Ironing out the Press Headlines from the Archaeological Reality

What must be stated is that this isn’t the initial time this more prehistoric dating of these crannogs had been presented. In year 1996, the Professor of the Archaeology at the Edinburgh University, Dr. Ian Armit, published the seminal book, “Archaeology of the Skye and Western Isles wherein he wrote down “In places like this Outer Hebrides of the Scotland, timber had been unavailable from Neolithic age and onwards. As an outcome, the total stone crannogs sustaining Drystone architecture had been very common there.”

Moreover, in year 2011, the professor, Dr. Jean-Denis Lepage advertised one of the top user friendly architectural record books ever advertised, the British Fortification through the Reigns of Richard III: The Illustrated History. With this magical journey illustrating the prehistoric relationship with the stones, it’s written there; “Archaeological evidences at the Crannogs in western Isles showed evidences that they were applied during the different periods in between 4000 to 2000bc.

The latest report stated:

“The research had demonstrated the extensive occurrence of Neolithic crannogs at the Outer Hebrides, ultimately confirming different scholarly speculation regarding the probability of their existence.”

The pioneers such as Dr. Lepage and Dr. Armit, in year 1996 and year 2011 respectfully, having no doubts be thrilled of this new research and which has been scientifically verified - for the primary moment - that crannogs were really a widespread trait of the Neolithic, and being built as first as 4000 BC, and with the evidences of radiocarbon way back up to the timeline.

Female Druids, the gone ministers of the Celts

At the medieval Irish myths they were known as Bandorai or Banduri. Their survival was confirmed by prehistoric, Roman and Greek writers. But who are those legendary female Druids?

These Druids were the prehistoric religious leaders, researchers and scientists of Celtic community. For centuries now, there was a mutual misconception that the Druids were only guys or male. However, many historical records testified to the facts that there were women among their positions.

The wise among the Celtic society

The word ''Druid'' came from an Indo-European remark ''Deru” that means ''true” or “the truth''. This word has progressed to the Greek word ''drus'', which means ''oak''.

These Druids were the brainy elite. Being the Druid was their tribal function however, there were also astronomers, magicians, astrologers and poets. It took nineteen years to achieve the necessary skills and knowledge in alchemy, law, the sciences, medicine, and a lot more. They prepared judicial processes, intellectual life, had skills to cure people, and had in developing techniques for war. They had been the oasis of wisdom with a high respect in their society.

Roman records of the Druidesses

This Gaius Julius Caesar had become fascinated with Druids. He inscribes down that they were theologians, philosophers, and scientists, and acquired skills that was exceptional. According to the experts in Caesar's records, the great Roman chief was well informed about the female Druids. Sad to say, lots of the Roman authors ignored women in common, so it isn’t easy to locate references to them in the historical texts. But, Strabo wrote down regarding the team of religious ladies who lived on the isle near Loir River. In the ‘Historia’, Augusta there is a description of Diocletian, Aurelian and Alexander Severus, who talked their problems with their female Druids.

Saving the blessed Fortingall Yew

Alarmingly, because of the its present condition of poor health, the coordinator Catherine Lloyd states, “one day the prehistoric yew will just keel over, and this would happen in about 50 to 300 years more”. In response with “The minister yew tree plan, is the 10-year program operating in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, which will bury seedlings from Fortingall Yew at the different kirkyards in Angus and Perthshire, and also at Royal Botanic Garden. In year 2020 they are hoping to have victoriously identified around twenty churchyards that will accept the latest saplings.

This Tayside Biodiversity Community Partnerships and the Eco-congregation Scotland, planted the first ever tree at the Megginch Castle, nearby Errol, in this month, however Loyd told the reporters that this sapling “will not be from a Fortingall Yew” and also she added, “the actual origin of the tree cannot be identified without the DNA test” and this is important since the scientists only wanted to work with the saplings from an original Fortingall tree.”

Message to the ancient souvenir collector

Due to the characteristics of the Ancient Origins platform, a probability should be quite high which at least one from the person reading this will have the branch, a piece or needle of the bark from the blessed tree sitting, gathering dirt and dust on the mantelpiece. Standing by, the writer is taking this concluding part to talk openly, the way your parents obviously failed in doing so.

Even though you think obtaining the part of the old tree improved your spirituality, your connection to nature and your overall individuality, in the cold reality you’re a baffled lowly materialist. Depart from things as you discover them!

Mesolithic Hunting Ritual

The archaeologists had the tendency to relate the pre-agricultural non-utile artifacts to faith, but the Cambridge archaeologist involved at the Star Carr lifted the postulation that a deer headdress “can have items of camouflage have on while hunting.” While a visual of the 30 plus hunters sneaking through the woodland dressed as the deer sets one’s mind on fire, Dr. Jody Joy told the reporters that “some parts of the antlers had been taken out. One suspect a deer would not be fooled!”

To have a better understanding why the ancient people created such an elaborated sacred object, the different world view must be adopted and considered ‘animism.' Just imagine for a second the reality in which each material object and the phenomena have the unseen life force; wherein the spiritual and material realms are merely different parts of ‘a thing.’ In that humanity, open for pre-scientific reasoning, the forebears projected the concepts of spirit, sentience and soul onto fauna and fern, light and shadows, sunshine, thunder, wind, and rain.

To improve fishing and hunting success, there is a pre and post chasing rituals aimed at concentrating and unifying the proper natural elements should have urbanized way back in the pre-history, possibly when it is initially developed superstitious thoughts. After all, rituals are the systemized and amplified big sisters of the “touching wood” and “in not walking beneath ladders!”

To increase insights into its original beliefs that led to the making of spiritual gear such as ancient masks, and in achieving the deeper understanding of the ancient hunting rituals, anthropologists and archaeologists usually study the rites of the present day hunter gatherers. Base on the research paper in 2015 published by NCBI, the Mayan peasant-hunters crossways in Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula, particularly the X-Pichil society, still carry out the hunting ritual – the Loj Ts’oon,  Loojil Ts’oon, or the Carbine Ceremony.

Buenos Aires Skull

The ‘modern’ human skull located in Buenos Aires might be at least 1.5 million years of age.

The approach employed illogical thinking if there are considerations that the skull has been discovered in the Pre-Ensenadean layer, which, based on the latest geological calculations, way back in 1.5 million years. A scientific fact, as with the plethora of cases globally, do not match a final analogy, but instead of chasing the matter more until the satisfying scientific finale has arrived upon, the finding has slipped naturally into anonymity.

A Clichy Skeleton

In the quarry on an Avenue de Clichy, in Paris, parts of the human skull were found together with the femur, tibia, and most of the foot bones in 1868 by Eugene Bertrand. The layer, wherein the skeleton was ditched from would create the fossils about 330,000 years of age.

It was not until the Neanderthals turned out to be taken as a Pleistocene ancestor of the later humans that the French anthropologists were obliged to drop a Clichy skeleton from a human evolutionary line, to become the modern type of humans couldn’t predate their supposedly matured Neanderthal relatives. The Neanderthals are typically understood to have lived from 30,000-150,000 years passed, and the Clichy skull, which dated back at above 300,000 years ago has been simply not a suitable find in spite of the evidence to sustain its authenticity.

There is even a comparison of Neanderthal skulls and Modern Human from the Natural History of Cleveland Museum.