Green rocks were often favoured in order to create polished stone axes used in ceremonial rites. They were transported from the Alps all over Europoe. Green rocks were also dug out of rocks on Langdale Pike in the Lake District and traded throughout the British Isles. The Chinese venerated green jade and it was used in ritual and ceremony over a very long period of time. Jadeite was another rock that was traded far and wide. In the Americas the green eyes of jaguars were a common theme in myth and ritual. What was it that attracted human societies to the colour green? Why has it survived as a major colour in flags? The key, as far as Islam is concerned, are the storm of meteorites seen by Mohammed shortly before his rise to fame as the originator of a new religion. Meteorites are often green when seen in the night sky streaking across the top of the atmosphere. The green comas of comets are in the same league – probably going back much further into prehistory. Then we have the key – polished green axes are actually a substitute of a meteorite. Look at the double axe symbol as seen in the Minoan era. In the Bronze ages. And don’t forget the colour green is strongly associated with auroral phenomena – which can be seen on occasion as far south as the subtropics.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ai-prehistoric-routes-europe-prized.html … here we have a study tracking the trade of green gemstones across western Europe in the prehistoric world. These are not rock but were used to create jewels and items to adorn clothing and bodies. Jewellery was not, initially, an item of value. It had a ritual role and the further one goes into the past the more that ritual role was involved in the trade. The source of the gems was variscite, a mineral with a characteristic green colour that was mined in several locations on the Iberian peninsular from the 6th to the 2nd millinniums BC [roughly 6000 t0 1000BC]. It was used to make necklaces, bracelets, rings, and so on, adorment closely associated with myth and pagan religion. However, using A1 to aid in identifying the most likely locations of the variscite would not of course come up with a reason associated with meteorites. There aren’t many studies out there for A1 to seek out and put in the pot for a conclusion. It involves catastrophism – which is off limits as far as mainstream is concerned and therefore would never be a feature scanned by A1 hungry computers.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-richest-iron-age-burial-assemblage.html … we seem to have another example of mainstream Iron Age chronology causing a problem in interpretation of the archaeology. Examination of an Iron IIC cremation burial at Horvat Tevet in the Jezreel Valley has thrown up a chronological mystery buried in the past. The Assyrian empire exapanded over all the Levant to the borders of Egypt, and for awhile, even Egypt itself. This was the situation in the 7th century when the kingdom of Judah was economically at its zenith under Manesseh. Yet, we are told the Assyrians did not exploit the Jezreel Valley – on the basis the 7th century = Iron IIC. Clearly, it wasn’t. Iron IIC was probably the 6th century – perhaps the early Persian period when we know the southern Levant had become impoverished via Biblical references in the time of Ezra. People had been deported to Babylonia and other regions of the empire of Nebuchadnezzar. The Babylonians, and the Medes, were not as economically centred as the Assyrians. In fact, if Iron IIA is downdated as Silberman and Finkelstien suggested, it is necessary to also shift IIC later as well. Peter James went for an even deeper relocation – but simply dating IIC a century later would satisfy the mystery as discovered at Horvat Tevet. The finds themselves appear to date to the Assyrian empire period. It is simply the chronological placement that is awry – as a result of dating the beginning of the Iron Age too early. Even C14 in Assyria itself, at Nineveh, the city built by Sennacherib and his successors, suggests a chronological hole of between 100 and 180 years. Say 150 years to be safe – roughly the same timespan as the Iron Age plateau in Europe that has vexed archaeologists in that region for so many years.
Some of the finds in cremation urn burials display a connection with the Phoenicians – also absorbed into the empire of Assyria, as well as Assyrian products of genuine 7th century provenance. For a fuller understanding to what was found see https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2025.2550116 …