19 Feb 16
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Originally posted by sonhouseWhen I try to access your link, I'm getting a "502 Bad Gateway" error.
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-prehistoric-village-links-stone-ages.html
predates everything in the middle east including the watchtower (9000 years old)
Might be temporary, I'll try again later.
EDIT: It was temporary, I saw the page. Fascinating.
For further reading, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natufian_culture
19 Feb 16
Originally posted by wolfgang59There was a stone found with some writing on it, something about Bernie Sanders wanting to raise taxes for infrastructure, but then a sudden unknown calamity befell the dwellings.
What about the roads?
The sanitation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
19 Feb 16
Originally posted by wolfgang59We had roads, you think we were primitive or something? We had to hew the roads out by hand however. We would take some logs maybe 2 hands wide and 20 hands long and four or six guys would take a running start and then ram it into the ground. That would give us about 2 hands width of surface removal then smooth it out with big rocks we would lift up in the air and drop on the new surface. Took some time but we had a lot of logs around since back then there were a lot more forests than now in the Jordan Valley!
What about the roads?
The sanitation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
20 Feb 16
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Originally posted by sonhouseWhat about Gobekli Tepi, ???
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-prehistoric-village-links-stone-ages.html
predates everything in the middle east including the watchtower (9000 years old)
edit: at least 11,000 years old apparently and according to wiki:
... Through the radiocarbon method, the end of Layer III can be fixed at about
9000 BCE (see above) but it is believed that the elevated location may have
functioned as a spiritual center by 11,000 BCE or even earlier, essentially at
the very end of the Pleistocene.
20 Feb 16
Originally posted by wolfgang59Again, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natufian_culture
What about Gobekli Tepi, ???
edit: at least 11,000 years old apparently and according to wiki:
... Through the radiocarbon method, the end of Layer III can be fixed at about
9000 BCE (see above) but it is believed that the elevated location may have
functioned as a spiritual center by 11,000 BCE or even earlier, essentially at
the very end of the Pleistocene.
Radiocarbon dating places the Natufian culture from the terminal Pleistocene to the very beginning of the Holocene, from 12,500 to 9,500 BC.
Some archaeologists place Göbekli Tepe well within the time period and perhaps the same culture, even though Göbekli Tepe is much further north, just over the Turkish border.
The Natufian culture may have had wide influence in the region, with up to 20 sites often cited as belonging to the Natufian culture spread out over the region, extending as far as Turkey and Syria in the north to Jordan and the Sinai in the south. So this is more than just a couple of sites recently found.