Brit-Am Research Sources
(12 November, 2019, 14 Cheshvan, 5780)
Contents:
1. Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Aurora's Sky Glow.
2. Stonehenge linked with Aurochs (unicorns?).
3. Ancient Shiloh.
4. Study suggests copper from the Great Orme mine in Wales was widely traded throughout Europe.
5. Wheat Silos from Ancient Israel Re-appeared in Celtic Britain?
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1. Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Aurora's Sky Glow.
By Mindy Weisberger
https://www.livescience.com/earliest-written-aurora-records.html?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Extracts:
Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago.
The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets, dating from 655 B.C. to 679 B.C.
Auroras are dazzling light shows that take place when waves of charged particles from the sun collide with Earth's magnetic field. Earth was likely visited by an immense solar storm around the seventh century B.C., and the auroras described in the tablets may have been the result of that powerful solar activity, the study authors wrote online Oct. 7 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Earlier this year, another team of researchers found that a massive solar storm, about 10 times stronger than any in modern history, swept over Earth around 2,600 years ago. Fingerprints of this storm's intense geomagnetic bombardment were left behind as radioactive atoms trapped in Greenland's ice, Live Science previously reported.
The authors of the new study wondered if Assyrian astrologists from that period might have recorded anything unusual that could be linked to the solar storm. The researchers investigated 389 reports on cuneiform tablets in the collection of the British Museum; most of the reports described planetary and lunar activity. But three records noted phenomena that were likely candidates for auroras: "red glow," "red cloud" and "red sky," according to the study.
"These descriptions themselves are quite consistent with the early modern descriptions of auroral display," Hayakawa told Live Science in an email. Indeed, red is a color typically found in low-altitude auroras and in auroras produced by low-energy electrons, the researchers reported.
Today, auroras in the Northern Hemisphere are usually associated with regions close to the North Pole. But Earth's magnetic field is dynamic and changing, and thousands of years ago, magnetic north was about 10 degrees closer to the Middle East than it is today, increasing the likelihood of spectacular aurora displays in that part of the world, the study authors reported.
Prior to this discovery, the earliest known reference to an aurora was in a Babylonian tablet known as the "Astronomical Diaries," dating to 567 B.C.
Brit-Am Relevancy:
This show changes in Solar Activity, magnetic fields, etc. at around the same time the Ten Tribes were exiled.
It may be worth keeping in mind.
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2. Stonehenge linked with Aurochs (unicorns)?
Britain's first city discovered as archaeologists say it was home of people who built Stonehenge
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/11/02/britains-first-city-discovered-archaeologists-say-home-people/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Sarah Knapton
Extracts:
Britain's first 'city' arose near an ancient spring on Salisbury Plain, and its inhabitants probably built Stonehenge, archaeologists believe.
Blick Mead lies just a mile away from the Wiltshire stone circle, and experts have uncovered more than 70,000 stone tools at the site, as well as an intriguing ceremonial platform suggesting the area held ritual importance for prehistoric hunter-gatherers who lived there 10,000 years ago.
Although hunter-gatherer populations rarely settle in one place, Professor David Jacques of the University of Buckingham, believes the site may have been a permanent encampment where at least the children, elderly and sick lived.
When you look at Stonehenge you think, 'but where are the people?' said Prof Jacques. 'It makes sense that if you want to find the people who built it, the obvious idea is to look for where the water is.
Britain's first city discovered as home of people who built Stonehenge, archaeologists say
'At Blick Mead we found shed loads of stuff. Up until 2006 only 30 finds had ever been recovered from this period at any one site, and now we're up to more than 70,000, so it's been a total gamechanger.
'We're talking about a very small area that people were coming to again and again and I think it was probably some sort of permanent settlement, so all our ideas of how hunter gatherers move around in dispersed communities needs to be revised.
'This makes Stonehenge more interesting because it gives it a longer history, linking it back to people from the Mesolithic. Blick Mead really is the cradle of Stonehenge.'
Today Blick Mead is a small watercourse, but in the Mesolithic period it was at the centre of a flood plain, and a huge river ran through the site, providing reliable water throughout the year. A rare algae called hildenbrandia also grows in the spring, which turns stones red, adding to its magical appeal.
