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Aaaarg, spare me!
Sep. 7th, 2008 10:24 am"Secret Passages" on the History International channel is currently doing an episode on a megalithic monument in New Hampshire, and the narrator is all "OOoooOOOoOOooOOo it's quite like many prehistoric megalithic monuments in Europe!" And NO! NO IT'S NOT! THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY'RE MADE OF STONE! At least the narrator mentions a theory that the farmer who "discovered" it actually built it, and there's a couple of archaeologists who explain that the Native Americans of the area didn't work in stone.
I'm suffering an overload of stupid, as I caught an episode of "Bone Detectives" last night, having forgotten that it's the one I watched a few months ago and sporked. This episode was about a 2000-year-old skeleton of a young man found in Orkney, buried near a metalworker's area, with a facial injury that broke his front teeth. And the interpretation is ungodly awful, using so much speculation, that it's insane. Hey! It's a warrior society, even though there's no evidence of war*, and the dentist who looked at the skull has seen teeth broken just like that by bullets, so IT MAY BE that he was killed by a metal-tipped arrow in a training accident, then was brought to the metalworkers by concerned family members because they may have believed smiths to have healing powers, and then buried in the area where he died because he had scoliosis (although it didn't affect his movement, as the muscle attachments were strong), so the family hoped the magical smith power could make him whole and hale in the next world!
...Yeah. I'm going back to The Unthinkable.
* Lots of defensive buildings, but little evidence of large-scale fighting.
I'm suffering an overload of stupid, as I caught an episode of "Bone Detectives" last night, having forgotten that it's the one I watched a few months ago and sporked. This episode was about a 2000-year-old skeleton of a young man found in Orkney, buried near a metalworker's area, with a facial injury that broke his front teeth. And the interpretation is ungodly awful, using so much speculation, that it's insane. Hey! It's a warrior society, even though there's no evidence of war*, and the dentist who looked at the skull has seen teeth broken just like that by bullets, so IT MAY BE that he was killed by a metal-tipped arrow in a training accident, then was brought to the metalworkers by concerned family members because they may have believed smiths to have healing powers, and then buried in the area where he died because he had scoliosis (although it didn't affect his movement, as the muscle attachments were strong), so the family hoped the magical smith power could make him whole and hale in the next world!
...Yeah. I'm going back to The Unthinkable.
* Lots of defensive buildings, but little evidence of large-scale fighting.
