Medieval Skeleton

[Dana Jean]

Yeah, actually i'm nott so surprised. Trees has a tendency to seek out the nourishment they can find. And a dead corpse add nourishment to the soil with the result that trees can often be found on top of graves. In an earlier era people where buried under stone mounds so the roots could not reach the body but with christianity it often was a treecoffin which moulds away rather quickly leaving free access to treeroots. If this was a single grave or just a part of a gravefield far to early to say but he certainly looks placed, that is buried, in the proper midieval position which makes me doubt a battlefield thoery. The first signs points towards a violent death but that is not unusual. England-ireland was rather restless during the time.

I think it was probably just plain ol' muuuuuuuuur-derrrrrr.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I think it was probably just plain ol' muuuuuuuuur-derrrrrr.

My father paid a group of monks that specialized in genealogy to do an ancestry check on my mother. Her history went back to one of the last tyrants of Ireland, at about this time. This article helps bring about the bond to my ancestors.

 

[Sundrop]

I'm willing to take the risk, heck, I've only been south of the Manson-Nixon line a few times in my poor despicable life....I'd go again no matter how small the chance was....

I live slightly south of the Mason-Dixon line......you're always welcome.

 

[Sundrop]

I'll probably be pushing those daisies by the time the hole's dug. I don't expect Sunny to be much help. Can't get blisters on those delicate fingers ya know. Besides, she'll be to busy hounding me telling me I'm doing it all wrong to get any digging done. Yup, she'll have her little nose buried in that blueprint hollering orders......

I'm not afraid of a little hard work, but someone has to sip cold whiskey sours and give orders......might as well be me.

 

[Sundrop]

I have read about Sunny's experiences digging here before, didn't I?
A wild ride with a weedwhacker? You guys are so trusting after Frank has been warning and warning.

Frank brought his accident on all by himself.......

 

[Sundrop]

I'll be over 300 miles away. I figure that's a pretty safe distance.

Are you sure?

 

[Sundrop]

Every time I see this commercial I think of Sunny...

I see......

 

[not_nadine]

Frank brought his accident on all by himself.......

I know he did. He just sees it in a different way. And is scarred by the whole thing.

 

[Kurben]

Was there an intelligent species that predates humans?

Sophisticated Tool Kit Predates Humans : Discovery News

Thats interesting. We know that Homo Habilis (Handy man) wasnt the first to make tools. Tools about 200.000 years older than him have been found. They have tentatively been attributed to a creature called Australopithecus Garhi. If these dates are correct that limit is pushed back even further. The time and place are a good match for Australopithecus Afarensis or Lucy that lived under that period. Researchers have been speculating in if she wasn't complex enough to make primitive tools. The thought being if chimps are smart enough to make primitive tools why not Afarensis? We do know from observations that chimps do make primitive tools. If this stands seems like these speculations were correct. We would need a find site where both bone and tools can be found together to be certain though.

 

[Sundrop]

I know he did. He just sees it in a different way. And is scarred by the whole thing.

I'm telling you......I wish you could have seen him all jacked up on that rot gut yemenade hollering that he could fly......
I do feel bad for him, though......I think the stuff caused a severe memory lapse for him, and sometimes he can not separate truth from fantasy......poor Frank.......

 

[not_nadine]

He still picks the sand. I would have loved to see him hooting and and dancing yemenade in hand. Something had to happen.

He seems a bit better now. It's the flashbacks that haunt him.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I want to dig up skeletons and stuff.....

 

[mal]

I once dug up a midieval cemetary in Iceland. I've never dug up so many graves in so short a time. They were about the same age and older and younger too. At least 100 graves graves that i dug up, photoed, drawed, measured and collected.

...and posted some of the pics on this site???

 

[muskrat]

...undisturbed bones remain a long time.

Boy howdy! No one has disturbed mine in quite some time. *rimshot!*

Anyhoo, I thought archeologists spent half their time fighting Nazis and swinging from bullwhips. No time for love, Dr. Jones.

 

[Dana Jean]

I want a medieval skeleton.

 

[Kurben]

Boy howdy! No one has disturbed mine in quite some time. *rimshot!*

Anyhoo, I thought archeologists spent half their time fighting Nazis and swinging from bullwhips. No time for love, Dr. Jones.

Never even owned a bullwhip.......

 

[Kurben]

...and posted some of the pics on this site???

Sorry this was in the late 80-ties early 90-ties. The pics are now in Iceland. But it looked very similar to this.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Sorry this was in the late 80-ties early 90-ties. The pics are now in Iceland. But it looked very similar to this.

Wow this is incredible... look at these people, what did they think, how did they feel, what did they do, what would they think if they could see their world now?

 

[Maskins]

I'm telling you right now, if I lived in Europe, I'd be digging up my yard. There is history in every step! I told someone this a few years ago from England and he told me to come dig in his yard. I forgot who that was though.

You are more than welcome to dig up mine... though my family are from East London. There, it is not so wise to dig things up. Every so often a bomb from the blitz comes up. Also, the island isn't THAT small. Most gardens don't have dead bodies.

That said, the ones that do tend to have an awful lot of them.

 

[mal]

Wow! Thanks Kurben. Are the holes in the skulls bash wounds or time decay? Was this a mass execution?