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Brown, in particular, suspected the canines were probably sacrificed there as part of a ritual and decided to examine the research literature broadly on the subject of rituals involving dogs. No one would have made these cuts to simply get meat off the bones.Īnthony and his wife, archaeologist Dorcas Brown, knew it was a unique discovery. Snouts were divided into three pieces and the remainder of the skulls were broken down into geometrically shaped fragments only an inch long. To add to the mystery, the bones were cut in unusual, systematic ways that did not resemble ordinary butchering practices. “But they are so old that these were dogs that had been around for a while and had some kind of relationship to these people.” “Were they treasured pets, hunting dogs, or pariahs? We don’t know,” she says. She and her team found that most of the dogs were unusually long-lived, up to 12 years old in some cases, which meant they were probably not raised for food. “I don’t know of any other site in the world with such a high percentage of dog bones,” says Russell. At Krasnosamarskoe, they made up more than 30 percent. At other Timber Grave sites, dog and wolf bones never make up more than 3 percent of the total animal bones found. But I had no idea how important they would turn out to be.” When the team got to work analyzing all the animal bones in the lab, they identified the remains of about 51 dogs and seven wolves, as well as six canines that could not be classified as either. Nerissa Russell, the project’s archaeozoologist, says, “I remember saying early on in the dig that we were finding a lot of dog bones. They found that the site held the remains of dozens of butchered dogs and wolves-vastly more than at any comparable site. But he and his team have since discovered that Krasnosamarskoe has a much different story to tell. Anthony hoped that by excavating the site he might learn why people in this region first began to establish permanent households. One of them is called Krasnosamarskoe, and Hartwick College archaeologist David Anthony had big expectations for it when he started digging there in the late 1990s. Known today as the Timber Grave Culture, these people left behind more than 1,000 sites. Nevermind the mythological (but not historical) silver age.Around 4,000 years ago, on the steppes north of the Black Sea, a nomadic people began settling down in small communities. And since Bronze is generally pretty old (other than everything but the stone age), and also "less than" gold (by the Olympic medal system), Bronze age sorta fit. But people realized that although it was the high point, it wasn't the beginning. The term "Golden age" is generally understood to be the peak of a thing, so the early 80s (roughly speaking) became known as the golden age first. And that the historical (vice mythological) Bronze Age was a fricking long time ago before the iron age but after the stone age. Video arcade game people (myself included, I had to google the comic book stuff) aren't as hip to Greek mythology crap, but some of us understand the Olympic medal system. I think that comic book people are more intellectually nerdy than video arcade game people, so they named their periods after Greek mythology, e.g. So many great early video games are slept on entirely. I realize most people just aren't into the Bronze Era at all, and I disagree with all of you that feel this way. Mother Fuckkin' wood grain on everything looks most like Bronze! I hereby offer up another explanation that I prefer, though probably isn't true.
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I assumed it was dubbed the Bronze era since that more or less falls in the same time frame as the Comic Book Bronze Era.
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Platinum -> Gold -> Silver -> Bronze -> then it gets murky, some say Modern at this point, others further delineate to Copper or any number of era titles. We all know the bit about Walter Day calling 1978-1982 the Golden Era of arcade games when being interviewed by Time Magazine, which lends itself to be compared to the comic book industry, which has a pretty agreed upon set of eras. Some prefer to look only at console generations. So first off, I realize that none of this really means anything since it's just a label and lots of people have different opinions about the timeline of video games. He's also spectacularly unfunny and probably just making shit up Also, IG is pretty much the only source that I've encountered that calls it the Silver Age. I find outside of arcade groups, there is little to no knowledge of the pre-Space Invaders era being known as the Bronze Age.
BRONZE AGE MYTHOLOGY SERIES
I've thought about this ever since I saw Irate Gamer's video series on what he calls the Silver Age of gaming.