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Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
New Study Reveals Chilling Secret of Iron Age War Cemetery
A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology) has revealed surprising information about bodies found at a 'war cemetery' at the Iron Age site of Maiden Castle in Dorset, one of the U.K.'s most famous archaeological the burials were initially discovered in 1936, archaeologists believed that they died from a single battle. But after renewed analyses using radiocarbon dating, researchers found that rather than perishing in one mass-casualty event, the individuals had been killed due to violent clashes throughout many generations, from late first century B.C. until late first century A.D. 'The find of dozens of human skeletons displaying lethal weapon injuries was never in doubt, however, by undertaking a systematic programme of radiocarbon dating we have been able to establish that these individuals died over a period of decades, rather than a single terrible event,' said Martin Smith, Associate Professor in Forensic and Biological Anthropology at Bournemouth, who analyzed the believe the cause of the deaths could have stemmed from an era of dynastic turmoil or localized tension, resulting in executions. Whatever the cause, the new discovery upends decades of assumptions on behalf of researchers. 'Since the 1930s, the story of Britons fighting Romans at one of the largest hillforts in the country has become a fixture in historical literature,' Miles Russell, the dig's director, explained. 'With the Second World War fast approaching, no one was really prepared to question the results. The tale of innocent men and women of the local Durotriges tribe being slaughtered by Rome is powerful and poignant. It features in countless articles, books, and TV documentaries. It has become a defining moment in British history, marking the sudden and violent end of the Iron Age.'The trouble is it doesn't appear to have actually happened,' Russell added. 'Unfortunately, the archaeological evidence now points to it being untrue. This was a case of Britons killing Britons, the dead being buried in a long-abandoned fortification. The Roman army committed many atrocities, but this does not appear to be one of them.' Researchers are now scrambling to recontextualize the site, with much of what they assumed about the cemetery at Maiden Castle proving erroneous. "The intermingling of differing cultural burial practices contemporaneously shows that simplistic approaches to interpreting archaeological cemeteries must now be questioned,' said Bournemouth archaeological scientist Paul Cheetham. 'Here we have either a number of distinct cultures living and dying together, or that an individual's burial right was determined by complex social rules and/or hierarchical divisions within this Iron Age society."In addition to the renewed context surrounding the bodies already found, the team is now asking themselves what other undiscovered secrets might lie around the grounds of Maiden Castle. 'Whilst Wheeler's excavation was excellent in itself, he was only able to investigate a fraction of the site,' Cheetham said. 'It is likely that a larger number of burials still remains undiscovered around the immense ramparts."New Study Reveals Chilling Secret of Iron Age War Cemetery first appeared on Men's Journal on May 29, 2025
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Tiger Woods' son Charlie wins biggest prize of career to date
Charlie Woods has defeated a collection of America's top junior golfers on his way to his biggest success to date by far. The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods, perhaps the most famous golfer ever to have played the game, undoubtedly made his father proud with a final-round 66 to win the Team TaylorMade Invitational in Bowling Green, Florida on Wednesday by three strokes. Woods jnr can now call himself a champion on the world's premier youth circuit. The teenager from The Benjamin School – the independent establishment near to where his divorced parents both live – came into the prestigious event way down in 604th in the American Junior Golf Association rankings, with his best finish in five starts a tie for 25th in March. There was an impressive victory in the 14-15-year-old category, as well as the Last Chance Regional later in 2023, but this was a huge jump in standard. Yet despite the 54-hole invitational event obviously being for select players only, Woods silenced the mutterings of special treatment and emphatically justified his sponsor inclusion by leaving behind the likes of star amateur Miles Russell. He stormed through his six-under effort on the 7,249-yard Streamsong Black layout, that is longer than some PGA Tour stops. 🚨🏆☑️ #WINNING MOMENT — Charlie Woods wins the TaylorMade Invitational, locking up his first career AJGA win. — TWLEGION (@TWlegion) May 28, 2025 The fact that Russell was left trailing in seventh will certainly raise eyebrows. Last year, when still in high school, Russell became the youngest player to make the cut on the Korn Ferry Tour – the PGA Tour's main feeder circuit – when he tied for 20th at the LECOM Suncoast Classic. That earned him two starts on the Tour proper and at the Rocket Mortgage Classic and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship Russell's scoring average was sub-70. Luke Colton, the 17-year-old who is another established member in the world's top five, was also in the field and the highly rated Texan was fancied to prevail when he took a one-shot lead into the last round. However, Woods, who opened the tournament with a 70 and a 65, made five birdies on the opening nine to grasp the advantage and then birdied three of his next four, before coasting into the clubhouse with four straight pars. It was reminiscent of the great man himself and added so much substance to the hype that he had attracted since he first played with his father in the PGA Tour's parent-child feature-piece – the PNC Championship – in 2020 as an 11-year-old. The pair have yet to win that event, but social media has long been in rapture for the swing similarities between the duo. It's in the DNA. Congrats to Charlie Woods on winning his first AJGA event! — Skratch (@Skratch) May 28, 2025 However, Woods snr has remained adamant that he will realise his ambition and eventually crack the big time if he sticks to being himself. 'Yeah, I mean, I just am always reminding him, just be you,' he said last year. 'Charlie is Charlie. Yes, he's my son. He's going to have the last name and he's going to be part of the sport. But I just want him to be himself and just be his own person. That's what we will always focus on. 'Being constantly filmed and constantly just – people watching him, that's just part of his generation, and that's part of the world that he has to manoeuvre through. I try to do the best job I possibly can as a parent. I'm always here for him. But at the end of the day, I just want him to be himself and have his own life.'
