This really doesn't seem like a question for a historian. You can keep, it sell it, really anything you want.

Seconding that it looks stamped!

Clearly some influence from US Manifest Destiny in the mix, too

Hopefully it will be answered this time.

Why did Lee not come to the defense of Longstreet after the Civil War, or did he simply allow Longstreet to take the blame for his own tactical mistakes? Especially when it came to Gettysburg.

What the hell happened here

That’s amazing thank you

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Material culture can also help track societal shifts- who is trading with who and when. Do they have a cultural link to one group or another. Were they doing great economically or in a crisis. What was their technology like. What did they value. Etc...

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Making circles isn’t hard. In fact, circles are the easiest shape to make! Compasses (the drawing tool, not the navigation one) were common at least as far back as Ancient Rome, for example. Also, those circular patterns look stamped or pressed to me, and there are two distinct sizes of them. So they probably made the circular patterns on a wooden piece and then stamped it onto the gold, which is very malleable.

Using a lathe for this would be wildly overkill.

Bless the farmers who call a museum instead of trying to melt it down.

We do this now.

• Trepanation (drilling or scraping a hole in the skull) to release the demons out. (Seriously, but sometimes worked because of cranial pressure from severe head trauma, they just didn't know that)
• Lobotomy, severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal lobe with an implement resembling an icepick, done up till the 1970's
• Bloodletting ie draining your blood to restore the balance of humors. Just tap an artery and let some blood out till your better.
• Malaria therapy. You got syphilis? We'll give you malaria, cause the fever is so hot and prolonged, it will kill the syphilis.
• Cough syrup used to be made from morphine
• Mercury drops was a common medical tonic.
• Heroin was also a cough syrup as well.
• Leeches anyone? Common up till the 1800's, people used leeches, usually in reference to bloodletting.

Wow, my old forensic anthropology professor gets posted here a lot. Huh.

I'm aware but the joke was there and nobody had said it yet. I was obligated too crack it

This is a common misconception. Ancient artefacts were almost never buried in solid gold.

Probably Tumulus/Urnfield, they made some pretty groovy stuff with solar motifs back then.

Looking very closely at it, what impresses me the most is the precision of the concentric circles. It looks like they must have used a tool that was spun on a lathe it’s so precise.

Is there any evidence of none Sapien hominid culture and religion?

So here's what it means to me as someone not in the field, never took a hobby-like interest, or tbh i don't even know that much of history:

Depending on what exactly is depicted on the belt, would tell you that people in bronze age, potentially, gave significance to same commit items that we do nowadays.

Imagine there was someone 14k years ago who saw the same star constilation and thought it was of significance? That would be pretty cool

Neat. Did the Bell Beaker culture make this?

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PFAS and neonicotinoids

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