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Bell Beaker Blogger: Necessity of DNA in Determining Gender - (Forbes Magazine)

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Beaker in 10 Sentences. Join European Prehistory a nd Genetics [google ]. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Necessity of DNA in Determining Gender - (Forbes Magazine). If you read the popular archaeology outlets, you probably saw the articles about the mother and son killed in a tragic embrace during a volcanic eruption. This article by Kristina Killgrove raises an interesting question about the relationship between the two based on mtdna. Secondly, archaeology is about relationships. After all, aren't we in...

Bell Beaker Blogger: June 2015

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Beaker in 10 Sentences. Join European Prehistory a nd Genetics [google ]. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Reefing and Tacking, Libya to Crete. Could Bronze Age sailors sail. Across open water from Libya to Crete during the calm summer months? Michelle Creisher's thesis looks at this question. There's several questions that the author asks. 1 What were the wind conditions in the Mediterranean in the second and first millennium? 2 Were some Bronze Age vessels built for the open water? First, if we peel the onion b...

Bell Beaker Blogger: Women in Iberia (Liesau, Blasco, Rios, Flores)

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Beaker in 10 Sentences. Join European Prehistory a nd Genetics [google ]. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Women in Iberia (Liesau, Blasco, Rios, Flores). Above all, when constructing paradigms, wear safety goggles and blast shield. Most of the women discussed in this paper died in their twenties. Two of the women appear to have been beheaded, one had an obviously altered skull, one a headdress and a couple with guns. Girls with Guns - and Infants" Los Humanejos (UE 1166). No heads. As with the Welshman from...

Bell Beaker Blogger: Solar Jewelry - Mary Cahill

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Beaker in 10 Sentences. Join European Prehistory a nd Genetics [google ]. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Solar Jewelry - Mary Cahill. Here Comes the Sun" is a short article by Mary Cahill in the Spring 2015 Archaeology Ireland. Many items manufactured by Beakers, whether it was houses, jet buttons, boar's tusks or pottery, in some way incorporate explicit or metaphoric associations with solar religion. This article looks at some of those associations found in Beaker gold. Continuing with Greek mythology as a...

Bell Beaker Blogger: Composite and Compound Bows of the Sahara (Jean-Lois Le Quellec)

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Beaker in 10 Sentences. Join European Prehistory a nd Genetics [google ]. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Composite and Compound Bows of the Sahara (Jean-Lois Le Quellec). Suspected that some Bell Beaker archers possibly used compounded or composite-laminate bows. He had reasons for this view, one of which was the amulets of Central Europe [here]. Which also have a parallel among African diaryists [here]. Camouflaged Archer from Tassili n'Ajjer. But first, a little background. And that the beaker herringbon...