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POPSThe Rollright Stones The Rollright Stones is the name of a complex of megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton in England. It consists of three separate sites: 1. The King's Men, approximately 70 closely-spaced stones that form a stone circle 33 metres in diameter. They are set on top of a circular bank with an entrance marked by two portal stones. The site is unexcavated and can only be loosely dated to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. 2. The King Stone, a single, weathered monolith, 2.4 metres high by 1.5 metres wide, standing 76 metres east of the King's Men. The King Stone is more likely to have been a marker stone serving a now-destroyed cairn burial site. 3. The Whispering Knights, the remains of the burial chamber of an early or middle Neolithic portal dolmen lying 400 metres east of the King's Men. Four standing stones survive, forming a chamber about 2 square metres in area around a fifth recumbent stone, probably the collapsed roof.
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POPSGrapevine genome bursting with flavour They need to get more genetic information, on things like flavor, and aroma. So far there has been manipulation that has improved shelf life, and appearance, but these qualities, can be for the retailer's benefit, without actually improving the quality of the fruit. For example tomatoes, and apples, that look pretty, and last for weeks, but are floury, and lower in vitamins.
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POPSPrehistoric Greek Water Works Found "The 6-acre site was girdled with a wall of huge stone blocks, built around 1250 B.C. Excavations have also uncovered several buildings - some decorated with painted plaster walls - pottery, a clay figure of a goddess, seal-stones and an amethyst vase shaped like a triton shell. Controlling a strategic road in the northeastern Peloponnese, Midea was first occupied in the later Neolithic period, in the 5th millennium B.C. It flourished during Mycenaean times and was destroyed by earthquake and fire at the end of the 13th century B.C. - after which the site diminished in size and significance. Traces of habitation have also been located from the Archaic (7th and 6th centuries B.C.), Roman and Byzantine periods."
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POPS5,000 year old embrace. 3 page article. Speculations on why they were buried this way were discussed. Hopefully their research will bring about numerous conclusions.
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