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Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not temples at all
University of Chicago Press Journals ^
| October 6, 2011
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Posted on 10/07/2011 2:07:06 PM PDT by decimon
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To: muawiyah
Ok, but I don’t see where you are going with that. There is archeological evidence for ritual sites with a steady population even among generally nomadic groups.
Like I said, I haven’t read the reports on this, but I do have a background in Archeology and it wouldn’t be impossible for it to be both.
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10/07/2011 7:44:45 PM PDT
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reaganaut
(Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see".)
To: reaganaut
12,000 year old buildings are really rare!
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posted on
10/07/2011 7:46:44 PM PDT
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muawiyah
To: DManA
I remember years and years ago, maybe in Readers Digest, an article written from the point of view of far future archeologist explaining what common 20th century objects meant. For instance a parking meeter was a shrine to a god that people made sacrifices of coins to.It might have been the same article, but I remember when they mentioned how horrified the archeologists would be when they excavated a church basement and found all the cooking equipment used for bazaars, figuring that some kind of cannibal sacrifice was performed there.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:13:38 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: muawiyah
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:12:03 PM PDT
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reaganaut
(Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see".)
To: decimon
Hey let’s face it, they just don’t know.
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10/08/2011 1:16:44 AM PDT
by
Bellflower
(Judas Iscariot, first democrat, robber, held the money bag, claimed to care for poor: John 12:4-6)
Just an update.
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01/10/2014 12:42:18 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Bellflower
You know the accounts of Solomon building all those places for his foreign wives to burn incense and sacrifice to their gods?
I’m thinking day spas and shopping malls...
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01/10/2014 12:53:03 AM PST
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Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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