tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post4672217412280672807..comments2024-03-28T06:30:58.474-07:00Comments on Old European culture: New houseoldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-78008072914504154162019-01-25T06:25:10.294-08:002019-01-25T06:25:10.294-08:00wow this is wonderfulwow this is wonderfuldfactual.comhttp://dfactual.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-78696562335365788002019-01-23T15:38:47.639-08:002019-01-23T15:38:47.639-08:00Off topic but interesting: New Insights into what ...Off topic but interesting: New Insights into what Neolithic People Ate in Southeastern Europe<br /><br /><br />With the dawn of the Neolithic age, farming became established across<br />Europe, people turned their back on aquatic resources, a food source more typical<br />of the earlier Mesolithic period, instead preferring to eat meat & dairy<br />products from domesticated animals.<br /><br /><br /><br />New research (R Socy Proc B) has shed new light on the Neolithic eating<br />habits in SE-Europe, using food residues from pottery extracts >8 ka:<br />-people living in the Iron Gates region of the Danube continued regular<br />fish-processing, <br />-pottery extracts previously examined from 100s of sherds elsewhere in<br />Europe show that meat & dairy was the main food source in pots.<br />DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-26735157629286663922019-01-22T01:11:54.222-08:002019-01-22T01:11:54.222-08:00Great observations. Thank youGreat observations. Thank youoldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-52716941438377459002019-01-21T09:53:11.453-08:002019-01-21T09:53:11.453-08:00"Every new build required a blood sacrifice. ..."Every new build required a blood sacrifice. Before the building started, a lamb or a cockerel was slaughtered on the foundation stone." Later, a rooster "was then killed on the doorstep, his blood was sprinkled on the outside walls.." "People avoided walking by a building site of a new house.."<br /><br />Is it just a coincidence that the oldest known concrete is from 7,600 years ago used for flooring in Serbia*, that walking on curing concrete ruins it so the 'shadow taboo' is sensible, and sprinkling blood into the mixed cement produces small bubbles [alkaline lime x blood fatty acids => soapy flakes + mixing -> bubbles] that make it more resistent to the stresses of freeze-thaw cycles? Was horsehair or straw added to strengthen it tensionally, like iron rebar in modern reinforced concrete? Was mortar or plaster used to seal stone walls or kilns there? Adding crushed pottery or volcanic ash to plaster makes fast-curing hydraulic cement, and adding gravel makes strong waterproof concrete. Aren't the oldest known ceramics (animal shapes) from that area?<br /><br />*Ryan North, How to invent everythingDDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-66559641984166238212019-01-17T17:10:00.747-08:002019-01-17T17:10:00.747-08:00"If a family was moving from an old, still ex..."If a family was moving from an old, still existing, house into a new house, a fire from the old fireplace had to be brought into the new fireplace, to ensure the continuation of the family."<br /><br />That custom was ancient, bringing the last camps' ember (encapsulated or enveloped) to the next camp, pragmatically to avoid having to start a fire from wet fuels. I think the Greek amphorae began as ember bearers, the Andaman natives bore their family ember in an earthenware pot, while the Mbuti do so in a vegetative envelope. I suspect the Hebrew term shamash referred originally to the same.DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.com