seeder Posted August 23, 2016 #1 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Quote The mystery Stone Age slabs in Scotland: Scientists baffled by bizarre 5,400-year-old structure found under a rubbish dump Archaeologists unearthed the stone building at Ness of Brodgar, Orkney They found it while excavating a Neolithic midden, or rubbish dump It is on the site of a Stone Age settlement thought to include a temple New structure predates this and contains slabs from an old stone circle http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3754593/The-mystery-Stone-Age-slabs-Scotland-Scientists-baffled-bizarre-5-400-year-old-structure-Neolithic-rubbish-dump.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorybebe Posted August 23, 2016 #2 Share Posted August 23, 2016 There is so much more to find all over the world. Every find is fascinating to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted August 23, 2016 #3 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Scientists are always baffled in a 'Daily Mail' story. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podo Posted August 23, 2016 #4 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Seems interesting. I wonder who made the slabs, and why. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted August 23, 2016 #5 Share Posted August 23, 2016 "Scientists baffled" Sigh. Other than that, cool story, great find. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted August 25, 2016 #6 Share Posted August 25, 2016 They always find ancient stuff in Orkney. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted August 25, 2016 #7 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Great find indeed!! Stuff like this proves we've been capable of anything for a very very long time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harte Posted August 26, 2016 #8 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Scientists are uncommonly vulnerable to bafflification it seems while ordinary people are only subject to astonishment which, although often chronic, still represents a lower order of stupefication. Harte 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSilhouette Posted August 27, 2016 #9 Share Posted August 27, 2016 (edited) Contrary to what some believe (like a religion), not everything there is to know yet about the earth has already been discovered and explained away by "the experts"... From the link in the OP: Quote The way the stones are built into the construction is also unique to the Ness. This all suggests that they may have been re-used and taken from elsewhere....'Perhaps they may be part of a stone circle that pre-dates the main Ness site. It is all a bit of mystery.'..... Excavations have revealed the remains of a Neolithic settlement elsewhere on the site, including several houses and what is thought to have even been a temple. Pottery, stone tools and a clay figurine have also been uncovered at the site. Last month a human arm bone was uncovered at the site. It is thought to have been inhabited between 3,200BC and 2,200BC, Edited August 28, 2016 by Saru No drama please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted August 27, 2016 #10 Share Posted August 27, 2016 19 hours ago, Harte said: Scientists are uncommonly vulnerable to bafflification it seems while ordinary people are only subject to astonishment which, although often chronic, still represents a lower order of stupefication. Harte Oh .. come on man! .... Slabs ! ...... made of stone ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted August 27, 2016 #11 Share Posted August 27, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, SSilhouette said: ... Contrary to what some believe (like a religion), not everything there is to know yet about the earth has already been discovered and explained away by "the experts"... Of course it hasn't ! What made you think it had ? One thing I like about Orkney (for example ) is that , as more is found out and understood and collated about it, it helps develop the bigger picture. Its ongoing ... that's why people still research stuff . Such attitudes I dont really find here , more on religious topics themselves I suppose . However, I do notice that some in 'opposition' seem to me to be 'religiously irrational' about their fringe ides . Ten years ago, I myself had never heard of Orkney ( well, not the archaeology , I thought they made good wool clothing , or something ) ..... but that was due to my own ignorance . Edited August 27, 2016 by back to earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles K Posted September 5, 2016 #12 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Hmmmmmmmmm Just to guess... could be an old temple.... and then a change of culture, a new people arose, a new religion, treated the old site with disdain. Chucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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