12-10-2007, 06:02 AM
Thanks for linking that site...I, for one, had not seen it before.
It is worth noting some other points also:
* All the eight barrows were looted in antiquity, and that is why very few metal artefacts were found, and no weapons save one small iron knife in barrow 6, and 2xdozen arrow shafts ( but no bow or arrowheads ) in barrow 2.
* The eight barrows were put in place over a period of aprox 50 years
* The main reason that Rudenko dated the barrows earlier was that whilst there were chinese artefacts in the barrows, there were no Hellenistic ones, so Rudenko concluded that the barrows were probably pre-Alexander.The original carbon dating was only accurate to 200 years or so.
It is worth noting some other points also:
* All the eight barrows were looted in antiquity, and that is why very few metal artefacts were found, and no weapons save one small iron knife in barrow 6, and 2xdozen arrow shafts ( but no bow or arrowheads ) in barrow 2.
* The eight barrows were put in place over a period of aprox 50 years
* The main reason that Rudenko dated the barrows earlier was that whilst there were chinese artefacts in the barrows, there were no Hellenistic ones, so Rudenko concluded that the barrows were probably pre-Alexander.The original carbon dating was only accurate to 200 years or so.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
