Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Why? To soften the wool or something? I mean I get theydidn't have plumbing, but why involve the tweed?

Yes. It stripped the cloth of excess lanolin, got rid of the dirt & oils etc & it made the cloth thicker & softer.

 

[LozzyR]

You're asking me? I think you're in the ball park. I'm serious when I say I'm no scientist. The graphs & things are goobly~gook to me. Where I can steer away from the scientific jargon I can make sense of things. I get if you put eye~shadow in a clam shell you can't then use the shell for carbon dating as it is contaminated. lol But they will rabbit on about isotopic exchanges I do also get that the jargon is needed to be very specific but wading through it is a nightmare. Even with the lectures & lecture notes & dictionary to hand it is problematic. I have no science background @ all. I only did very elementary science @ high school & that was a very long time ago. My math, quite literally, is non~existant ~ & I have a physical reaction to it. It really does make me ill so I am paddling round trying to find other ways to make this work for me. Some people are brilliant @ explaining difficult concepts really simply & where I can find them I am using them.

I am not overly stressing. I know I've understood some of it & the archaeology I am doing for love. I'm not looking for employment in the field. A pass will do me just fine.

Ps get degrees!

 

[MaryJanet]

I suspect the Aboriginal mobs moved around more in their territories whereas the crofters farmed a little, raised a few livestock, fished a little & had croft industries (like tweed) that sold well in the southern markets. Mind you knowing how tweed was made has rather put me off it.

Getting back to the mobs, they did move around (through necessity) but they also cared for pasture by doing things like felling trees, clearing rubble, and burning. Improved pasture enticed roos for hunting. I once read the English were astounded at how well-cared for some of the pastures were and could gallop their horses across huge plains of beautiful grass without fear of the horses going lame or falling.

 

[Ribh]

Getting back to the mobs, they did move around (through necessity) but they also cared for pasture by doing things like felling trees, clearing rubble, and burning. Improved pasture enticed roos for hunting. I once read the English were astounded at how well-cared for some of the pastures were and could gallop their horses across huge plains of beautiful grass without fear of the horses going lame or falling.

Yes. They actually changed great swathes of our landscape through burning (& things went extinct because of it) because obviously hunting was easier through grasslands than forest. The man could get quite het about the damage they did to our flora.

 

[RoyalChick]

It is already Caturday in Australia.
I got the ladder out to put a new battery in the smoke detector.

Going up was easy.

If not particularly elegant.

The view from the top was enjoyable.

But getting down was trickier than it looked.

Happy Caturday everyone.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning/evening everyone

 

[Ribh]

It is already Caturday in Australia.
I got the ladder out to put a new battery in the smoke detector.

Going up was easy.
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If not particularly elegant.
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The view from the top was enjoyable.
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But getting down was trickier than it looked.
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Happy Caturday everyone.

That is a beautiful cat & a great picture story.

 

[RoyalChick]

That is a beautiful cat & a great picture story.

Thank you. I will let him know. He is napping right now.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm late for Caturday!

And I'm receiving a very heart-warming cuddle from my purring little friend.