Love how ‘everyone just knew’ there weren’t any large ancient civilizations in the Amazon even though they’d never bothered looking. Glad someone is finally setting the record straight.
The issue is the fragility of religious nation-states vs their ancient artefacts. If (say) the UK is happy to protect ancient artefacts against insane religious zealots of X country against destruction of XYZ, the I’m 100% behind the UK.
So, hunter-gatherer societies used their mouth to hold stuff more frequently then settled ones. Is that the TLDR? And teeth marks from post mortem practices and from eating are distinct from holding stuff with your teeth.
The holes at the bottom were probably tacked into a strip of leather and secured, and I’d imagine there’s some sort of stud or hook on the backside of the buckle.
They say devouring a frog, I say biting a dude’s nuts off.
For real though, what a neat buckle. Since they think it was related to an unknown pagan cult, I wonder what the purpose of wearing the symbol on the belt was? For others to see you were part of the cult (assuming it was worn visibly)?
Could it not just be a war trophy? The frog representing some “barbaric hoard” that the great dragon king put down? What is it that makes it pagan besides the lack of a cross?
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