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| Source: See Antiquity link below. |
About 3,700 years ago, a man and a woman were buried together in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Their tomb was an ovoid jar beneath the floor of a grand hall in an expansive hilltop complex known as La Almoloya, in what is now Murcia, Spain. It’s one of many archaeological sites associated with the El Argar culture of the Early Bronze Age that controlled an area about the size of Belgium from 2200 B.C. to 1500 B.C.
Judging by the 29 high-value objects in the tomb, described Thursday in the journal Antiquity, the couple appear to have been members of the Argaric upper class. And the woman may have been the more important of the two, raising questions for archaeologists about who wielded power among the Argarics, and adding more evidence to a debate about the role of women in prehistoric Europe...
On and around her were sublime silver emblems of wealth and power. Her hair had been fastened with silver spirals, and her silver earlobe plugs — one larger than the other — had silver spirals looped through them. A silver bracelet was near her elbow, and a silver ring was still on her finger. Silver embellished the diamond-shaped ceramic pot near her, and triple plates of silver embellished her oak-wood awl — a symbol of womanhood.
Her most fantastic silver artifact is an impeccably crafted diadem — a headband-like crown — that still rested on her head. Only six have been discovered in Argaric graves...
The journal, Antiquity, provides a more detailed academic discussion of the discovery.
Here is that link.
Here is an illustration of the finds as shown in the Antiquity article.
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You can learn a lot from articles like this. Take a look at the top photo. That is a common look for old buried silver. And look at the variety of finds. Learn to recognize them. Study how they are made and how they react to time in the ground.
Become familiar with the variety of types of items, Read the description of the awl in the second reference. Awls have also been found on the Treasure Coast. Would you recognize one? Stories like this one provides a lot of useful information for any detectorist.
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Some 2,000 coins dated to the 11th century, a period when the Fatimid Islamic dynasty dominated the Middle East, have so far been raised from the depths.
The treasure, which was probably exposed during recent winter storms, is thought to have sunk in a shipwreck near the ancient Roman port of Caesarea in the eastern Mediterranean.
“(This is) a great treasure from a (vessel) that was probably taking the hoard, possibly tax revenue, to Cairo but sank in Caesarea harbor,” Jacob Sharvit of the Israel Antiquities Authority told Reuters during a visit to the site.
Sharvit said amateur divers chanced two weeks ago upon a number of coins. At first they thought they were a children’s toy, but a subsequent underwater search by experts netted about 1,000 coins, he said..
Here is the link for more about that.
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I think it was JamminJack that sent me an email about that find.
The phrase "knowledge is power" is often attributed to Francis Bacon, from his Meditationes Sacrae (1597).1
Thomas Jefferson used the phrase in his correspondence on at least four occasions, each time in connection with the establishment of a state university in Virginia
In an 1817 letter to George Ticknor, Jefferson equated knowledge with power, safety, and happiness:[T]his last establishment [a state university] will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. my hopes however are kept in check by the ordinary character of our state legislatures, the members of which do not generally possess information enough to percieve the important truths, that knolege is power, that knolege is safety, and that knolege is happiness.
(Source: Knowledge is power (Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello)
I've always been curious about a lot of things. I'm almost never bored. I don't know where I got that trait. I think I remember my dad saying knowledge is power, but I'm not positive about that.
If you store away that potential, it can be turned into power when the time is right.
I'm not so sure that knowledge is power, but it sure makes things more interesting, and it can turn into power if and when you use it. Unused, it might be potential, but I'm not so sure about power.
I'm not so sure that knowledge is power, but it sure makes things more interesting, and it can turn into power if and when you use it. Unused, it might be potential, but I'm not so sure about power.
You might think of wisdom as knowing how to use knowledge. First you store knowledge, which is made easier if you realize it might be potentially useful. Then you recognize the applicability - how it relates to a particular situation. Then you apply it to the situation by taking action. That is when, in my opinion, it becomes power.
Memorizing facts isn't much good unless you know how to apply your knowledge. You can have a lot of knowledge without having wisdom.
You might not know when some information might be useful, but if you find it interesting, you'll tend to store it up for the future use. Being curious is a big help.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
It looks like the surf will be decreasing, and the wind will be shifting. It will be more southerly, meaning more building beaches.
Happy hunting,
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