Posted on 01/18/2018 2:45:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
More than 4,000 years ago builders carved out the entire surface of a naturally pyramid-shaped promontory on the Greek island of Keros. They shaped it into terraces covered with 1,000 tonnes of specially imported gleaming white stone to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid rising from the Aegean: the most imposing manmade structure in all the Cyclades archipelago...
Archaeologists from three different countries involved in an ongoing excavation have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels -- constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete -- and traces of sophisticated metalworking...
Earlier excavations by the team from the University of Cambridge, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the Cyprus Institute have uncovered thousands of marble Cycladic sculptures -- the stylised human figures which inspired western artists, including Pablo Picasso -- and which appear to have been deliberately broken elsewhere and brought to the island for burial.
Maintaining as well as constructing the settlement would have taken a huge communal effort. The now-deserted slopes of Dhaskalio were once covered with structures and buildings, suggesting that 4,500 years ago it was one of the most densely populated parts of the islands -- despite the fact that it could not have been self-sufficient, meaning that most food, like the stone and the ore for metal working, had to be imported...
Excavated soil reveals food traces including pulses, grapes, olives, figs and almonds, and cereals, including wheat and barley. Evi Margaritis of the Cyprus Institute said: "Much of this food was imported: in the light of this evidence we need to reconsider what we know about existing networks to include food exchange."
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea, was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros. Photograph: Michael Boyd
The entrance staircase from above: the sea level was much lower in the early bronze age Photograph: Michael Boyd
A researcher holds a mould for making a spearhead from molten copper. Photograph: Michael Boyd
Thanks Texas Fossil. That's the most interesting Greek thing in a while.
Good find.
But they are supposed to be primitives compared to us Walmart moderns.
It was a temple complex like Malta. They were all over the Islands of the Medertainiumn during the Bronze age. If they do enough digging they might find the chambers where they kept the bones of the children they sacrificed to their blood gods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta
Ooh, that worked! Nice! Thanks blam.
"History is seen as a progression from stupid cave men to smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste." -- John Anthony West
Antediluvian bump!
Wait a sec...global warming? Melting icecaps?
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The entrance staircase from above: the sea level was much lower in the early bronze age Photograph: Michael Boyd
Well there’s one difference between them and Aus Pelham :)
Unless you count abortion :(
WE HAVE STRIPED TOOTHPASTE?!?!?!
;’) And striped dental floss. They’re still working on striped waterpik streams.
lol. We ARE the superior civilization!
Wouldn’t an alien’s head have to be much more enormous? Or is their neuron count higher but denser?
I know cats have smaller brains but more neurons than dogs.
Somebody go find an alien and check. :)
The Aegean and Greece itself (and some other adjacent landmasses) is slowly dropping in elevation, bunch of different towns, buildings, cemeteries are in the same situation.
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