"Archaeological wood specialist Maisie Taylor was able to see that 51 different bronze axes were used. This gives us an extraordinarily detailed view of a proce

"Archaeological wood specialist Maisie Taylor was able to see that 51 different bronze axes were used. This gives us an extraordinarily detailed view of a process of making that we rarely see. More detail is found in the dating. Dendrochronology (using tree rings) showed the trees were cut down in late spring of 2049 BC." Given how much of the past (even the relatively recent past) is lost forever, it gives me a thrill to see this level of precision of knowledge about something so very old. I can picture the people working the wood with their axes, lowering the stump with their rope. Something remote and abstract suddenly becomes real and present, and I can feel that these people had lives and minds and hopes and dreams much like my own, four thousand years ago.