Hey, kid, it's secret history

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I meant to post this days ago, and forgot: "On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners."

Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say. Previous artifact discoveries had shown people reaching Cyprus, a few other Greek islands and possibly Sardinia no earlier than 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

I dreamed last night about centaurs, reporters, blackmail, and murder. It was like Dexter meets the south metopes of the Parthenon.

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[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Crete has been an island for more than five million years

when the Mediterranean Basin flooded, a lot of the locals made it to high ground, which ended up being islands...

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when the Mediterranean Basin flooded, a lot of the locals made it to high ground, which ended up being islands...

I think that only works in deluge myths . . .

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

The Mediterranean Was A Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger by Dr Kenneth J. Hsu, c.1987
but that was 5.5 million years ago...

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but that was 5.5 million years ago...

Right. I don't think there were a lot of locals around.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

It was like Dexter meets the south metopes of the Parthenon.

Why is that not playing on television right now?

The thought of crossing the sea with technology available at the very beginning of early humanity... That kind of leaves me in awe.



... On a tangential-at-best note, my brother skaorn clued me into the fact that I have no maritime culture among the Provinces, and given that oak is the preferred boat building wood that grows in temperate zones, I think I have to do something with them, since mine-slavery is not nearly as cool as sailing.

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Why is that not playing on television right now?

There's Caprica?

(Look, I wish.)

The thought of crossing the sea with technology available at the very beginning of early humanity... That kind of leaves me in awe.

Yes. And reminds me of stick charts, which I love.

I have no maritime culture among the Provinces, and given that oak is the preferred boat building wood that grows in temperate zones, I think I have to do something with them

I fully support this idea. Also, Seahenge.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That's almost too much goodness for one comment.

*reads*

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

Is The Owl Service a band, or is that the track by Pram?

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Is The Owl Service a band, or is that the track by Pram?

Band; they seem to take much of their repertoire from the Watersons, Martin Carthy, Peter Bellamy and their sound from Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. Frustratingly, most of their releases have been limited-edition EPs, which means that I can't get my hands on such promising-sounding songs as "Saturnalia Song" and "The Bear Ghost," not to mention their covers of "Fine Horseman" (aside from MySpace) and "Searching for Rowan." I don't know from Pram.

There's "The Owl Service" (a name that seems inspired by the Harry Potter books)

*headdesk*

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My head went right through the desk, karate style!

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Centaurs would fit right into noir.

Do you read Ursula Vernon's LJ? She also seems to be tuned to a mythic dream channel...

...even I know better than to get involved with a rabbit. (http://ursulav.livejournal.com/958856.html)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Interesting piece, that--I don't always get to see the science section, but I was glad I saw it that week.

The dream sounds fascinating--were any of the centaurs reporters? (Or should that be "were any of the reporters centaurs"?)