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Mysterious megastructures of the elusive Tripolye culture unearthed in Ukraine
Fox News ^ | Sep 26 2019 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 09/26/2019 12:23:24 PM PDT by Openurmind

The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago.

The "megastructure" excavated in Ukraine was large compared with the houses around it, though not particularly huge by modern standards. At 2,045 square feet (190 square meters), the structure was the size of a modest American home. However, some Eastern European megastructures were up to 18,000 square feet (1,680 square m) in size. Archaeologists have puzzled over these buildings, many of which have been discovered through methods that use magnetic anomalies in the soil to detect ancient structures. Now, the actual excavation of this one megastructure at a site called Maidanetske reveals that these buildings were used for everyday activities, like food preparation, storage and meals.

"It is similar to activities performed in normal houses," said Robert Hofmann, an archaeologist at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, who led the new research. "Somehow the intensity of these activities between normal houses and these megastructures is completely different."

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TOPICS: Education; History; Science
KEYWORDS: ggg; godsgravesglyphs; maidanetske; neolithic; stoneage; tripolye; ukraine
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Not a new concept, in fact we still practice this today...

A community center, park, and gazebos with BBQ's for birthday hotdogs and burgers... :)

1 posted on 09/26/2019 12:23:24 PM PDT by Openurmind
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https://www.foxnews.com/science/mysterious-megastructures-of-the-elusive-tripolye-culture-unearthed-in-ukraine


2 posted on 09/26/2019 12:23:35 PM PDT by Openurmind
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Crowdstrike Server: FOUND!


3 posted on 09/26/2019 12:25:40 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Openurmind

Did Fox News hear about this from some virtue-signaling whistleblower????

:-)


4 posted on 09/26/2019 12:26:14 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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Heheheheh.....


5 posted on 09/26/2019 12:29:45 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Speaking of Crowdstrike... For ten years now it has been known that George Soros is and was always behind this with support of Agenda 21 and the UN behind it, What the hell is wrong that so many have no clue as of now what is behind that? Blind??? This has been known fact for a loooong time...

The fact that anyone even has to ask who crowdstrike is... Is scary as hell to me... Now it’s after the fact and history that will have to be revisited, when it was actually shared as it was happening day by day play by play at the time. Where was the disconnect from reality in this?


6 posted on 09/26/2019 12:34:56 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

I looked at that picture at the Fox site.

Can’t fool me.

That’s the Face On Mars.


7 posted on 09/26/2019 12:37:07 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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De-pixelize it and it’s better... lol


8 posted on 09/26/2019 12:39:54 PM PDT by Openurmind
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explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago

They switched from beef hamburgers to Impossible vegan Whoppers and died of malnutrition. A ditzy tribal woman told them climate change was coming if they didn't go vegan immediately

9 posted on 09/26/2019 12:44:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Openurmind

Trump’s fault.


10 posted on 09/26/2019 12:46:15 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Phuque all Democrats.)
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Mysterious megastructures of the elusive Tripolye culture unearthed in Ukraine

Let's give credit where credit is due....Trump. If it wasn't for his real estate experience and talking to the Ukraine Prime Minister, this discovery never would have happened.

Of course, the left would somehow blame Trump for the causing the extinction of the people that built this.

11 posted on 09/26/2019 12:50:32 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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Great.

More friggin news about Ukraine...


12 posted on 09/26/2019 12:51:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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used for everyday activities

Finally, some common sense. Not every structure can possibly be used for sacrificing to the gods.

13 posted on 09/26/2019 12:54:16 PM PDT by bgill
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“It seemed that there may have been different levels of assembly places for different segments of society, Hofmann said.

Over time, he said, the smaller megastructures disappeared from the settlements, leaving only the largest in use. This change may provide some hint of centralization — and that centralization may have eventually spelled doom for Tripolye’s big-city ways. Between 3650 B.C. and 3500 B.C., the megasites dissolved, and the people of the Tripolye culture returned to living in smaller villages. The lack of low-level assembly places before this change might indicate that ordinary people became less and less involved in the government of the community, ultimately leading to its dissolution.”
Proof once more that socialism fails every time.


14 posted on 09/26/2019 12:59:26 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Openurmind

15 posted on 09/26/2019 1:08:43 PM PDT by Gamecock (Time is short Eternity is long It is reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity)
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Seriously... You have no idea how refreshing it is to see that I am not the only one to NOT classify EVERY pile of rocks as a PAGAN RELIGIOUS AND HUMAN SACRIFICIAL ALTER. lol

This is still the hold over of the historic Anglican Christian archaeology and anthropology movement of the 1800s... I don’t know if you have noticed or not, but it is still alive and well.


16 posted on 09/26/2019 1:11:08 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: frank ballenger

They switched from beef hamburgers to Impossible vegan Whoppers and died of malnutrition. A ditzy tribal woman told them climate change was coming if they didn’t go vegan immediately

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It could also have been the decision to start giving everyone a Participation Trophy at Hunting and Gathering School and deciding that grading the children’s work was just too stressful on the little dears.


17 posted on 09/26/2019 1:17:28 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Openurmind; SunkenCiv

18 posted on 09/26/2019 2:02:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Grimmy

Well said. There was a time when you either paid attention and learned by practice or you died of malnutrition period. Survival by natural selection as it should be.

And what is to come very soon...


19 posted on 09/26/2019 2:27:40 PM PDT by Openurmind
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The Dnieper is the origin and route of the Scandinavian cultures that moved north during a heat wave...


20 posted on 09/26/2019 2:31:55 PM PDT by Openurmind
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