New Views over Megalithia

[Boreades]

I used to naively think that my perception of my wee Scottish cousin MacBoreades as a "dour Scot" (a.k.a. a miserable git) was because of "selective genetic migration". As in, all the Scots with a positive "get up and go" attitude had done exactly that, and had got up and gone from Scotland to the four corners of the globe. Leaving behind the depressed ones with a chip on both shoulders, smoking ciggies, swigging from bottles of whiskey and buckie.

It now seems I was wrong?

encounters between Homo Sapiens and Neandertal have left their marks in the genome of modern Europeans, making many of us more prone to nicotine addiction and to depression. Around 3% on average of the modern Europeans' genome is inherited from our Neandertal ancestors. It may not seem like much (although we have not inherited more from our great-great-grand-mother) – but it packs a punch. It influences their risk of becoming addicted to nicotine as well as their tendency to depression, according to research published in Science magazine.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6274/737

[TisILeclerc]

Does this mean that Neanderthals were boozers and smoked like chimneys, whatever they were?

I think most Scots would be swigging from a bottle of whisky rather than whiskey. And the vino of choice used to be Lanlic. Whatever happened to that?

It would explain the ginger thing though.

[Boreades]

Will all those who are from La Cotte de St Brelade (and its environ) please take one step forward.

La Cotte de St Brelade is a Paleolithic site of early habitation in St Brelade, Jersey. Cotte means "cave" in Jèrriais. The cave is also known as Lé Creux ès Fées (The Fairies' Cave). Neanderthals lived there at various times between around 250,000 years ago and after 48,000 years ago - making it the earliest known occupation of the Channel Islands by a hominim species, and also possibly one of the last Neanderthal sites in northwestern Europe. It is the only site in the British Isles to have produced late Neanderthal fossils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cotte_de_St_Brelade

It's in the news.

Jersey was a refuge for Neanderthals: Our ancient cousins sought shelter in the Channel Island for 140,000 years. Researchers analysed fragments of stone tools and bone found at a cave site. Evidence suggests visits to the cave between 180,000 to 40,000 years ago. The Jersey cave is thought to have been important to Neanderthals for shelter. Our ancient cousins would have crossed ice and later coastal plains to reach the site and it may have been the last known places for Neanderthals in the region. Jersey was a haven for Neanderthals between 180,000 and 40,000 years ago, according to new research. Stone tools and mammoth bones unearthed at La Cotte de St Brelade suggest the Channel Island was repeatedly visited by our ancient human cousins. Researchers suspect they arrived from Northern France and the surrounding region, travelling by foot over ice or over the coastal plains.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... d-DNA.html

[TisILeclerc]

That top picture looks like Woopy Goldberg or whatever they call her in a ginger wig.

Where did they get their ginger hair from? Gorillas and chimps tend to be black. But Orang Utangs are ginger.

Does this mean that Neanderthals came westwards from the east?

[TisILeclerc]

https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/201 ... greek-city

Now where have I seen something like this before?

Ah yes.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Man_of_Wilmington

But this modern gentleman was working here.



https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/201 ... greek-city

http://vlap.se/blog/

I wonder if this hill is natural or was the stick man involved in building it? Or just measuring it. The more things change the more they seem to stay the same.

[Boreades]

Different types of geo-phys equipment, but still with something in common : measuring the landscape.

[Boreades]

Another man-made hill in Greece?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 71246.html

Not to be confused with this man-made hill in Mexico.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Cholula

[Boreades]

I've just been asked : how much neanderthal dialect is left in Jersey?

It might sound unfair. I get similar slurs cast upon my Devonian roots. Ooh Arr.

But if Jersey was that last and best refuge of neanderthals, shouldn't someone take pride in that?

[Boreades]

The most famous bowls game we're told was played by Drake waiting for Spanish ships.

Conflating Drake and our other chats about fire-breathing dragons, we may be interested in the Fireships used against the Armada. Some say that they worked so well because the Spanish feared that they were Hellburners, as used at the Siege of Antwerp in 1584. The news of their effect there on the Spanish fleet would have spread like, err, wildfire.

For a good full article see : Hellburners Were the Renaissance’s Tactical Nukes

https://warisboring.com/hellburners-wer ... .w9k6rk4fc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federigo_Giambelli

[Boreades]

Thanks to Tisi's eagle eye on breaking mega news.

Amazon stone circle

A megalithic stone circle in Brazil hints that the indigenous people of the Amazon may have been more sophisticated than archaeologists first thought. Rego Grande, known as the 'Amazon Stonehenge' after the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, is located in Amapá state, near the city of Calçoene. Experts say the unusual stone arrangement may have been used as a place of worship as well as for astronomical observations related to crop cycles.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ought.html

The Lat & Long is 2°37N 51°00W. The cordinates of which might seem familiar. Look where we get to with a flip or rotation:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlon=-2&mlat=51.1

Not quite a 90 degree rotation, but a curious geo-symmetry that deserves more attention.

Harpo, as you claim to be struck immobile by a sporting injury, and the rest of us have got social lives, can you get stuck into the geomaths? While the rest of us get ready for the TME Flash Mob Hogmanay party. Tisi's organising the Pipe Band and I'm guarding the drink.