The Skara Brae Artefacts: Who Made Them, and Why? - Daily Grail

Our theme: "Taking another look at something, and coming up with a surprise." Greg Taylor discusses a remarkable paper proposing an eye-opening yet "fundamentally commonsense" use for some enigmatic Neolithic objects. Miguel (Red Pill Junkie) Romero offers Examples of Underestimated Archaeology Similar to Sutton Hoo. These are mostly monumental instances where time proved the greater importance of a find. Still on the huge end, a recent surprise has archaeologists thinking New Thoughts on the Origins of Stonehenge. This article summarizes the find and its import, linking to an academic source recounting the many scientific techniques--plus good 'ol digging--behind a more complex theory about the movement of stones and people from several Welsh sites eastwards. Returning to our start and amazing developments and interpretations from smaller traces of the past, CT Scans of Egyptian Mummy Reveal New Details about the Death of a Pivotal Pharaoh. Computed Tomography of Senenenre-Taa-II the Brave shows what X-rays taken in the 1960s missed, changing theories on how that not-completely-successful leader against the Hyksos died. And for something almost literally under our collective archaeological and historical noses since its 1871 discovery, see Stephen Luntz' Extinct Species of Goose Identified From "Egypt's Mona Lisa". (WM)

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