If I had a penny for every birthday I would have 24 pennies.

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:13 am

Hi, today is my 24th birthday. And the cool thing is that just when I woke up, someone phoned me and offered an archaeological job for a few weeks!

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:19 am

Dblcngrtz.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:40 am

Happy birthday and congratulations for the new work!

Good luck with it.

immortal_pigs · Post by **immortal_pigs** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:51 am

Gefeliciteerd en succes met je nieuwe baan.

redsrock · Post by **redsrock** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:15 pm

Congrats, Viking.

About the job, somewhere in the Netherlands I presume?

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:55 pm

Gefeliciteerd.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:24 pm

congdarz on the birthday and on the job!

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:24 pm

OMG THAT ARE A LOT OF PENNIES!1!eleventy!

you turn 24 and suddenly you are able to dig up people from 240 AD. nice

congrats on still being older than me and existing in linear space time for just over a local milestone period.

Here's to many more local milestones worth of space time drifting, and chance to dig up dead people.

(I honestly can't tell if this is an asshole post or a silly post. I think I may have drifted into the murky waters where, at the far corners of silly and asshole, the two intersect... sorry if I did and happy birthday)

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:55 pm

Thanks, but I'll hope I eventually may dig up even older graves. (My speciality is from 3000 to 2000 BC) I must say that I really enjoyed American food today as my family went to a nice restaurant. (not McDonalds) The spareribs were huge, hehe.

PCgamerdude · Post by **PCgamerdude** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:06 pm

awesome congratulations!

jarvis · Post by **jarvis** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:26 am

yaaaay

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:29 am

Happy birthday

Have a good one.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:04 am

European settlements from that long ago? or will you be travelling?

(I know all of jack shit about european civilization in the western european area prior to the greeks)

(feel free to talk expertly on the subject of settlements from this time period, I love history)

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:17 pm

There were settlements in Europe from around 10000 BC onwards, (But Europe was inhabited as early as 500000 BC) although these werent permament until around 5000 BC. (6500 BC in Greece) Then, with the introduction of agriculture people could stay at one place. I actually helped in an excavation of one of these settlements from 5000 BC. My speciality, 3000-2000 BC, is a time in which agriculture became more advanced, they began to use the plow and use cows for milk, etc. It is also the time in Europe in which the first metal tools were made from copper.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:22 pm

You excavated a settlement that ancient? That's pretty cool. Where was it exactly?

pacificmorrowind · Post by **pacificmorrowind** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:31 pm

Happy Birthday.
milk animals are the best, Go Goats, Go Cows!
does this mean that you will be on here less, seeing as you got a cool archeological job? I personally prefer the 63-210 million BCE zone, but everyone to their preference.
Pacific Morrowind

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:17 pm

wow- u r old.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:04 am

so, will you be traveling or is this all local.

Also, the settlement from the 5k BC, what was its affiliation. Were you able to discern if it was from one of the barbaric tribes that went on to great and interesting things (vandals, franks, etc.) or was it simply a group of people who got tired of walking everywhere.

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:26 pm

It is all in the Netherlands, that village was a bandceramic-culture village, who brought the agriculture to most parts of Europe. We can't know how they were called, there was no writing back then. But we're certain they have nothing to do with the major Germanic tribes that you just mentioned, TF. I have to travel all across the Netherlands for my job, but I bought a laptop so I can still do TR.

blackbird · Post by **blackbird** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:11 pm

Original title! and congrats with your birthday.

Nog vele jaartjes!

agram · Post by **agram** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:38 pm

Happy birthday, hope you had a good day.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:00 am

Happy Birthday

fstony · Post by **fstony** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:19 pm

I figured that a job is an ok birthday present, but what you really needed was a fat stack of errors. So, Happy Birthday!

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:37 pm

theviking wrote:It is all in the Netherlands, that village was a bandceramic-culture village, who brought the agriculture to most parts of Europe. We can't know how they were called, there was no writing back then. But we're certain they have nothing to do with the major Germanic tribes that you just mentioned, TF. I have to travel all across the Netherlands for my job, but I bought a laptop so I can still do TR.

That's interesting stuff. There's the earthworks of a very small pre-Roman community just at the bottom of my road, I helped partially excavate it a few years ago. Don't know of anything local older than the Iron Age though.