And at a time where most of Britain was covered in a dense forest, pollen samples from 8,000 year old laters show it was open country in which supersized extinct cattle called aurochs roamed.
Archaeologists think that ancient Britons settled in the area because it was where the aurochs were, and they regarded the animals as sacred as well as crucial for food. Just one male bull would have fed 300 people and soil analysis from 8,000 year old Mesolithic layers shows spores from fungus that grows on the dung of cattle.
Aurochs skulls and bones were also placed deliberately in ditches at Stonehenge, suggesting that its builders held the animals as sacred, and provides a link between the people of Blick Mead and the monument builders of the megalithic monument.
The results from recent excavations are presented in a new documentary, Lost Cities, for the National Geographic channel.
Scientist and presenter Dr Albert Lin said: If there was a lost city of Blick Mead if would have been made of timber which has now rotted away.
Blick Mead was an important place where the early humans that roamed here, maybe even one of the first manifestations of a human city. Makes sense. A river for transport, for fish, a landscape perfect for hunting big game.
Aurochs were sacred to the people of Stonehenge and Blick Mead. Perhaps Blick Mead was one of Europe's first cities.
Ground penetrating radar recently picked up evidence of a 30ft structure beneath the ground at Blick Meade which when excavated this summer was found to be made from carefully placed flints. And beneath the platform was a perfectly preserved set of aurochs footprints.
'It's like a jetty and I think it had multiple uses,' said Prof Jacques. 'It has a gentle slope down to the water so it would have been useful to pull up a boat. But the interesting thing is it's made of stone. Other examples of platforms from this time are made of wood, so this suggests it had an air of permanence.'
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3. Ancient Shiloh
(a)
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-chance-discovery-changes-everything-we-know-about-biblical-israel-1.8003920
WAS THE CORNER OF GOD'S ALTAR FOUND IN SHILOH, WEST BANK?
The discovery, said Dr. Scott Stripling, is consistent with what he expected to find in the fields of the ancient city where the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant once stood.
BY MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Was-the-corner-of-Gods-altar-found-in-Shiloh-West-Bank-606477
(b)
Excavation at site of ancient Shiloh offers evidence for biblical accounts
https://aleteia.org/2019/11/02/excavation-at-site-of-ancient-shiloh-offers-evidence-for-biblical-accounts/
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4. Study suggests copper from the Great Orme mine in Wales was widely traded throughout Europe:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-50213846
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8144-191030-wales-copper-mine
Extract:
CONWY, WALES. According to a BBC News report, the Great Orme mine in northern Wales was Britain's primary producer of copper during a mining boom that lasted from about 1600 to 1400 B.C. Geoarchaeologist Alan Williams of the University of Liverpool and University of Rennes archaeometallurgy specialist Cecile Le Carlier de Veslud analyzed copper ore from the mine, which scholars had previously thought was only a limited operation during the Bronze Age, and found that the metal was used to make bronze weapons and tools that have been discovered across Britain as well as in France, Germany, and Sweden. During the 200-year spike in activity at Great Orme, Williams estimates that miners produced several hundred tons of copper, an amount sufficient to make thousands of bronze objects each year.
cf.
Welsh Hebrews. Israelite Children from the TTs Separated and Exiled to Wales???
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/childrenwales.html
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5. Wheat Silos from Ancient Israel Re-appeared in Celtic Britain?
Zamir Cohen, "Biblical Archaeology" (in Hebrew) p.40,
# Buffered Grain Stores. The multitude of Grain Siloes like these was characteristic of Israelite settlement in contrast to the few isolated examples revealed from the Canaanite Period. #
cf. "Ancestry," ch.17
https://hebrewnations.com/publications/books/ancestry.html
Wheat Siloes
In Britain the Celts used [buffered] wheat silos extensively and for a long period of time even though they are now considered to have been unsuitable for British climatic conditions. [Buffered] Wheat silos were unknown in Gaul except for the Land of the Caletes who traded with Britain. Silos were known in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa, in Thrace for a limited early period, in southern Scythia, and in Cappadocia of Northeast Turkey. The same type of silo was also used in Ancient Israel from the 1000s BCE. i.e. prior to the exile (de Rougemont p.246).
