Iron Age

Because he asked a virgin, smile on thy infant boy.

whom the Iron Age will pass away.

When Christ appeared, he said, I am the one whom the prophets foretold.

In other words, I'm not just coming here on the stage of history.

That's before we even mentioned the huge chunks of temperate Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa beyond the shoreline under the rule of the emperors.

The myriad lands controlled by the Roman Empire and the potential to connect them with increasingly well-traveled routes opened up opportunities for movement and trade that people living in the preceding Iron Age could never have imagined.

Entire books have been written on the scale and types of movement and trade, but suffice it to say that it was constant and extensive.

Millstones quarried near Pompeii in southern Italy ended up in mills in Gaul.

Or sorry, what these data indicate are that temperature, the sea surface temperature, in this case, taken from the Makassar Strait between the islands of Kalimantan or Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

These, the sea surface temperature has fluctuated over the past two thousand years, where we have warm periods and cold periods also similar to the temperature, to the world temperature, where we have warm periods in the Iron Age and then cold period in the Dark Age, warm period again in the High Middle Ages during the Medieval Warm Period, and then the cold period again in a little ice age similar to the temperature.

And then we have our current warm period where we see a warming of the sea surface temperature, which again, is a recovery from the little ice age.

And the fact that we had warm and cold periods happening while the CO2 concentration remains constant at about three hundred and eighty parts per million prior to the Industrial Revolution also is an indication that CO2 is not the only factor that affects sea surface temperature.

in Norway.

And, uh, has to sort of assimilate into these tribes and convince them that this thing exists and somehow find a way to defeat it using Iron Age tech.

And he gets-

Yeah.

The next day, archaeologist Esko Tikka of Lahti Museums recovered both deposits.

Officials date the coins and ornaments to about 1000 to 1050 AD, at the close of the Viking Age in Finland's Late Iron Age.

Viking Age silver coins from the Sysmä hoard after recovery.

Esko Tikka, Lahti Museot.

For now, Lappinen's two holes have rewritten the scale of Viking wealth in Finland.

Sysmä, an inland town in Päijät-Häme, is landlocked and not previously associated with any significant long-distance trading hubs.

The region has a rich Iron Age background as evidenced by the noted Suontaka burial site dating back to the 11th century.

The early years of 11th century Finland were characterized by Danish and Swedish incursions, transition of trading routes, and a markedly slow adoption of Christianity.

I think, like, if you think about that in evolutionary terms, right? If all of the...

If you were there isolated and all the rest of your Iron Age tribe, like let's say 50 people, are all looking at you, right, expectantly, and if you're, like, you know, that...

It, it, it's almost like confronting a wild animal.

Like, in the same way that a tiger could tear you apart, a group of 50 people could, in principle, if they felt so inclined-

The trees seem to huddle together, whispering secrets about the old kings and battles fought on that soil.

There's an Iron Age hill fort up on Castle Ring, and some say the man monkey is the guardian of the ring, an ancient spirit bound to the earth to keep modern feet off sacred ground.

Others, the more scientific types, think there might be a more grounded explanation.

Escaped exotic pets from the Victorian era that managed to breed.

Then 10 a.m. about How It Works.

So Reading Radio's Adrienne McDarrah talks about What If All Insects Disappeared? Would Life Was Ignored End? how Iron Age tribes made Britain, how a drone swarm was controlled and complex animals evolved up to 10 million years

earlier than thought.

So there you go.