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I'll toss a starting topic then.
Who's your favorite military leader from your country?
For me, it would be Jan Žižka. Rather interesting figure. Born to an impoverished noble, raised in royal court, lost an eye in his youth, became a highwayman, got pardoned, became a mercenary, fought at Grunwald for Polish and maybe at Agincourt for English, became prominent military leader of Hussite uprising and devised tactics that enabled them, in times when knightly cavalry was the decisive weapon on battlefield, to defeat several crusades led by German knights without heavy cavalry of their own. Supposedly he never lost a battle (although, given the fragmentary information about his life from pre-Hussite times, that can be disputed), and died from a boil, probably from an infected wound.
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Who's your favorite military leader from your country? .
US Grant. However, Washington, Marshall, Meigs, and Mahan were all equally outstanding leaders.
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Well well well...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...structure.html
Interesting window into earliest prehistoric carpentry.
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The press coverage is a bit misleading. Being the earliest extant structure doesn’t necessarily make it the earliest carpentry or even the earliest structure of its kind. The issue may be mostly one of preservation. According to dendrochronology, the wood in this structure dates to 5256/55 BCE. The carved wooden Shigir Idol dates to about 9500 BCE. The Pesse canoe was constructed sometime between 8040 BCE and 7510 BCE. Both would have long since decomposed if they hadn't ended up in peat bogs.
The dating of this well coincides with the arrival of Neolithic people in the area. There have been two wooden wells found in Hungary (Tiszakürt and Sajószentpéter) which may be older (5600–5400 and 5400–5200 BCE respectively), but the dating methodology is less precise. Wells constructed of stone that date back to at least 6500 BCE have been found in northern modern Israel, one at the same site as one of the earliest megalith structures which spread across Europe with Neolithic people. Using stone in the Levant makes sense, but I imagine somewhere along the way Neolithic people probably also created wells of wood before arriving in central Europe.
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The article doesn't go much into detail about highlights of this find, you'd need to read original Czech articles. The precision and grooving used to fit the planks together is surprising and unique for the period and culture, given the fact that oak is one of hardest woods in the area and it was achieved using only stone tools.
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The article doesn't go much into detail about highlights of this find, you'd need to read original Czech articles. The precision and grooving used to fit the planks together is surprising and unique for the period and culture, given the fact that oak is one of hardest woods in the area and it was achieved using only stone tools.
Yeah, the construction is really interesting. I have access to the journal publication:
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Until recently this construction design with grooved corner posts and inserted planks was only known from the Bronze Age, Roman times and the Middle Ages (Gollnisch-Moos, 1999; Rageth, 1986; Tegel et al., 2012). The existence of this type of construction in the Early Neolithic Period, i.e., a few thousand years earlier, was confirmed by the dendrochronological dating of the well from Uničov, Czech Republic (5093–5085 BC) (Rybníček et al., 2018). The dendrochronological dating of the Ostrov well even further confirms the existence of this design at least 150 years earlier...
The ends of the horizontal planks of the Uničov well were chamfered, whereas this is not the case of the Ostrov well. As mentioned above, the tool marks at the plank ends are likely tool marks caused by shortening the planks to the required length. This also corresponds to the slightly wider grooves in the corner posts of the Ostrov well compared to the width of the grooves in the Uničov well. The chamfering of the plank ends from the Uničov well was necessary because thicker planks (up to 9 cm) were used than in the Ostrov well, where the thickest planks reached 5.5 cm in width.
Images of individuals pieces:
Some other LBK wells:
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