Fill Your Gas Tanks -- Today Or Monday -- August 23, 2020

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August 28, 2020: from the standpoint of energy, this hurricane was a nothing-burger. Lake Charles was hit hard but this hurricane was certainly over-hyped by the Weather Channel.

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 It's coming.

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The History Page

Stonehenge: the narrower focus of [this book] is southern Britain, roughly south of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel, and the Neolitic "Windmill Hill" culture and its successors down to the Bronze Age.

• the Wash
  
• the Bristol Channel
• the "Windmill Hill" culture
• southern Britain
• 3000 BC
• Neolithic
• long barrows
  

Stonehenge, John North, c. 1996.

An "a-ha" moment. In discussing the tombs from Neolithic/early Bronze Age periods in southern Britain the author noted that 

"... several tombs have been found surrounded by thousands of shards of pots that had originally been placed on the tomb, a witness to some or other ritual of offerings continuing long after the primary interment. Similar collections of shards deposited over very long periods of time are found at many Neolithic sites throughout Europe."

Most likely, descendants of the dead, even generations later were bringing pots of water and/or food to help the dead in their after-life journey. Interestingly -- the "a-ha" moment for me: modern men and women have carried on that tradition by bringing flowers (and sometimes other mementos) to gravesites long after the funeral. Most likely intact pots were brought to the tombs by Neolithic folks and only subsequently ended up broken.

Word for the day: dolmen. [Later: a reader responds.]