Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

not_nadine

Okay I didn't read the stonehedge one yet. I'll see what they have to say.

Kurben

GNTLGNT said:

.....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

Quite correct. The place where Stonehenge now stands were used for approximately 50 cremation burials (might even be the first cremation burials at least in europe, they are very early) whose remains were buried there and found in some potholes.. That was ca 3100 BC-2700 or 2600 BC. Then that all stopped and they built what we today call Stonehenge and no further burials took place. The Standing stones with the slabs on top of them which is what we most often mean with Stonehenge was built ca 2500 BC. There are also some graves relatively close to from different times but since it is the Salisbury plain thats not really strange since people lived and worked there. Stonehenge has gone through many restaurations since then but they took place after the main construction was up and are relatively minor even if you still can see some of them today. All i meant was that since the Stoneslabs were erected in 2500 BC no burial were done at the site of Stonehenge. DNA suggests that the first phase included some construction (postholes and similar things have been found plus two, maybe three stones belong to that phase plus the burials. That was the first farmer invasion of britain. But ca 500 years later different DNA belonging to what is known in Europe as the Bell Beaker culture crossed from france. It is believed they took over and it was they who built Stonehenge. We know it was Bell Beakers from their distinctive pottery found close by. Archaeologists believe it was these people who brought the Indo-european language to britain. The so called first farmers have left very little trace in our current DNA, even less than the Neanderthal whose genes is still in our DNA( ca 1,5-2,0 %) so it is probable that the two groups did not mix very much.

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

.....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

Probably the poor numbnutz that dragged it in place. 

not_nadine

I looked in my book including index. They only mention of it is on the cover.

GNTLGNT

Kurben said:

GNTLGNT said:

.....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

Quite correct. The place where Stonehenge now stands were used for approximately 50 cremation burials (might even be the first cremation burials at least in europe, they are very early) whose remains were buried there and found in some potholes.. That was ca 3100 BC-2700 or 2600 BC. Then that all stopped and they built what we today call Stonehenge and no further burials took place. The Standing stones with the slabs on top of them which is what we most often mean with Stonehenge was built ca 2500 BC. There are also some graves relatively close to from different times but since it is the Salisbury plain thats not really strange since people lived and worked there. Stonehenge has gone through many restaurations since then but they took place after the main construction was up and are relatively minor even if you still can see some of them today. All i meant was that since the Stoneslabs were erected in 2500 BC no burial were done at the site of Stonehenge. DNA suggests that the first phase included some construction (postholes and similar things have been found plus two, maybe three stones belong to that phase plus the burials. That was the first farmer invasion of britain. But ca 500 years later different DNA belonging to what is known in Europe as the Bell Beaker culture crossed from france. It is believed they took over and it was they who built Stonehenge. We know it was Bell Beakers from their distinctive pottery found close by. Archaeologists believe it was these people who brought the Indo-european language to britain. The so called first farmers have left very little trace in our current DNA, even less than the Neanderthal whose genes is still in our DNA( ca 1,5-2,0 %) so it is probable that the two groups did not mix very much.

....thanks for the concise history!....I've watched a few shows, but was unsure of the burial timelines....

not_nadine

I listen to audio books before I go to sleep.
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. It is excellent and I must buy the book. Yes I have seen the movie.

I found the chirp app. Many audiobooks for very reasonable price. I really didn't like audio books at first  and the thought of it -I guess it depends on the narrator.

not_nadine

I am also rereading  The Dead zone. Good Lord the similarities to you know who are eerie. 

Kurben

reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky . On recommendation from my brother. Started really well. Am 6 chapters in and its a great read so far. Always nice to find a new great SF author. Doesn't happen too often. 

GNTLGNT

...just completed Never Flinch.....enjoyed the hell out of it, but I can see why he had fits & starts moments getting this one tied up in a bow......enjoyed some tasty Easter eggs as well....

Hedda Gabler

I am having a serious problem reading.  Focus gone, want to sleep. 

FlakeNoir

Hedda Gabler said:

I am having a serious problem reading.  Focus gone, want to sleep. 

I have reader's block. I hope it's not terminal. 🥺

Kurben

Reading Nemesis by Max Hastings. A history of the last years of the pacific war against Japan 1944-45. That means that the big defeats like Pearl Harbor and Singapore and others as well as the big victories like Midway and Guadalcanal were in the past. It is extremely informative but perhaps not as well written and well told as other books by Hastings. Still very well researched and has parts were the narrative jumps to life and you get really involved but it also has parts where the narrative is strained. If you are reading history books for enjoyment perhaps not but as a source of information and as part of a reference library, absolutely. And even if the book is focused on the last years of the war, which is ok, i think it would have been a good idea to have a chapter or two about what has gone before, like Pearl and Midway and Guadalcanal. Just the main stops so you get a better context, you can skip alot like the Doolittle raid and other things. 

not_nadine

I just ordered Ernest Hemingway - To Have and to Have Not. 

I'll be house sitting in Key West for a while and I haven't visited his home yet and see his generational six-toed cats. 

Kurben

am deep in Henry VIII: The Heart & The Crown. Its a historical novel told in I perspective from Henry,s standpoint. Its written by Alison Weir who is a good historian specialized in Tudor times so she knows what shes talking about when it comes to what happened. Here she uses the novel format to bring henrys thoughts to life, what he thought of his friends enemies and family including his 6 wifes and, at least, 12 mistresses. its an interesting take on Henry. I have read a biography from her on the same man but this is not a history, this is his story told by himself and he himself see just a great guy that everyone ought to love. And from the beginning what he wants most is an heir. Which he does not get for a long time. which certainly effects his thoughts more and more as time passes.

Hedda Gabler

Sounds good Kurben. 

GNTLGNT

....honestly, with all the skirt he was chasing-how in the hell did he manage to be so rotund?.....