Sky Disk of Debra Interpretion

OK, so a 3,700 year old ultra sophisticated clock/computer was discovered in Germany by archeologists sending shock waves through the scientific community.

"We have been dramatically underestimating the prehistoric peoples," said Harald Meller, chief archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, where the disc was found.

I'm always dumbfounded that we continue to be dumbfounded by the sophistication of early human intelligence. But I dare you to show me any aspect of our core psychology as having evolved into any sort of higher, more compassionate or insightful plain.

"The functioning of this clock was probably known to a very small group of people," Meller said.

Like maybe three people who knew when leap year—the intercalary month— was going to happen? I guess those three were out planting seeds before anyone else and considered magi. "Quick Omo, hide the plate!”

It is beautiful though, all 13" inches of it. Gold-leaf appliqués, the sun, the moon, the stars (they are thought to be the Pleiades as they appeared 3,600 years ago), the mind-blowing linking of solar and lunar calendars and the oldest star chart on record—all from the Bronze Age where we thought the only game into town was Hammer the Point and Throw the Rock in the Air and Run.

“According to astronomer Wolfhard Schlosser of the Rurh University at Bochum, the Bronze Age sky gazers already knew what the Babylonians would describe only a thousand years later.

"Whether this was a local discovery, or whether the knowledge came from afar, is still not clear," Schlosser said.

O oh. How far is "afar?"

Interestingly enough, archeologists believe that the use and understanding of the sky disk was lost over time and that eventually it became a cult object, which would be like someone 400 years from now praying over an Apple laptop I guess. Perhaps there were Bronze Age Teabaggers bitching about a good thing (manipulated by crop insurers methinks) and destroying its value for everyone. I can hear them now chanting slogans at the three astronomers (but spelling the slogans wrong in their heads)—"Lucky Guessers, Lucky Guessers!!!”

After that I guess we entered the era known as the Chaotic Planting Age....again.