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Stunning carvings of human figures and heads are uncovered at Karahantepe - one of the important settlements of the Neolithic period - revealing the artistic skills of people who lived in Turkey 11,000 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | UPDATED: 12:53 EDT, 1 October 2021 | By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 10/04/2021 5:06:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 10/04/2021 11:05:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Carvings of human figures and heads have been uncovered at an important settlement of Neolithic period

The discovery at Karahantepe in Turkey reveals the artistic skills of people who lived there 11,000 years ago

So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found at the excavation site

Digging at the site first began in 2019 and has also led to the discovery of a building with a diameter of 75ft

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Stunning carvings of human figures and heads have been uncovered at what is considered to be one of the most important settlements of the Neolithic period.

The discovery at Karahantepe, in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, reveals the artistic skills of people who lived there 11,000 years ago.

So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found, along with a number of three-dimensional human sculptures.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: ggg; gobeklitepe; godsgravesglyphs; karahantepe; mesolithic; neolithic; sanliurfa; turkey
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1 posted on 10/04/2021 5:06:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!.................


2 posted on 10/04/2021 5:06:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Kinda looks like Gerry Nadler...


3 posted on 10/04/2021 5:14:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

It does!...................


4 posted on 10/04/2021 5:22:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

God created Adam and eve complete and mature adults that never lived in caves per se’


5 posted on 10/04/2021 5:25:11 AM PDT by knarf (Isaiah 3:12<p>)
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To: Red Badger
It neighbours the UNESCO World Heritage site of Gobekli Tepe, which is home to megalithic structures dating to the 10th millennium BC and is thought to be the world's oldest temple site.

Watched an interesting YouTube video awhile back which compared carvings on the *back* of the Easter Island statues (I didn't even know there were carvings on the back!) with the carvings at gobekli tepe. Many iconic similarities including the bird-like creatures. Could these all be ruins from the same antediluvian culture?

6 posted on 10/04/2021 5:27:44 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: Red Badger
While going on about the carvings, only 3 badly eroded ones are shown. Here's the site : obviously made by the same culture that made Gobekli Tepe:
7 posted on 10/04/2021 6:00:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

Hunter Biden does better art than this. /s


8 posted on 10/04/2021 6:02:57 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2021 = 1984)
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To: Red Badger
revealing the artistic skills of people who lived in Turkey 11,000 years ago

. . . and who I guess would be imprisoned or killed if they showed up now, since Islam forbids art that portrays anything living. Doesn't that put those Neolithic dudes way ahead of the sh*thole Moslem country that sits above ground now--where it's illegal to create what the Turks just found?

The descendants of Turkmen from Central Asia who run the Anatolian peninsula now have no connection to the Neolithic geniuses who made this stuff. What will the Turks do? Destroy it? Probably sell it for the greater glory of money. (But please to be making sure there are no graven images on the bills.)

9 posted on 10/04/2021 6:06:07 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: PIF

Probably the same peoples.............


10 posted on 10/04/2021 6:16:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: PIF

Many more pictures here.

Karahan Tepe Is Older Than Gobekli Tepe

11 posted on 10/04/2021 6:36:49 AM PDT by blam
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To: Red Badger

11,000 years ago was before agriculture and domestication of animals. Had to do a lot of hunting and gathering to get all this manual labor done. Someone kad to be in charge too with a vision.


12 posted on 10/04/2021 6:43:19 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proved melanin is just enough to win elections Trump proves being good is not enough..)
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To: JeanLM
11,000 years ago was before agriculture and domestication of animals.

As far as we currently know. This site may have been the prototype.

13 posted on 10/04/2021 6:53:26 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Flick Lives

Or, it could be that they are unrelated. Especially since Easter island 8 or 9 thousand years later.


14 posted on 10/04/2021 7:02:27 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Red Badger

Let’s hope archeologist Indiana Jones doesn’t show up - he usually destroys archeological sites after removing one item.


15 posted on 10/04/2021 7:02:54 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: blam

They say the site is older than Gobekli, but nowhere did I see an actual date attesting to that. You have one?


16 posted on 10/04/2021 7:47:58 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

Easter Island


17 posted on 10/04/2021 8:15:04 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Red Badger

bookmark


18 posted on 10/04/2021 8:19:46 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Red Badger

No one has yet come across a radio or tv set or lost skyscrapers. I guess they are all buried under the oceans and the poles.


19 posted on 10/04/2021 8:39:47 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

“In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”.......................


20 posted on 10/04/2021 8:56:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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