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We are all brown skinned.  Some of us are darker, some lighter, but ALL are brown.

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11 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

Humans are made in God’s image, so God is brown skinned NOT white skinned.

If humans are made in God's image, then it would seem God has an enormous amount of ear and nostril hair.

 

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If all humans, with all the different complexions, heights, weights and hair, and skin colors, are made in God's image, then one must infer that things such as race are irrelevant, mere minor details of what makes human beings human.

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Or brown people aren't really in God's image so it's fair to exploit them.  Or "image" is a wider concept than skin colour.

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1 hour ago, R011 said:

Or brown people aren't really in God's image so it's fair to exploit them.  Or "image" is a wider concept than skin colour.

Dunno. Is that what the Great Architect of the Universe teachs?

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20 hours ago, R011 said:

Or brown people aren't really in God's image so it's fair to exploit them.  Or "image" is a wider concept than skin colour.

It is quite emphasized that we must not use our imagination to create that "image". Maybe it is a narrower concept, meaning that we create, too.

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Ancient skulls show Anglo-Saxon identity was more cultural than genetic

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Our Anglo-Saxon sample comprised 89 individuals from five cemeteries in the English counties of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Kent. Three of the cemeteries date to the Early Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 410-660), while the other two date to the Middle Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 660-889). We also collected data on 101 pre-Medieval skeletons from two sites in southern England and 46 individuals from various sites in Denmark that date to the Iron Age (800 BC-AD 399).

 

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This could have been because being Anglo-Saxon was perceived as higher status than being Romano-British. Alternatively, it could simply have been a consequence of people randomly copying one another. This process, which is known as “cultural drift,” has been shown to be able to account for a number of cultural patterns in recent history.

Regardless of the cause of the change in composition, it is clear from our results that being an Anglo-Saxon was more a matter of language and culture than genetics.

 

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Instead, it appears that the Anglo-Saxons were a group of individuals of diverse ancestries who shared a common language and culture. The same holds for the Vikings. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings were, in other words, strikingly similar to the multiracial societies of contemporary northern Europe.

 

Oh noes, there goes white supremacy, comes Hollywood actor/actress of color. Really nothing new under the Sun.

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Please, alert us when they find an Anglo-Saxon with a Melanesian or Japanese gene setup.

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42 minutes ago, sunday said:

Please, alert us when they find an Anglo-Saxon with a Melanesian or Japanese gene setup.

With all those Englishmen named Lee (or should I write Li?), anything is possible. 😜

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On 7/16/2021 at 4:29 PM, Adam Peter said:


 

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The animal’s skull clearly identifies it as a domestic pig, as opposed to a wild swine, and its presence indicates that pigs were raised for food in the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, says Lidar Sapir-Hen, an archaeozoologist at Tel Aviv University and at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.

The fact that the skeleton was found intact suggests that this specific piglet, less than seven months old, was not eaten, but died accidentally when the building was destroyed at some point in the eighth century B.C.E, Sapir-Hen and colleagues report.

 

 

So we've leaped from the singular data point of one intact uneaten piglet skeleton estimated to be 2700 years old, to Jews in that city in that timeframe being widely non-observant to Mosaic dietary laws.

It couldn't possibly be that Jewish cities, back in the day, were polyglot in ethnicity and religion.

 

 

 

 

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https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reconstruct-the-last-meal-of-a-man-mummified-2400-years-ago
 

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Roughly a day before the Tollund Man was hung and buried in the bog, researchers say he ate porridge, containing barley, flax, and seeds from plants and weeds.

That's similar to what scientists found in the early 1950s, when the body was first unearthed in what is now modern Denmark. But unlike past analyses, this one has also noticed a few new ingredients, like the fatty proteins of fish as well as remnants of threshing waste, which comes from separating grain.

That's an intriguing discovery, as a recent analysis of another bog body, known as the Grauballe Man, has also turned up a surprisingly large quantity of threshing waste not noticed before.

 

The article provides a link to the source, which will be of interest to many of you; the Antiquity journal.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/latest-issue

 

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remarkable is the amount of parasites and stuff he had, considering how´´ healthy´´ by current thinking his life must have been....

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4 hours ago, bd1 said:

remarkable is the amount of parasites and stuff he had, considering how´´ healthy´´ by current thinking his life must have been....

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Idea that nobody lived past 30 is as ridiculous as an idea that they have lived healthy lifestyles.

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Agreeing with Bojan here - average age of death is just another misleading statistic.

If you made it through the infant mortality phase, you would live substantially longer. 

Nowadays, of course, you don't die of toothache or a burst appendix, or being gored by your dinner, so perhaps some of it balances out.

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i should have inserted a emoticon of some sort probably, anyway the sheer size of zoo inside the man was remarkable. 

when my archeologist wife showed me this couple days ago, she remarked that one can imagine how life would have been, what were the threats etc, but when you look at the zoo inside the man and you realise that if you live decades in such enviroment , you at one point or another will pickup some fish parasites, tapeworms etc. inevitably.

she has shown me at her workplace enough skulls and bones of all varieties and eras, that i know that neither stone-age diets/´being one with the nature´ nor medievial living standards are something i´d look forward to

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10 hours ago, bojan said:

Idea that nobody lived past 30 is as ridiculous as an idea that they have lived healthy lifestyles.

I suspect ending the sentence with "infant mortality, accidents, homicides, and infections aside, most people die in their sixties." wouldn't have been as funny or made the point the cartoonist was trying to make.

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On 7/25/2021 at 5:08 PM, Ivanhoe said:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reconstruct-the-last-meal-of-a-man-mummified-2400-years-ago
 

The article provides a link to the source, which will be of interest to many of you; the Antiquity journal.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/latest-issue

 

A display of incompetence on my part after three cups of coffee, but I do not see the Tollund man mentioned in the article in the link.

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19 minutes ago, Rick said:

A display of incompetence on my part after three cups of coffee, but I do not see the Tollund man mentioned in the article in the link.

First link, not the second one.

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55 minutes ago, sunday said:

First link, not the second one.

Ah-ha, thank you sunday. Surprised by the amount of sand he ingested. 

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7 hours ago, Rick said:

Ah-ha, thank you sunday. Surprised by the amount of sand he ingested. 

I made the same mistake... 😅

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On 7/27/2021 at 12:55 PM, bd1 said:

she has shown me at her workplace enough skulls and bones of all varieties and eras, that i know that neither stone-age diets/´being one with the nature´ nor medievial living standards are something i´d look forward to

Considering the violent end of so many bronze- and iron-age skeletons found in peat bogs, pre-Christian times in the Scuppered Isles must have been more violent than modern-day Chicago. So yeah, the good old times may not have been totally idyllic.

Then again, maybe the skeleton data cannot be generalized, and simply shows the inherent savagery of British folks...

 

 

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