An example is his morning walk with his dog, which takes him in front of rock engravings next to the Stirling golf course, made by a Neolithic farmer, made of quartz-dolerite, a metamorphic rock created about three hundred million years ago. and explains that it would have taken farmers days to burn marks of rings and cuts.
“The rise and fall of Egypt, Rome, the trade revolution, the two global wars, all those moments in history happened after those engravings were made. I walk them and touch them and put them in context,” he says.
The rock is still aging on the edge of the country. The e-book begins in Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Here you will find some of the oldest rocks on the planet. “Having the opportunity to come into contact with something over 3 billion years old is profound,” he says. “You don’t have to go to Monpasslia or the African savannah to witness the wonderful age of the earth. “
The metamorphic rock of Lewis’ gneis here bubbled near Antarctica about 3 billion years ago and, as Oliver explains, “with the speed at which nails grow, it has moved north. “Older than the oceans, some of them moved to Greenland while others moved to the west coast of Scotland. Tens of millions of years ago, he joined the land mass of England and Wales, more or less joining Hadrian’s Wall.
Callanish is also part of a remarkable circle of Bronze Age status stones, created from Lewis gneis through farmers and older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
In fact, Stonehenge and Avebury may well have been encouraged through Neolithic Orkney in the northeast of the Hebrides. About 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, farmers began lifting stones on the island. They got involved in the seasons and the position, of the sun and this is demonstrated in their constructions, like Brodgar’s ring. “The fact that he’s in Britain is deeply fascinating,” Oliver says.
What is even deeper is that other people have built stone circles all over the world for centuries. Even today, we are still fascinated with them, thousands of years later: “There will have to be something vital about it,” he says.
Although restrictions mean that the African continent is banned lately for most of us, Oliver says that “it is bigger than anything to get carried away by the mind and don’t forget that those options are still there, and they will be much later. we left. “
One such site is in northern Tanzania, where Laetoli’s footprints were discovered through Mary Leakey in 1976, who together with her husband Louis helped awaken the age feeling of our species, interpreted the footprints, 3. 6 million years old. , belonged to two adults and one child. One of them had moved, perhaps to higher ground, suggesting that he felt danger. “The prints meet again. In this, you see an adult father having a moment of doubt,” explains Oliver The unexpected thing is that they belonged to hominins, prior to homo erectus of approximately 1. 5 million years.
About 50 km away is the Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley, a vital archaeological site where you can still see rocks that were placed in a giant circle about two million years ago. This proto-refuge is the territory of homo erectus. Mary Leakey warned that it is the contours of other people who leave while hunting.
These ancestors of humanity returned to their refuge for percentage of food, the founding moment of the evolution of the species. Oliver draws a parallel to the lockdown, when a designated user has been able to leave the space to move to a supermarket in search of supplies: “There is a direct line between those behaviors. We are connected to other versions of humanity. “
Lockdown also shows that we’re afraid of dying, as Oliver says, “We have professionals who don’t know they’re taking the frame away from us in an antiseptic way. “Some stories in the e-book about sacrifice and loss, for example, Vedbaek, in fashionable Denmark. In this Mesolithic cemetery are the remains of a mother and a baby who lived about seven thousand years ago in incredibly difficult circumstances, without any of the current technologies and tools.
Mom’s mendacity with gifts, a pillow or a folded garment, a necklace with teeth of three hundred red deer, a dress adorned with shells and teeth, either would have required a wonderful effort. flint leaf in the stomach, probably associating migratory birds with the return of a spirit. It is a sublime and complicated reaction to the loss of those other people, with spare clothes, equipment and souvenirs. “You place human emotion on earth, not just bones. Expressions of pain, loss and love are incredibly significant. We are terrified of the inevitability of death to the point of not chasing it. These other people had accepted it.
These parts of the world capture the mind’s attention in times of uncertainty, yet it is the British Isles that resonate most deeply for Neil Oliver. He came here to see the decentralized nations as one place: “When you stay on the coast, I don’t know that you’ve crossed from Scotland to England, or from England to Wales. The lines are the fruit of the eye of our minds. I’ve filled my love for the landscape of the British Isles. We’re all on a lifeboat. “
As our freedom and ability to move are questioned, there is a convenience in the power of permanence of the earth beneath our feet, the basis of our human emotions.
Could Neil Oliver include fortune teller in his list of completed grades? The archaeologist, historian, broadcaster and journalist admits that only after receiving paper copies of his new book, Wisdom of the Ancients, did he learn that he had perhaps only made predictions about Covid. -19.
