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MagnaMater

MagnaMater

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we wondered if there was any english book-forum like our german one, and so some of us landed here...

for all the owls MagMa is still the same,
for all the others it needs an explanation:

born to a well situated family, educated as archeologist, but mainly unemployed and from her tenants and parents kept from starving between her bookcases, able to persue her favourite hobby, reading on her sun couch
(if not playing her favourite PC Games: Gothic 1,2,3 and The Witcher)

favourite topics: archelogy, history, mythology, historical fiction (Pillars of the earth, Name of the Rose), fantasy, SF, crime,...

favourite english author: Terry Pratchett

favourite music: classical, medieval, metal, gothic, folk, rock...

vegetarian, non-smoker, anti-alcoholic (if not for red wine), pantheist (if not for her membership of IBKA), ecologist, no-car-owner, non-conformist (if not for being a goth-metal fan and in the black and silver uniform),... and other things I can't think of right now...

flaws: egocentric, self posessed, arrogant and lazy
virtues: can be rather funny if cares to

if you see an aging and greying goth, her paleolithic venus figure covered entirely in black with heavy historical silver jewelry, ignoring you because she's carrying a book in her hand on the streets to read... this might be me.
 
:D your favourite culture/age?
mine is bronze age, though I like the neolitics and the celtic and viking artwork, the tuscans and the elder iron-age, too
my favourite pottery is the late neolithic from northern italy because their lugs and aunjetice... hm is that written like that in english? *frown*

The museum of Verruchio has some the best preserved iron age findings, I love their amber jewels...
uh, the link does not work :confused: doesn't matter, go to google, put in Verucchio, and there will be a link to the museum homepage...
 
Nothing too spectacular, just pre-Columbian MesoAmerica and Rome.

Speaking of amber jewelry, I collect amber with inclusions, as well as other fossils. :p
 
Mayas and Aztecs are rather colourful, I like that, though I like my artwork less quadrangular and big... does this word exist? eckig und klotzig...

Perhaps you can help me: What was the name of the south american culture that built their fortresses with small stones, that almost look like medieval european fortresses? - well, at least, what is left of them, what isn't much... more or less the foundations, half of first floor. I saw a documentary once, didn't write it down at once and forgot it. It's older than Maya and Aztecs, was before 1100+ and its southern border, as far as it was known at the time of the documentary was in the area of the brazilian rainforest

Rome... have you seen the TV-seria?
I thought it was rather funny, though all my collegues cried: scandal! anti-historic, blah blah... : but I simply loved them, Vorenus and Titus Pullo:lol: now I'm waiting rather eagerly for the film...
 
MagnaMater said:
Mayas and Aztecs are rather colourful, I like that, though I like my artwork less quadrangular and big... does this word exist? eckig und klotzig...

Perhaps you can help me: What was the name of the south american culture that built their fortresses with small stones, that almost look like medieval european fortresses? - well, at least, what is left of them, what isn't much... more or less the foundations, half of first floor. I saw a documentary once, didn't write it down at once and forgot it. It's older than Maya and Aztecs, was before 1100+ and its southern border, as far as it was known at the time of the documentary was in the area of the brazilian rainforest

Rome... have you seen the TV-seria?
I thought it was rather funny, though all my collegues cried: scandal! anti-historic, blah blah... : but I simply loved them, Vorenus and Titus Pullo:lol: now I'm waiting rather eagerly for the film...
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Olmec?

There's going to be a Rome movie? Cool!
 
Welcome MagnaMater.
MagnaMater said:
your favourite culture/age?
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I don't have one but I am fascinated by art and glyphs from different cultures and ages - Rongorongo, petroglyphs, geoglyphs, murals, and mosaics.

MagnaMater said:
What was the name of the south american culture that built their fortresses with small stones, that almost look like medieval european fortresses?
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The Chachapoyas and Kuelap or the Inca and Machu Picchu?
 
@ Sleepy: Sleepy is an ex-owl? Fugitive? Was somebody in the nest getting on your nerves? I hope it wasn't me :innocent: - if it was, forgive me!:flowers:

@ Occlith: It weren't the Incas, nor the Olmecs, though their name was rather short, perhaps Kuelap :confused:. It was a culture definitively not famous or much written about, because I never heard of it again. (Mind, I'm not specialised on american precolumbian archaeology)
 
Glyphs are great, I like them, too, unluckily you don't always find them. Talking about Mosaics. I've been to Torcello this summer - I think the Day of Judgement there is one of the greatest byzantine Mosaics.
Mind, I don't talk about the... - was it called Nile-mosaic? - at Preneste, but that's roman and almost untoppable. Those tinytinytiny pinhead pieces in their hardly changing colours creating shadows. It flattened me standing in front of it. I couldn't believe it, somebody did such a work. I'd definitively lack patience, and get into fits half way finished.
 
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