Brit-Am Research Sources (4 January 2018, 17 Tevet, 5778)
Contents:
1. Origins of the Population of Lichtenstein
2. Megaltihs and Dolmens in Ancient Israel
3. Does Celtic Art have links with Asia?
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1. Origins of the Population of Lichtenstein. Not German
How did Liechtenstein remain neutral during WW2? The people of Liechtenstein are of German origin, so shouldn't that have been a good enough reason for Hitler to invade the country?
https://www.quora.com/
Answer: by Rogier van der Heide
Extract:
I don't think that the people of Liechtenstein are necessarily 'of German origin', whatever that may be. During the early Middle Ages, in the area that is now Liechtenstein, Allemanic people lived, similar to those in the French Alsace and the North of Switzerland. In the early 14th century, the Walser people settled in Liechtenstein, who came from the upper Rhone river, and who live(d) also in Switzerland and the North of Italy. These are the two main groups who settled in what is now Liechtenstein.
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2. Megaltihs and Dolmens in Ancient Israel
Of Stones and Social Complexity - The Shamir Dolmen Field and the Intermediate Bronze Age
The Ancient Near East Today vol. v, no. xii Dec, 2017 By Uri Berger and Gonen Sharon
http://asorblog.org/2017/12/19/stones-social-complexity-shamir-dolmen-field-intermediate-bronze-age/
Recent research suggests that east of the Jordan Rift Valley and south of the Yarmuk River dolmen burial was a common practice during the Early Bronze Age I (mid-4th millennium BCE). This supports the suggestion that the dolmens of the Golan and Galilee should be distinguished from those east of the Jordan Rift Valley. The Golan dolmens differ from the southern dolmens in the type of rock used for construction (basalt vs. limestone and sandstone), in size (typically much larger), in their design (typically passage tombs covered by an earthen tumulus), building technology (unworked stones), and in their chronology. It seems that the Golan and Galilee dolmens find their cultural roots in the north, in the megalithic traditions of Syria and Anatolia. In all of the many dolmens excavated and surveyed in the Golan and its escarpments, the earliest material unearthed clearly belongs to the Intermediate Bronze Age (IBA, ca. 2500-2000 BCE).
Chronology. All finds to date from the Shamir Dolmen Field support dating to the IBA and Dolmen 3 is no exception. In Dolmen 3, numerous ceramic sherds were uncovered in the immediate context of the human bones, probably the remains of grave goods offered at burial. All of the sherds found in Dolmen 3 fall within the 'north family' defined for the Levantine IBA pottery. Dating the actual burials and its association with the building of the dolmen is less secure due to the presence of colorful beads of different sizes and shapes collected during the sieving of the sediments, as well as small metal pieces, possibly the remains of a fibula pin. Some of the beads can only be assigned to later periods suggesting they are later intrusions. Nevertheless, the overwhelming evidence suggests that the actual construction of Dolmen 3 is well-dated to the IBA.
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3. Does Celtic Art have links with Asia?
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-10-07-does-celtic-art-have-links-asia
One main line of enquiry is the relationship between the central European Celts and their nomadic Eurasian neighbours (often referred to as Scythians or Sarmatians), who inhabited the European end of a grassland (steppe) corridor that stretched east towards Central Asia and China. Longstanding routes of communication across these semi-deserts and steppes, which later formed part of the Silk Road, are known to have played a significant role in earlier artistic and cultural exchanges between East and West.
Iron Age tombs frozen in the mountains of Siberia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan have yielded Roman glass, Chinese silk, and Central Asian textiles, alongside a wealth of local materials, whose elaborate designs, though clearly different, express themes which resonate with the swirling styles of Celtic Art.
Bronze terret with blue and red enamelled decoration found in Britain dates from the Iron Age.