Galician history
Jun. 1st, 2019 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artabria Yesterday I went out for a walk and decided to go to the bookshop. I found an introductory book to Galicia's history, and given that I never find much on this matter, I decided to pick it.
I'm love with the beginning. Basically, it starts with "we would love to tell you more about how prehistoric Galicia worked, but the soil here is extra extra acid and eats bones in less than century so we just have random objects to work with".
And this comes with an story time. When I was little, back in the 90s (although the show lasted a bit into the early 2000s), there was this Galician program with a skeleton called Atilano.
Back in 2017 some archeologists found a skeleton... From the Middle Ages! (From the 10th-12th centuries) It was buried in the ground, but between some stone wall! And this March we learned a bit more about their diet! They think they lead a good life, eating lots of meat and fish, plus a bit of cereal.
Now, what does these two things have to do with each other? Well, while we still don't know if the skeleton belonged to a woman or a man, the archeologists decided to name them Atilano. Because this may be the only chance Galicia gets to name a skeleton. They saw their chance and they took it.
I'm love with the beginning. Basically, it starts with "we would love to tell you more about how prehistoric Galicia worked, but the soil here is extra extra acid and eats bones in less than century so we just have random objects to work with".
And this comes with an story time. When I was little, back in the 90s (although the show lasted a bit into the early 2000s), there was this Galician program with a skeleton called Atilano.
Back in 2017 some archeologists found a skeleton... From the Middle Ages! (From the 10th-12th centuries) It was buried in the ground, but between some stone wall! And this March we learned a bit more about their diet! They think they lead a good life, eating lots of meat and fish, plus a bit of cereal.
Now, what does these two things have to do with each other? Well, while we still don't know if the skeleton belonged to a woman or a man, the archeologists decided to name them Atilano. Because this may be the only chance Galicia gets to name a skeleton. They saw their chance and they took it.
