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A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 15th May 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:So what we should really be looking for is evidence for widespread malaria in the Iron Age population?
Does malaria show up in bones?
Standing water does not = malaria
Although I think malaria was common in some areas of this country in recent recorded history, so maybe.
A handbook for new diggers? - P Prentice - 15th May 2012
Jack Wrote:Pits are interesting. Its just we haven't worked out just how interesting yet...............(especially when they are most of what survives of ancient activities).
But maybe if they were called 'reservoirs of ancient soil, artefacts and activities' then they may seem more interesting.
The word 'pit' hides the mysteries hidden within under the mundane imagery of some navvy leaning on a shovel and surveying their work.
Pit (n.) 1: a large hole in the ground; a mine or excavation for coal or minerals....etc.
-- Concise Oxford English Dictionary
blimey jack 0 you started to look with the sun on your back!
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 15th May 2012
Jack Wrote:Does malaria show up in bones?
Think there's an article on it in 'Roman Diasporas', although don't bother looking for it in our favourite university library just now, think the students have been set another essay, both copies have half a dozen 'holds' on :-(
Think the answer's theoretically a conditional yes, if the population you're looking at is big enough, combination of stress-factors and age profile if my memory serves me right - so no chance of tracing it in our local Iron Age funerary population of about 3 manky skellies (my last one was a tiny bit of cranium, two teeth and a couple of finger bones)
A handbook for new diggers? - CARTOON REALITY - 15th May 2012
Quote:3 manky skellies (my last one was a tiny bit of cranium, two teeth and a couple of finger bones)
Did you find them in a recessed enigma?
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 16th May 2012
Only a very shallow truncated one, thanks to some medieval castle builders. Good sewer pipe trench that, half a dozen of those recessed enigmas including the body, a Neolithic one complete with a decorated slab of pot, a 6th-7th century one, late Saxon and Norman, oh, and the corner of a Roman building. Why do people muck about with big sites? - had the potted history of Britain in one small hole :face-approve:
...had to add several sections to the report though
A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 16th May 2012
P Prentice Wrote:blimey jack 0 you started to look with the sun on your back!
Sun on my back?
Is that a reference to cosmologies or just my sunny disposition?
A handbook for new diggers? - Dinosaur - 16th May 2012
Means your jeans are a bit low again.....
A handbook for new diggers? - P Prentice - 16th May 2012
Jack Wrote:Sun on my back?
Is that a reference to cosmologies or just my sunny disposition?
its about looking
A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 16th May 2012
P Prentice Wrote:its about looking
I'm always looking..............for evidence that is
But your right, the sun of current thought and publications can blind you to the minutia of evidence
A handbook for new diggers? - Jack - 16th May 2012
Dinosaur Wrote:Means your jeans are a bit low again.....
When have you ever seen me wear jeans??