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ancient Rome, a comforting result.

I would be interested in visiting Bronze Age Europe, but am not sure how happy the residents of the period would be to see me poking around their villages. I would probably change my ticket at the last moment, and instead visit a less remote time and place, like 18th century Philadelphia.

Perhaps a mild form of patriotism.

I enjoyed many Halloweens during the 1950's in a racially mixed suburban community adjoining Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The night before Halloween was called Mischief Night which was a sort of Saturnalia during which acts of minor vandalism and harassment were permitted. I suspect Mischief...

Killed the thread just as I was about to post some truly profound recollections of Halloween In the United States during the 1950's.

It may be time to harrow Nicola Tesla with the DSM-5, The People need to know.

With regard to sea water, pozzolon concretes have a tighter pore structure and resist the infiltration of chlorine ions, which are destructive.

We don't know enough about the motivations of either cultural group to argue for much of a connection, beyond the behavior of both cultures perhaps being informed by animism. In the most general terms it could be suggested that both cultures may be providing a funeral for an inanimate object...

Further investigation convinces me that the figure in the lower right corner is a female wearing her hair drawn back into a tight bun. She is dancing with another member of the party whose garment is partially visible. The beer hookah might actually be a large cephalopod, though it is hard to...

The fellow in the lower right is clearly making for the restroom.

The biomass available as dry fuel would tend to be quite high in a large village of long-standing wattle and daub houses, even the daub would contain fuel in the form of straw binder material and dung. Ceramic conversion of the clay component is contingent upon temperature though, not fuel...

The observation that vegetation grows better on a burned over habitation site doesn't imply that the farmers were aware that fertilizers could be created and employed to improve soil fertility. A more likely conclusion on the part of the farmers is that there is a spiritual connection between...

Perhaps they were producing anthropogenic soils to counteract soil depletion. Organic detritus, fragmentary ceramic material and charcoal constitute the basic recipe for terra preta. Anthropogenic soils in pre-Columbian Amazonia sustained large populations which vanished after European diseases...

Anybody got a link to the published archaeology of this massacre?