anyone background in this field able to chime in on how accurate this is? I read it briefly and looked up alpha/omega and the “chi-rho” but not sure how they got that out of some random blotches that are barely visible. Seems like generous interpretation may have been used. I can see how they may be able to verify its a tattoo by looking at the materials the blotch is made of, but superimposing an image of what it “is” seems like a stretch to me without knowing more about this.
In the first stage, archaeologists opened eight trenches and found a necropolis with nearly 150 urn graves, rock tombs and earthen graves, which were determined to belong to the Iron Age Assyrian civilization dating back to the first millennium B.C., in an area of approximately 100 square meters.
Spears, arrowheads, daggers, knives, swords and a wide variety of war materials, thought to belong to the dead, were unearthed in the urn graves, where the remaining bones of the dead were buried after being cremated.
Ok, now that we got the obvious joke out of the way, are we really going to find out anything new about the Assyrians from this site? I thought their civilization was already well documented?
Is that really that hard to understand? Somebody sees a fireball falling from the sky. They investigate it, and it turns out to be a very strong material, great for making weapons with. It wasn’t as obvious to the British in 19th century, because iron is most commonly mined everywhere. Since there was no iron mining back when they first started using it, they had no confusion realizing it came from the sky.
we forgot like 95% of our native culinary practices with the world wars, globalization, industrial farming and the commodification of food. I’ve been getting into foraging and permaculture, and it’s insane how much amazing food you’re missing out on, if you’re just eating what someone else can profitably sell.
If you watch some videos on coastal foraging in the UK, it’s insane. There’s food everywhere. Even with just my amateur knowledge in foraging, there’s food everywhere.
I need to look into foraging. I am sure there are tons of things even in landlocked Colo. I was surprised to find weeds in my yard that are an ancient grain, for example.
Yeah I’ve had common evening-primrose, prickly lettuce, tall hedge mustard as spicy as wasabi, chicken of the woods killing our plum tree lol, now what looks like artist’s bracket too in our garden this year. But to be fair most of these seem to grow almost everywhere. Once you learn to identify one of these you will really see them everywhere.
I’m just a beginner and I live a totally different biome, not sure I can help you much. I guess learn the basics of foraging and plant&mushroom ID (like never eat something you aren’t certain you’ve identified correctly). See if there’s any local organizations that can help you out. If you’re a social type you could make friends with some local forager and gather seeds and plants to propagate. If not, buy some books about your local area, find a foraging YouTuber in your area. I generally use plant&mushroom ID apps to scan everything I see, look up the plant and what its uses are, what are common poisonous lookalikes. You will get the hang of it pretty quickly and have a few plants that you can confidently identify. I’ve looked it up and perhaps you can find these in your local area: Cattails, Watercress, Water Mint, Water Lily, wapato, Water Hyacinth, Elderberry, Pawpaw, Fiddlehead Ferns and it seems many of the culinary and medicinal mushrooms should grow where you live too.
I guess if you’re planning to grow non-natives too, you could try to plant some perannial/ self-propagating/hardy staple crops. Taro, water spinach, wild rice, lotus, sorghum etc… Perhaps the Chinampa technique works in a swamp? Perhaps you could use the swamp water for self-wicking raised garden beds to grow regular crops that are pretty hands off like sweet potatoes. Might want to do a water test to check for salinity and excess nutrients tho.
I guess you can always have some gator barbecue too, if you are so inclined.
I remember my dad harvesting different kinds at the beach and frying them. Healthy, nutritious, tasty, the only reason its not a staple seems to be that it may not be profitable.
I’ve heard that most types of seaweed might lightly aid against radiation damage but thats a good point.
From all the school reports the one that stuck to me the most is microplastics. I wasn’t even doing the report, i cant remember what my own subject was but microplastics are truly one of the most awfull consequences of humankind. Makes me sad just thinking about it.
Wow, that's far bigger than I was expecting considering how far Serbia is from the sea. I know the Danube is a big river, but still, this is over 600 km from the mouth as the crow flies
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