Greek archaeologists unearth jewelry in cemetery

(AP) -- New excavations at an ancient cemetery in northern Greece have yielded gold jewelry, copper and iron weapons and pottery.

Archaeologists digging in part of a vast burial ground near Pella, the ancient Macedonians' capital, have unearthed 43 new graves dating from 650-279 B.C., the Greek Culture Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.

The dead included 20 warriors who had been buried in the Archaic period, between 580-480 B.C., with copper helmets and iron swords, daggers and spearheads. Ornaments of gold foil - specially made for funerals - covered their mouths, eyes and chests, the statement said.

A total of 915 graves have been excavated over the past eight years at the site of Arhontiko, about 330 miles northwest of Athens. Archaeologists estimate this represents just five percent of the cemetery.

"The settlement (to which the cemetery belonged) flourished in wealth and population mainly during the Archaic period," the ministry statement said. "The funerary use of (gold) and the other grave goods points to a strong belief in life after death, and rebirth."

Artifacts from previous digs include gold masks, crowns and diadems, as well as quantities of local and imported pottery.

Arhontiko was first settled around 6000 B.C. and abandoned in the 14th century A.D.

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Proof for numerous Martian microbes/cells.

Some people still harbor doubts about my earlier claim that there
were
numerous microbes/cells on Mars.
So, I present Fig. 1 below, showing numerous non-fluorescent Martian
microbes, six of which is marked with circles. Most of these microbes
measure 8 to 10 micrometers in diameter. They are of Mars origin
because (1) they sit on reddish Mars soil and (2) they are too
numerous to be of Earthly origin. Cells do not have to fluoresce to
show they were cells. They were microbes/cells because the white dots
are ringed with rounded, black, oval/circular edges different from the
immediate surroundings. See
Fig. 1: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555300422&p=93

The objects circled in Fig. 1 were not voids, minerals, or
spores for the following reasons:
1.Voids: If they were voids, they would not have uniformly shown
rounded edges. None of them show un-rounded...

Thanks, m3d.
Perhaps one of the many prejudices in PA?
About 50 years ago, A.Schultz (eg, in "Life of Primates" fig.59 p.154, but
also in other publications) already showed that feto-pelvic proportions in
Hs are the same as in Macaca (IOW, we don't pay higher prices in birthing
than macaques), whereas apes (esp.the great apes) have a much larger pelvic
inlet rel.to the newborn's head. IMO this may be due to iliac lengthening
in the apes after they split from our ancestral line &/or to brain size
reduction after they split from us.