The origins of the Northern European meadhall culture - expressed by the Germanic tribes - ultimately come from the Neolithic period. (Pollington, 2003; Gautier, 2006; Hornsey, 2012, p.341).
"The 'hall' - A high building with space inside to gather and hold a community - comes to the fore with the adoption of agriculture and the establishment of fixed settlements with defined boundaries and resources." -Stephen Pollington, Woden: A Historical Companion.
Image: Reconstruction of a Nordic Bronze Age longhouse at Hunneberget in Vætland, near Kristianstad, Scania, Sweden (from Björk & Carlie 2003, drawing by Björn Nilsson).
The origins of the Northern European meadhall culture - expressed by the Germanic tribes - ultimately come from the Neolithic period. (Pollington, 2003; Gautier, 2006; Hornsey, 2012, p.341).
"The 'hall' - A high building with space inside to gather and hold a community - comes to the fore with the adoption of agriculture and the establishment of fixed settlements with defined boundaries and resources." -Stephen Pollington, Woden: A Historical Companion.
Image: Reconstruction of a Nordic Bronze Age longhouse at Hunneberget in Vætland, near Kristianstad, Scania, Sweden (from Björk & Carlie 2003, drawing by Björn Nilsson).
On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." Telegram Messenger Blocks Navalny Bot During Russian Election "Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion.
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