symbol(s) are derived from Indo -European myth and represent the sun on it’s daily journey from east to west , whilst a boat or chariot takes it on the underworld return west to east journey .
In this case the horse is heading just west of south .
There are problems with the Kaul suggestion but it still has adherents since his initial “Ships on Bronzes ” nearly 20 years ago .
Just to the west of the village of Malves -en Minervois . Impressive 5m high menhir .
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Don’t think this investigation is included in the UK Archaeological Science Conference (see below) .
But a good example of tech clarifying the muddy waters .
UK Archaeological Science Conference 5th – 8th April 2017
See
ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cal...tract_book.pdf
For info .
Abstracts start at P. 21 .
Pps 48, 57 , 65 & 107 .Look the most likely to grab attention here , particularly the Aveline’s Hole one .
“View” from the chamber . When taking into consideration the removal of the scrub it is yet another example of an orientation that is too far south to be aligned on a part of the horizon where the sun or moon would be seen to rise or set .
Women and children last .
A wee bit breathless in places , but the important points make up for it .
There are 10 dolmens in the hills surrounding Espolla . None are oriented towards any solstice event and 8 are oriented towards a part of the horizon where the sun will never be seen to rise or set . This is one of the eight .
This dolmen and themodernantiquarian.com/site/18146/dolmen_roquetraoucade.html are on the same hillside , less than 400m apart , much the same height and have very similar views . The orientation of each differs by 100 degrees .
View over capstone . The hill in the distance is Alaric .
