Figure 1. The location of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria.
Posted on 10/19/2010 6:07:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Tell Sabi Abyad (northern Syria), a key-site for the Late Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia (Figures 1 & 2), was continuously inhabited during the seventh millennium, spanning the 8.2ka event. Many cultural and economic transitions are seen in the archaeological record around 6200 BC. The site as a whole remains occupied, but the village shifts from west to east. The village layout shows new architectural forms (Figure 3). Key changes in animal husbandry occurred, such as the exploitation of sheep and goats for milk and fibre production and the abandonment of pig husbandry in favour of cattle. The number of spindle whorls used for textile production increases substantially. The community transforms from autonomous households to a diversified population of both mobile pastoralists and sedentary agriculturalists. Material culture shows more advanced ceramic storage containers and a new form of cooking ware. There were significant changes in the symbolic role of ceramics too: the start of decoration with abstract, geometric motifs. Other social changes include stamp-seal development in order to control access to goods and denote personal property. There is a technical disinvestment in stone tool production. The circulation of stone axes diminishes markedly (Akkermans et al. 2006).
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Figure 1. The location of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria.
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Human civilization began.
And that was bad enough until that mohamud freak came along and told them "We must exploit the leetle girls too"
Yup. The entirety of human civilization, leading to modern science, agriculture, engineering, space exploration, and free societies with republican governments, is all confined to the last (and current) interglacial warming. No wonder the Left hates warming!
Bookmarked!
My pleasure!
When the men of a subculture find goats that attractive, it’s no wonder they cover the women, no matter how unattractive they are.
Archaeologists like solid facts and objects. Marine Archeology is changing that because you can’t physically excavate the sea floor with the same precision as dry land. Yet human artifacts are most certainly there, have been discovered and photographed.
In some areas of the world, sea level rose 300’ to 400’ between 15,000 BCE and 8500 BCE. Far off the southwestern and southeastern shores of India, there exist submerged cities made of stone, complete with pyramids. The same exists submerged off the coastlines of the Maldives Archipelago.
That civilization would advance so quickly since the ice sheets retreated and in such a short period of time beggars the question: why didn’t it happen earlier? It did happen in the past, and was catastrophically destroyed by floods.
When we consider that known writing systems appeared around 5000 years ago, there’s plenty of room during the past to have seen literate civilization come and go multiple times.
They lived inside a red X surrounded by a box? :-))
That's really intriguing idea.
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