A temple dating back about 6,000 years has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. Credit: courtesy Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko/Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Posted on 11/02/2014 8:37:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine.
Built before writing was invented, the temple is about 60 by 20 meters (197 by 66 feet) in size. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko...
Inside the temple, archaeologists found the remains of eight clay platforms, which may have been used as altars, the finds suggested. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko... The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created [a] ceremonial atmosphere."
The ground floor contains seven additional platforms and a courtyard riddled with animal bones and pottery fragments0 buildings and nearly 50 streets...
Fragments of figurines, some of which look similar to humans, were also found at the temple...
Ornaments made of bone and gold were also discovered at the temple. The gold ornaments are less than an inch in size and may have been worn on the hair, researchers say.
At the time the prehistoric settlement near Nebelivkaflourished other early urban centers were being developed in the Middle East. And the newly discovered prehistoric temple is similar, in some ways, to temples from the fifth to fourth millennia B.C. that were built in ancient Middle East cities, such as those in Anatolia and Mesopotamia, Burdo and Videiko note.
For example a 6,000-year-old temple at the ancient city of Eridu, in modern-day Iraq, also had a floor partitioned into smaller rooms, they note.
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A temple dating back about 6,000 years has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. Credit: courtesy Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko/Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.
I did my best to ignore it and finally realized it wouldn't open
If any fellow freeper figures out how to-—— never mind-
BTW the 6000 year old building in Ukraine is the best news out of that country I've seen in weeks
Thx
It’s kind of strange that so much stuff was still in the building. It’s as if it were abandoned in a hurry. No time to pack and no time for anyone to loot it.
It’s kind of strange that so much stuff was still in the building. It’s as if it were abandoned in a hurry. No time to pack and no time for anyone to loot it.
Musta been Russkies coming.
The Slovaks and Czechs are a recent example, but even most Slavs were undifferentiated as recently as 600 AD - Poles, Czechs, East Slavs, Southern Slavs spoke the same language and were one "ethnicity"
Even Germanics spoke similar languages around the time of Christ
Nebelivka
Some alternate theories: 6000 year old restaurant, bed and breakfast, marketplace, house of prostitution...
They had obamacare way back then.
They have founds ruins that are more advanced then this that date back up to 32,000 years ago. And for them to assume that 6,000 years ago is before the written word is stupid. It would be better to state that this was during a time when people had forgotten how to write in the area of the discovery.
Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns [writing 20,000 years ago?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1406892/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gobeklitepe/index?tab=articles
Thanks all, these were probably ancestors of someone later found along the shores of the Med and Aegean.
East Bulgaria Reveals Minoan Pertainence
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1326899/posts
German Scientists: Europe’s Oldest Script Found In Bulgaria (Minoan)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1406648/posts
That’s my personal favorite kind of bikini. On certain people anyway.
Rats, I didn’t get a link to the transparent bikini site. But I did get a link to an interesting story about the discovery of a Dutch shipwreck off Tobago from a 17th Century battle with the French. The archeologist’s summary of the battle: everybody dies.
Ah, but since it’s transparent, you may have got there and missed it. Happens to me all the time. BTW, when vehicle shopping, be very careful when you Google “hummer”.
thanks for the info, I have read a lot about gobeklitepe but nothing about the Paleosigns
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