Category: Symbols
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Engraved symbols. Long gone. Deep into our heart…
Engraved stone artifacts are important clues to the history of human culture and cognition. Incisions on the cortex (soft outer layer) of flint or chert flakes are known from Middle and Lower Paleolithic sites across Europe and the Middle East. However, it can be difficult to determine the action that created an incision: was it…
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Viking warriors… Women warriors…
Viking warriors have a historical reputation as tough guys, with an emphasis on testosterone. But scientists about a year ago said that DNA had unveiled a Viking warrior woman who was previously found in a roughly 1,000-year-old grave in Sweden. Until then, many researchers assumed that “she” was a “he” buried with a set of…
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Hitler & Swastika: The murder of a symbol…
Hitler did not only murder people. He also murdered a symbol. Swastika was for thousands of years a symbol of the movement of the cosmos, a symbol of good luck. Now no one can use it anymore. Now the world has stopped turning. Dark deeds have dark consequences... Can someone be brave enough? The world…
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