New York Times
5 days ago
- General
- New York Times
Tiger Woods' son Charlie shoots 66 to win his first American Junior Golf tournament
Charlie Woods, the 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods, won a prestigious junior golf tournament Wednesday, shooting 15-under over three rounds to capture the American Junior Golf Association's Team Taylormade Invitational Title at Streamsong Black in Florida. With scores of 70-65-66, Woods' victory at the top-level junior event marks his best accomplishment in amateur golf thus far. Advertisement Woods, ranked No. 606 on the AJGA's Rolex Junior Golf rankings, was the second-lowest ranked player in the field of 72. He beat the No. 1 junior in the country, 16-year-old Miles Russell, by six shots. The tournament also included top college recruits from across the country, including a majority of players coming from the 2025 and 2026 graduating classes. Starting on June 15, Woods, a high school sophomore, can begin communicating with college coaches per the NCAA Division I recruiting guidelines for golf. A post shared by American Jr Golf Association (@ajgagolf) The AJGA is the top tour for junior golfers in the U.S., and Woods' previous best result was a T25 finish at the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley. Woods also attempted to qualify for the U.S. Open this spring, shooting 75 in his local-stage qualifier, missing by seven shots. It was a significant improvement, however, from his attempt last season, in which he shot a 9-over-par 81. In 2024, Woods qualified for but missed the cut at the U.S. Junior Amateur, an event that his father won three years in a row, making history. Since 2020, the father-son Woods duo has competed together in the PGA Tour's parent-child event, the PNC Championship. As a pair, they have placed runner-up twice, in 2021 and 2024. Woods made his first hole-in-one at last year's event, with his sister, Sam, on the bag.
Telegraph
6 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
The gruesome truth behind a 2,000-year-old massacre revealed
Gangland executions of dozens of people 2,000 years ago were wrongly blamed on Romans, a study has found. A mass burial site containing 62 skeletons was found at Maiden Castle in Dorset in 1936 and attributed to a brutal massacre by pillaging Romans. But researchers at Bournmouth University used modern dating techniques to study the bones and found the victims suffered violent deaths before the Romans landed on English soil, disproving the longstanding belief that the massacre was part of their ruthless invasion. Instead, modern evidence paints a picture of revenge, bloodthirsty executions and tumultuous politics. Miles Russell, the current dig director, said: 'We can now say quite categorically that these individuals died a long time before the Romans arrived and over a long period of time, not in a single battle for a hill fort. 'The deaths were a series of gangland-style executions. People were dragged up there and put to death as a way of one group exerting control over another. 'These were Mafia-like families. Game of Throne-like barons with one dynasty wiping out another to control trade links and protection rackets for power. What we are seeing is the people who lost out being executed.' The skeletons themselves bore marks of savage ferocity. Most, Mr Russell said, have smashed skulls with no defensive wounds. 'They were repeatedly struck with a sword to the head with the skulls smashed to oblivion,' he added. 'You are talking overkill, not a single death blow. These were gangland executions carried out in a very prominent and obvious way as a warning to others.' The researchers believe the now debunked theory was accepted as truth because it was espoused by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who led excavations at the site in the 1930s, and resonated with public fear of a potential invasion from the Nazis. The majority of this violence was at the start of the first century AD, the scientists found, which they say reveals rising social tensions in the decades preceding the Roman invasion in 43AD. 'In associating the cemetery with a Roman attack, Sir Mortimer Wheeler missed an intriguing proposition, namely that the individuals derived from different, though no less dramatic, forms of violence enacted in the final years of the pre-Roman Iron Age,' the scientists write in their paper. 'Whether this related to raiding, dispute resolution or dynastic conflict, it is clear that those interred in the east gate died in episodic periods of bloodshed which may have been the result of localised social turmoil. 'Ironically, perhaps, it would appear that acts of interpersonal Iron Age violence ended within a generation or so following the formal establishment of a Roman province in the mid first century AD.' The study is published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.
USA Today
16-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Miles Russell back at LECOM Suncoast Classic, where he was youngest to make Korn Ferry cut
Miles Russell back at LECOM Suncoast Classic, where he was youngest to make Korn Ferry cut The world found out a year ago at this time about Miles Russell that those in the Florida First Coast golf community already knew: he's pretty good at golf. Russell became the youngest player at 15 to ever make the cut at a Korn Ferry Tour event at the LECOM Suncoast Classic at Lakewood National near Bradenton, Florida. He then went on to tie for 20th and earn a spot in the following week's event in Arlington, Texas. Russell returns to Lakewood National beginning on Thursday, playing on a sponsor invitation from the LECOM Classic. He also joins 17-year-old Blades Brown, who turned professional in January. Russell is still an amateur and is coming off one of his most impressive junior victories, winning the Sage Valley Invitational last month. He's ranked first on the American Junior Golf Association and Junior Golf Scoreboard. He's got some company in the field from other First Coast players such as former University of North Florida player Nick Gabrelcik, former Jacksonville University player Raul Pereda, Bartram Trail High graduate Julian Suri and Nease graduate Marcus Plunkett, who played golf at Army West Point.