It would be fair to say that 2020 was not the beginning of a new decade that most of us expected, the virus has sent waves of anxiety around the world, underlining the grim realities of the climate crisis and political uncertainty. it was finished before the virus made headlines, provides timely peace of action by examining the intelligence and perception of our ancestors and our connection to them.
An example is his morning walk with his dog, which takes him in front of rock engravings next to the Stirling golf course, made through a Neolithic farmer, made of quartz-dolerit, a metamorphic rock created about three hundred million years ago. and explains that it would have taken farmers days to burn marks of rings and cuts.
“The rise and fall of Egypt, Rome, the trade revolution, the two global wars, all those moments in history happened after those engravings were made. I walk them and touch them and put them in context,” he says.
The rock is still aging on the edge of the country. The e-book begins in Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Here you will find some of the oldest rocks on the planet. “Having the opportunity to come into contact with something over 3 billion years old is profound,” he says. “You don’t have to go to Monpasslia or the African savannah to witness the wonderful age of the earth. “
The metamorphic rock of Lewis’s gneiss here bubbled up near Antarctica about 3 billion years ago and, as Oliver explains, “with the speed at which fingernails grow, it has moved north. ” Older than the oceans, some of them moved to Greenland while others moved to the west coast of Scotland. Tens of millions of years ago, it joined the landmass of England and Wales, more or less joining Hadrian’s Wall.
Callanish is also part of a remarkable circle of Bronze Age status stones, created from Lewis gneis through farmers and older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
In fact, Stonehenge and Avebury may well have been encouraged through Neolithic Orkney in the northeast of the Hebrides. About 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, farmers began lifting stones on the island. They got involved in the seasons and the position, of the sun and this is demonstrated in their constructions, like Brodgar’s ring. “The fact that he’s in Britain is deeply fascinating,” Oliver says.
What’s even deeper is that other people have been building stone circles around the world for centuries. Even today, we are still fascinated with them, thousands of years later: “There will have to be something big about it,” he says.
Although restrictions mean that the African continent is banned lately for most of us, Oliver says that “it’s bigger than anything to get carried away with and don’t forget that those options are still there, and they will be much later. we left. “
One such site is in northern Tanzania, where Laetoli’s footprints were discovered through Mary Leakey in 1976, who together with her husband Louis helped awaken the age feeling of our species, interpreted the footprints, 3. 6 million years old. , belonged to two adults and one child. One of them had moved, perhaps to high ground, suggesting that he felt danger. “The prints meet again. In this, you see that an adult father has a moment of doubt”, Oliver The unexpected thing is that they belonged to hominids, prior to homo erectus of approximately 1. 5 million years.
About 50 km away is the Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley, a vital archaeological site where you can still see rocks that were placed in a giant circle about two million years ago. This proto-refuge is the territory of homo erectus. Mary Leakey warned that it is the contours of other people who leave while hunting.
These ancestors of humanity returned to their refuge for percentage of food, the founding moment of the evolution of the species. Oliver draws a parallel with the lockdown, when a designated user has been able to leave the space to move to a supermarket for supplies: “There is a direct line between those behaviors. We are connected to other versions of humanity. “
Lockdown also shows that we’re afraid of dying, as Oliver says, “We have professionals we don’t know to take the frame away from us in an antiseptic way. “Some stories in the e-book about sacrifice and loss, for example, Vedbaek, in fashionable Denmark. In this Mesolithic cemetery are the remains of a mother and a baby who lived about seven thousand years ago in incredibly difficult circumstances, without any of the current technologies and tools.
The mother mendacity with gifts, a pillow or a folded garment, a necklace with teeth of three hundred red deer, a dress adorned with shells and teeth, which would have required a wonderful effort. flint leaf in the stomach, probably associating migratory birds with the return of a spirit. It is a sublime and complicated reaction to the loss of those other people, with spare clothes, equipment and souvenirs. “You place human emotion on earth, not just bones. Expressions of pain, loss and love are incredibly significant. We are terrified of the inevitability of death to the point of not chasing it. These other people had accepted it.
Those portions of the global captivate the mind’s eye in times of uncertainty, yet it is the British Isles that resonate most deeply for Neil Oliver. He came here to see the decentralized nations as one place: “When you stay on the coast, I don’t know that you have crossed from Scotland to England, or from England to Wales. The lines are the fruit of our mind’s eye. I have filled myself with love for the scenery of the British Isles. We are all in a lifeboat. “
As our freedom and ability to move are questioned, there is a convenience in the power of permanence of the earth beneath our feet, the basis of our human emotions.
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