Secrets of the Stone Age (1/2)
July 12, 2018 | DW Documentary
Posted on 07/28/2022 4:32:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Secrets of the Stone Age (1/2)
July 12, 2018 | DW Documentary
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During the Stone Age, humans shifted from the nomadic lifestyle to the more settled life of farmers. A documentary on an important period of human history.
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from nomads to settlers. That epoch, the Stone Age, produced monumental building works. Part 1 of this two-part documentary illuminates the cultural background of these structures and shows the difficulties Stone Age humans had to contend with. Until around 10,000 BC, humans lived as hunters and gatherers. Then an irreversible change began. Settlements formed. "For millions of years humans lived as foragers and suddenly their lives changed radically. This was far more radical than the start of the digital age or industrialization," says prehistorian Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. For a long time, scholars believed that a sedentary lifestyle was a prerequisite for constructing large buildings. Then archaeologist Klaus Schmidt discovered Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, a 12,000-year-old complex of stone blocks weighing up to 20 tons. Its builders were still hunter- gatherers. They decorated the stone columns with ornate animal reliefs. How these structures were used and who was allowed access to them remains a mystery. But we now know that the site was abandoned and covered over once settlements took root. Human development continued its course. The discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry led to larger settlements, a changed diet and ultimately to dependence on material goods. This social upheaval in the late Neolithic period has influenced our lives up to the present day. But experts agree that the monuments of the Stone Age prove that humans have gigantomanic tendencies and a need to immortalize themselves.
Stonecutters, not Freemasons.
I'm streaming part 2 right now, but plan to start over and quit now (I'm on the clock).
Secrets of the Stone Age (2/2)
July 12, 2018 | DW Documentary
Part 2 of this two-part documentary takes us to unique archaeological sites in Scotland, Brittany, Austria, Malta, Turkey and Jordan. The gigantic stone circles, temples and tombs from the Stone Age beg the question not only as to why this effort was made, but also of how, given the technical possibilities of the time, our ancestors were capable of building structures like the Barnenez burial mound or the stone ring of Orkney. How many people did they need to transport a 20-ton stone? A team led by experimental archaeologist Wolfgang Lobisser carries out a test with a wooden sledge and a two-ton stone block. The Neolithic seems to have been a fairly peaceful era; at least, no artifacts indicating military conflicts have been found so far. Raids and attacks that wiped out entire villages have only been confirmed for the later Bronze Age. But the foundations of many disputes were laid back then. In addition to cult objects, the Neolithic also saw the development of the first trading systems. "The people of the Neolithic were the first to become really dependent on material goods," says Marion Benz from the University of Freiburg, pointing to wafer-thin sandstone rings that researchers have found in large numbers in the Neolithic village of Ba'ja in Jordan. We need to know about prehistory in order to understand the present. Population explosion, consumerism and megacities are ultimately the heritage of the Neolithic period, when sedentary societies first appeared.
Because we have so many written records…..
Highly unlikely. Read War Before Civilization .
An excellent work on the state of warfare before history.
In reading Graham Hancock’s America Before I learned that the Younger Dyas event consisted of 21 years of bollides crashing to the planet twice a year—in June and again in late October, early November. The intensity was the greatest for the first 14 years and began tapering the last seven years. Unbelieveable that any humans lived through that—of course North American was wiped clean-—and this was before the event that brought an end to the Ice Age itself...
* The first archaeological excavator of Stonehenge was Inigo Jones.
* The Millenium Falcon was built and housed in Pembroke, 2 hrs drive from Stonehenge:
* Computer generated layout of Stonehenge and the Millenium Falcon patent:
"And people love the Falcon because, well, it is a piece of junk." Which could be said about Stonehenge as well.
So they were stoners...
mark
Thanks for posting, I’ll have a look.
“Then an irreversible change began.”
The way the Dems are going, I don’t think it is irreversible at all. We are all going to be pre-Stone Age people once again, hunting and gathering to survive.
If subsistence agriculture is practiced, North America can, at most, sustain 100 million dirt-poor farmers.
If subsistence agriculture is practiced, North America can, at most, sustain 100 million dirt-poor farmers.
We should also mention that this was a time of major world-wide climate change - North Africa going from temperate to semi-desert. All of the Mega fauna disappeared at this same time.
lol
My pleasure.
Yeah, I’m not open to the kumbaya interpretations of the left, which are merely an expedient affectation anyway. They don’t believe it either, they merely lie about it.
Remains of a Neolithic town somewhere in the Nile basin were excavated a few decades ago. All that’s left are the postholes and a thick layer of ash from the terminal fire. Throughout the ash were found thousands of arrow- and spearheads, possibly from the event that ended the city. The city dwellers (who didn’t build with brick or stone, obviously) and the assailants are of course unknown. Not sure any human remains were found, but the site wasn’t rebuilt.
The larger, original town at Catal Huyuk had a nice long existence (circa 7100 BC to 5700 BC), was knocked off (possibly by the large group or groups fleeing the Black Sea Flood), and a smaller settlement, apparently by survivors, was constructed on an adjacent site that had a better defensibility. That site lasted a mere 50 years. The original site apparently controlled the obsidian trade route, and its destruction was on the cusp of the transition to copper and then to bronze.
https://www.google.com/search?q=war+before+civililzation+youtube
Graham Hancock my behind.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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