Talk:Grooved Ware culture

message: How do we know they co-existed?  How do we know they didn't capture each others' potters and enslave them?  I'm sorry, just a crabby historian complaining about the deductions of archaeologists... ;)  I like this neolithic material!  It should be linked, I guess, from the archaeology page (with a subheader for 'sites'?) and neolithic. --MichaelTinkler
:Well, we still don't know what one of the rooms at Skara Brae was for... maybe it was a Pottery Research & Development facility. Still, I'll get onto fleshing the others out in good time -- Dweir
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Another thing occurred to me - this is the wrong place to put it, but shouldn't Neolithic/Bronze Age/Iron Age etc. for regions be on the Timeline?
There is now new evidence that the grooved ware people, a venus worshiping group of prehistory, were the first peoples to have developed the technology for the building in stone creating structures such as stone henge, and skara brae hundereds of years before the Egiptions built the pyrimids.  All Megalythic sites across briton are related to each other in two very importaint ways, first all are alined to observe vairous astronomical events, and second by a unit of measurement known as the megalythic yard.  These people were great traders and sailers, traveling as far as Israil and Irak to trade in stone and copper axe heads and tin.  With these exports however, other things were passed on to those peoples that they made contact with, these were the venus worshiping traditons and the knoledge of astrology and building in stone.  These Groved ware people once they had left the british iles are known in history as the Sumarians, whos name litteraly means those who arrived.  They have been discribed in history as having arrived with their culture already intact, already possesting vast knowledge in building, astrology and navigation.  It is now believed that Sumer begain as a trading out post of the grooved ware people, arising at the hight of the grooved ware civilisation in Briton.  As with all groups in history, when they reach a peak in productivity and success they expanded and set up trade routes and ports.  There is several bits of evidance to support this such as the fact that a vast amount of grooved ware pottery and tools have been found right accross europe and the middle east, where as not much material from other cultures has been found in and around the British Iles suggesting that the trafic was moving to the east rather than from it.  Other proof includes the fact that stone circles or henges have been found in Israil and Irak, and also in Africa.  In fact a particualy importaint and large stone circle has been found in Africa which is at a point on the planet where the sun shines directly down on the earth, which would have been a significant site for the astronomicaly minded Grooved ware people/sumerians.  Also interesting to note is a heaving duty pontoon for a port is still standing created from megalythic uprignt stones put there almost 4500 years ago right on the edge of one of the powerful trade currents flowing around africa.  This would have been an essential stop off station for trade traffic moving around affrica.  Several sites around the mediterainian have evidence of being once a trade port for these people, for example in Crete.  It is quite possible that the infulx of ideas and skills brought with these people kick started a whole host of civilisations, for example Abraham of the bible who is the traditional farther of the Jews came from land infulenced by the Sumerians, and Egipt has tablets discribing giant builder gods who showed them the scinece of astrology and building, baring in mind that the arverage hight of grooved ware person was 6'6" where as the average egiption was only around 5' at the time!.  for more information check out Robert lomas and Chriss Knight.
Knight and Lomas in their book "The Book ofHiram" provide some archeological evidence to support the grooved ware people trading and travelling.
Wickham-Jones, CR Scotland's First Settlers, Historic Scotland, 1994
Renfrew C Before Civilisation Jonathon Cape 1973
Mackie, E "The Megolithic Builders" Phaidon Press, 1977
Mccallanjam (talk) 01:18, 20 November 2013 (UTC)