Comments on: Garden archaeology has much to teach conventional archaeological exploitation https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation/ Gardenvisit.com Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation/#comment-1592 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:08 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3456#comment-1592 No doubt there was much fighting – but the men may well have enjoyed it. One remember’s General Patton’s regret at the end of the First World War: he loved blod, guts and war.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation/#comment-1591 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:39:36 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3456#comment-1591 I am not sure whether the burial mound found near Halle illustrates violence based on intra or inter clan rivalry? [ http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-05-30-mutilated-bronze-age-lord-found-in-germany ]

Excavations at a Bronze Age site similar to Stonehenge (but constructed of wood) have unearthed some interesting facts on life during this period of history. During the Bronze Age trade was developing based on ore, amber and salt. [ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,568738,00.html ]

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation/#comment-1590 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:05:40 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3456#comment-1590 The old view was that Stone Age life was ‘nasty, brutal and short’. The current view is that it was much better than the Neolithic lifestyle. Genesis 3:19 puts it this way: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Bronze Age Europe may have had the best of both worlds: constant availability of meat and fish with enough grain to make, should one wish it, a hamburger.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/garden-archaeology-has-much-to-teach-conventional-archaeological-exploitation/#comment-1589 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:25:56 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=3456#comment-1589 The photograph above makes living in Bronze Age Germany seem akin to a resort lifestyle! It is a very beautiful setting, but the lifestyle demands may have been not quite so idyllic?

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