Irishman leaves a thoughtful kind comment about appreciating Sardinian history.

Someone thinks he's British and leaves an insane angry reply seething at the very idea that a British person exists.

Golden sun disc found in 1947 in a burial mound at Monkton Farleigh, about 20 miles from Stonehenge.

Dated to the Bell Beaker period, c. 2400 BC - soon after the sarsen stones were erected at Stonehenge - it and the central "solar cross" motif probably represent the sun.

These golden sun crosses were probably sewn onto clothing or burial shrouds somewhere on the upper body or face (you can see the holes where they were sewn on in most of the examples).

Mostly from Western Europe, these Bell Beaker culture artefacts might have been related to concepts related to death and rebirth.

Luckily, someone made a video about this sort of thing.

New study shows hunter-gatherer metal workers in prehistoric Anatolia doing copper working 9,000 years ago.

"Excavations at Gre Filla in Diyarbakir, uncovered architectural structures, copper artifacts, and vitrified materials that point to early pyrometallurgical activities.

Until now, the earliest known evidence of smelting dated to approximately 5,000 B.C. at Yumuktepe in Anatolia [and in the Balkans too actually, maybe even earlier] However, Gre Filla’s findings—dated to around 8,000 B.C.—could shift this paradigm dramatically."

Article here: https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-anatolias-last-hunter-gatherers-pioneered-copper-metallurgy-9000-years-ago-133075/

Paper (paywalled): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25000835

The Pitted Ware culture (c. 3500 BC - 2300 BC) of Southern Scandinavia relied heavily on seals as a resource.

These animals provided skins, meat, blood, and perhaps most precious of all, blubber.

Their characteristic pottery reveals they consumed this precious fat. Baltic hunter gatherers seem to have stored seal fat, mixed with cranberry or lingonberry which contain chemicals that would have helped stop the meat/fat from spoiling. They also seem to have made a kind of blood porridge or blood cake, with blood mixed with wild grains.

Artwork: "Stone Age Seal Hunters" by Måns Sjöberg

If you look up stuff like "ancestral diet" and "what did ancient humans eat?" and stuff like that you will find videos from both "carnivore diet" advocates and "vegan / plant based diet" advocates asserting that pre-agricultural people were entirely carnivorous or ate mostly plants.

I watched this one on a carnivore channel cos it had a mesolithic European on the thumbnail. But I had to drop a comment because unfortunately it was saying stuff that was just wrong, implying we're more carnivorous than lions and all plants are toxic.

People will use this appeal to nature and/or tradition stuff to support their dietary beliefs but they don't need to. You're not eating like a mesolithic man anyway if you're eating 15 beef steaks a week and 1000 chicken eggs a year.

Personally, I only eat mammoth, woolly rhino, and Victoria sponge cake.