neolithic site:discovery.com
Posted on 09/25/2008 5:39:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Running until the end of October at the Palazzo della Cancelleria in the Vatican, the exhibition, "Cucuteni-Trypillia: A Great Civilization of Old Europe," introduces a mysterious Neolithic people who are now believed to have forged Europe's first civilization...
Archaeologists have named them "Cucuteni-Trypillians" after the villages of Cucuteni, near Lasi, Romania and Trypillia, near Kiev, Ukraine, where the first discoveries of this ancient civilization were made more than 100 years ago.
The excavated treasures -- fired clay statuettes and op art-like pottery dating from 5000 to 3000 B.C. -- immediately posed a riddle to archaeologists... "Despite recent extensive excavations, no cemetery has ever been found," Lacramioara Stratulat, director of the Moldova National Museum Complex of Iasi, told reporters at a news conference recently at the Vatican.
Before their culture mysteriously faded, the Cucuteni-Trypillians had organized into large settlements. Predating the Sumerians and Egyptian settlements, these were basically proto-cities with buildings often arranged in concentric circles... in what is now Romania, Ukraine and Moldova.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
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They were the genealogical forefathers of M.C. Escher no doubt.
“Before their culture mysteriously faded, the Cucuteni-Trypillians had organized into large settlements. Predating the Sumerians and Egyptian settlements, these were basically proto-cities with buildings often arranged in concentric circles...”
Proto-Yuppies.
Hope they have a nice short nickname!
How about “Kookoo Trip”?
....the abundant female statuettes are gracious and mask-free, with tattooed bodies and long feet.”
Damn, sounds like some Romanian and Ukrainian girls I know...!
“every some 60-80 years they would sacrifice whole cities by intentionally burning thousands of their houses. Then they would move to create another settlement.”
Hmmm. “Can’t we just get along?”
Sounds like one way to deal with the mortgage crisis......
Sounds like some prehistoric ex-cons with a foot fetish took a pottery class in prison.
You realize of course that comment could unleash a pile of Escher graphics (I hope).
I wonder who lint them the kiln?
Okay, then how about “Kooky Trip”?
"...Cucuteni, Trypillian..."
...25th century archaeologists could not decipher if this was the foot of Ernest Borgnine or Helen Thomas in the ruins of the New York Times.
Cute tryp. (rhymes with ripe)
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