Fossil Hug

[MrBern]

REUTERS

A pair of human skeletons lie in an eternal embrace at an Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in this photo released February 6, 2007. (Enrico Pajello/Handout/Reuters)

full story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/sc_nm/italy_embrace_dc

 

[LolitaHaze]

Beautiful...

 

[K.D. Lightner]

If I were teaching a creative writing class, I'd give them the assignment to create a short story about them.

karol

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

If I were teaching a creative writing class, I'd give them the assignment to create a short story about them.

karol

Perhaps you should start. You have their first assignment.

I am looking forward to reading of their age and how long they have been there

Mr. Bern should be a newspaper journalist. But then he'd have to write his own stories instead of showing other stories to read. lol

 

[MrBern]

Mr. Bern should be a newspaper journalist.

actually, I'm a graphic artist at a newspaper.

 

[CharlieH.]

Yipe! If this were unearthed on the 14th of this month, I'd get diabetes on the spot!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

So far, they are saying the couple (they believe it to be a man and a woman) are Neolithic, probably 5 to 6 thousands years old, and they are young, they have most or all of their teeth.

Hey, maybe I don't have to write about them. I think Shakespeare beat me to it!

karol

 

[Phil]

If I were teaching a creative writing class, I'd give them the assignment to create a short story about them.

karol

Guess what I got as an assignment to turn in Monday.

 

[Emmababy]

dat ain't no fossil, they have to be at least 10,000 years old


( i'm a geology geek )

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Phil: Wow, comparative literature -- A neolithic Romeo and Juliet.

karol

 

[MrBern]

dat ain't no fossil, they have to be at least 10,000 years old


( i'm a geology geek )

Interesting point.
Yet Wikipedia indicates there is no minimum age for a fossil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil

"Using radiometric dating techniques, geologists have determined most fossils to be several thousands to several billions of years old. Yet there is no minimum age for a fossil"

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Even fossils get more romance than I do.

 

[MrBern]

Even fossils get more romance than I do.

So you want to be an old fossil?

 

[BegintheBeguine]

lol I resemble that remark.

 

[Phil]

Phil: Wow, comparative literature -- A neolithic Romeo and Juliet.

karol

That's pretty much what I was going to go for. I'm assuming because it's so close to Valentine's Day that I should probably make it a love story. I was going to make it something actiony like a spy couple was caught and tied together and thrown into a lake or something like that. Not so much because I think that's what happened, but more because I never really liked to follow the crowd mentality.

I also wonder when this was actually found. They probably found it way earlier but held the discovery for mid Feb.

 

[MrBern]

Reports say it was found on Monday.

 

[Phil]

Yes well...
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
-Adam Savage

 

[Ruby Slippers]

MrBern told me about this! Personally, I can't help but wonder why they were clutching each other (probably in terror!) in the moments leading up to their deaths. It must have been something terrifying. Like Pompeii.

I gather it was a sudden death situation. There are all kinds of possibilities. Natural disaster? Execution? I hope someone follows up on this. Very curious indeed.

 

[Girl Friday]

I heard this story on NPR on Saturday (2/10) it made me get a little misty I have to admit. They said that after the scientist were finished with the testing these two were going to be put back together (so to speak). I guess I am an old softy, but I thought it was sweet...even if it was a disaster, plague or mass suicide, the two met their end together, and that is how they have and will remain.