6,000-Year-Old Temple Unearthed in Ukraine

Sci-News ^ | October 22, 2014

[2ndDivisionVet]

A team of archaeologists led by Dr Mykhailo Videiko of the Kyiv Institute of Archaeology has discovered the remains of a 6,000-year-old temple at a Trypillian culture village near modern-day Nebelivka, Ukraine.

Trypillian culture derives its name from the village of Trypillia in Kyiv region, Ukraine, where artifacts of this ancient civilization were first discovered in 1896.

Archeological excavations show that Trypillian people lived from about 5400 to 2700 BC on a vast area extending from the Carpathian piedmont, east to the Dnipro River, and south to the shores of the Black sea.

The culture is characterized by advanced agriculture, developed metallurgy, pottery-making, sophisticated architecture and social organization, including the first proto-cities on European soil.

Trypillian society was matriarchal, with women heading the household, doing agricultural work, and manufacturing pottery, textiles and clothing. Hunting, keeping domestic animals and making tools were the responsibilities of the men.

The most notable aspect of the Trypillian culture was the periodic destruction of settlements, with each single-habitation site having a roughly 60 to 80 year lifetime....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ConorMacNessa.

[wardaddy]

Is it just me or does all archeology and anthropology today center on ways to deconstruct what we have believed as western civilization since Sumeria

Diminish anything deemed white or declare it non white

Establish matriarchal folklore as reality....Shieldmaidens etc

Case in point.....

Reluctance to accept that Amerindians ate one another

Enthusiasm to believe any quasi Euro tribe did

That’s just one thing...

[gleeaikin]

If you are not already acquainted with Gloria Farley’s book “They All Discovered America” you will find it immensely
interesting. She has made a lifetime study and photographing of rock inscriptions all over the country, and concluded that many different European, Middle Eastern, and North African cultures came and left marks, including ancient Hebrews.

[SunkenCiv]

I first ran across Gloria Farley in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when there was an explosion of interest in PreColumbian navigation/contact/migration. Even Penguin books had a title, from Salvatore Michael Trento. Gloria does a pretty good job, doesn’t get dragged down certain rabbit holes as does, for example, Frank Joseph.

[SunkenCiv]

No, it isn’t that way at all. There are those few who push an agenda, and it’s important to not concede ground to them, the same way that it is important not to stop fighting against the global warming hoax.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/loslunas/index

[PIF]

“Reluctance to accept that Amerindians ate one another”

One of the first things I learned when I moved to the PNW in the mid-70s was that according to Tribal oral history the Skykomish were cannibals even to the early days of non-Indian settlements.

[Bigg Red]

Trypillian society was matriarchal, with women heading the household, doing agricultural work, and manufacturing pottery, textiles and clothing.

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What? How does evidence that women were doing traditional women’s work amount to a matriarchal society? Of course, the women did all of those tasks, as have women in countless societies in which the men must devote time to the hunt.

Maybe the doofus who declared this culture to be matriarchal thinks that the men went hunting only a few days a year in their Cabela’s blaze orange parkas.

Help me out here, Sunkie. Am I just not understanding archaeologists’ use of this term?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was born at Springer and raised till 5 years old at Gladstone-Farley.

[Jan_Sobieski]

ping

[ZULU]

The most notable aspect of the Trypillian culture was the periodic destruction of settlements, with each single-habitation site having a roughly 60 to 80 year lifetime....

Catfights

[wardaddy]

A few who push an agenda?

I have a hard time believing departments in major universities that focus on human cultural development from prehistoric forward are any different than the rest of academia

I could Google in minutes dozens of new studies funded solely to refute western civ notions from Pre 1960

In fact.....the term Western Civ...a prerequisite in my day is now considered offensive and outdated

Is this your employment...I notice its your thing here

Are there objective anthropologists.... I’m sure somewhere

But even when I was in college late 70s we had History of Man lecturers...even at right wing Ole Miss....that preached cultural relativism

If you find a study you deem objective please share...if you see something agenda driven....share that too and I’ll bitch about it

I don’t think academia has ever been as one sided as now personally

Classical Liberalism is daid

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Thank you, I will send that on to the Pastor that made me aware of the stone.

Why hasn’t Israel send a team of archeologist to study this I wonder.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

I am not but I will be.

Thanks

[ConservativeMind]

You aren’t “Mormon,” are you?

Mormons were already traipsing around for many decades by that point. They use the Bat Creek stone to “prove” their claims that “Jesus was here.”

Don’t believe ANYTHING based on assumptions that “no one could have been here/there” when it comes to Mormons.

[reasonisfaith]

Yes it does do that.

Funny part is they don’t explain how they know these things.

[hlmencken3]

Israeli archaeologists wouldn’t necessarily bring any more insight into such a find, and modern archaeology is very costly and litigious. Who would pay for it and why? It is very well-known in Biblical archaeology circles.

Longish article:

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/125339/the-mystery-stone

[gleeaikin]

I don’t think there is any doubt that some Amerindians ate one another. It is certainly true in quantity for the Aztecs. Apparently at some point within the hundred years prior to Montezuma, a prime minister proposed using warfare and captives for a plentiful meat supply wrapped up in religion and “Flowery Warfare.” Let us declare our neighbors our bread (tlaxcalli, the Nahuatl word for tortilla). When Cortez arrived on the scene, the neighboring Tlaxcallans were only too happy to go to war with him against the Aztecs, supplying at least 100,000 fighters who were tired of being used as tortillas. You didn’t really think that Cortez with his tiny little army did it all by himself, did you?

[gleeaikin]

I once saw a National Geographic piece about a 50 foot high village mound in Bulgaria(?) which covered 3 or 4 thousand years of occupation. Early pottery was colorful and creative, then about 3,000 BC it all became gray and very well formed, but no color or creativity. Knowing the woman probably did most of the pottery, at the time I asked myself, my gosh, what happened to the women here? Later I read that about that time, strongly patriarchal tribes conquered from East to West. While I don’t know how strongly matriarchal village life was earlier, it seemed as if all the life had gone out of the potters who thenceforth lived as competent, unhappy slaves and drudges. I’ll see if I can Google up some of this pottery to show.

[no-to-illegals]

Had never thought of or reasoned that one through, Gleeaikin, but think you have thought that one through and reasoned the conclusion out to a proper conclusion.