Biblical Archaeology 2023-2026

[Treebeard]

I don't know what he's acting so surprised about. There were Christians in the Roman Empire and even in Wales and Britannia in the first century. Caratacus, Saint Cyllin, and the Arimathean "legends", plus, of course Saint James the Great in Iberia, Mary Magdalene and others in Marseille. I mean, by the early years of the second century, St. Irenaeus was Bishop of Lyon, and we have mostly all his writings. He didn't even become bishop there until after St. Pothinus died, who was the first. Lyon being a few hundred kilos up the road from Marseilles, their path taken.

[ELIAKIM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia

I don't know what he's acting so surprised about. There were Christians in the Roman Empire and even in Wales and Britannia in the first century. Caratacus, Saint Cyllin, and the Arimathean "legends", plus, of course Saint James the Great in Iberia, Mary Magdalene and others in Marseille. I mean, by the early years of the second century, St. Irenaeus was Bishop of Lyon, and we have mostly all his writings. He didn't even become bishop there until after St. Pothinus died, who was the first. Lyon being a few hundred kilos up the road from Marseilles, their path taken.

[Oldcynic]

Yet another perspective:

[SlowLoris]

A PDF of the book can be found at:

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7141836M...al_deluges

[ELIAKIM]

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-834956

[Danfromthehills]

A PDF of the book can be found at:

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7141836M...al_deluges

tyvm!

[SlowLoris]

A point that I have wondered about for decades.

When archeologists go to a site, why do they have to dig down dozens of feet to uncover artifacts? And then quite often when they are done with that, they dig down a dozen feet more and find another earlier civilization that existed in the same spot, just centuries before.

Where did the dirt come from?

[Danfromthehills]

A point that I have wondered about for decades.

When archeologists go to a site, why do they have to dig down dozens of feet to uncover artifacts? And then quite often when they are done with that, they dig down a dozen feet more and find another earlier civilization that existed in the same spot, just centuries before.

Where did the dirt come from?

Overburden accumulates at the rate of one foot per century. Twelve feet is 1,200 years.

[Treebeard]

A point that I have wondered about for decades.

When archeologists go to a site, why do they have to dig down dozens of feet to uncover artifacts? And then quite often when they are done with that, they dig down a dozen feet more and find another earlier civilization that existed in the same spot, just centuries before.

Where did the dirt come from?

The rate and composition of the substances depends on many factors. More vegetation, more dead matter decomposing and leveling higher. Less vegetation, potentially slower accumulation, however perhaps not, because other geological, atmospheric, and catastrophic events happen. Rain, erosion, wind, dust storms, earthquakes, floods, volcanic activity, animals and their impacts, and populations of humans, always changing the ground in different ways.

[SlowLoris]

A point that I have wondered about for decades.

When archeologists go to a site, why do they have to dig down dozens of feet to uncover artifacts? And then quite often when they are done with that, they dig down a dozen feet more and find another earlier civilization that existed in the same spot, just centuries before.

Where did the dirt come from?

The rate and composition of the substances depends on many factors. More vegetation, more dead matter decomposing and leveling higher. Less vegetation, potentially slower accumulation, however perhaps not, because other geological, atmospheric, and catastrophic events happen. Rain, erosion, wind, dust storms, earthquakes, floods, volcanic activity, animals and their impacts, and populations of humans, always changing the ground in different ways.

I don't buy that. Stone walls of houses, covered over with 5 feet of dirt. On top of the dirt, other stone walls and more dirt. So much dirt that a farmer plants a crop of wheat on it. Then erosion happens and a clay pot shard is dug up with a plow and ta-da an archeological site is in the news.

It's like the cosmos is dumping dirt on the planet.