Archaeologists Discover 8,000-Year-Old House: 'Extraordinary'

Newsweek ^ | Published Oct 23, 2024, Updated Oct 25, 2024 | Aristos Georgiou

[sphinx]

Maybe they’re still under warranty?

[Vermont Lt]

As Graham Hancock suggests, “Advanced doesn’t necessarily look like us.”

I cannot imagine that “all of a sudden” humans became farmers and started writing….just 7,000 years ago.

It simply doesn’t make sense.

But, if we were so advanced we would make a lawn that rakes its own leaves.

[C210N]

Only get alarmed if they find an 8,000 year old house with a washer, dryer, & dishwasher ...

[Colt1851Navy]

Jenny Marrs is beautiful on the outside and even more on the inside, good people.

[dp0622]

Renovate! :) you’ll get a fortune!

[dp0622]

lol

[Colt1851Navy]

My wife’s house looks nearly this bad, but my wife and I have only been married for fifteen years, so I haven’t had time to fix it up yet.(See Pa Kettle)

[dp0622]

LOL the plumbing is covered for 10,000 years. It was a special :)

The comments here are hysterical.

[dp0622]

My only posts on this thread have pretty much been “LOL”

Add another :)

[Frank Drebin]

It’s actually in better shape than many of the homes in Democrat run blue cities.

[SunkenCiv]

The Egyptian “helicopter” is actually a dragonfly, for example.

[Jamestown1630]

I sometimes wonder if things were entirely built on what originally were fortuitous ‘accidents’ or accidental discoveries - Or if Knowledge is just ‘Out There’ all the time, waiting for something inside us to reach out.

I don’t think everything is just trial and error. (The original meaning of ‘genius’ was associated with the supernatural.)

[bwest]

I know. I was being flippant.

[Revel]

Party Pooper.

[Verginius Rufus]

Did they find any pig bones? Svinja is Serbian for "pig."

[stylin19a]

6500 B.C. ? funny

[GaryCrow]

Blackrock immediately bought it and turned it into a rental.

[cuban leaf]

;)

[SunkenCiv]

It would interesting. It’s not unheard of for placenames to get passed down, pronounced differently of course, and separated from their original meaning. OTOH, sometimes the older name is the same information in a different language. Mutton Island off County Clare in Ireland had a Gaelic name that means Isle of Sheep. :^)

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm not sure if pigs had been domesticated 8000 years ago.

The French word for "sheep" is mouton. It's one of several examples where the modern English word for the meat that is served on the table comes from French while the word for the living animal goes back to Anglo-Saxon English. After the Norman Conquest the peasants were speaking Middle English while their noble landlords were speaking French. (Veal/calf and beef/cow are other examples.)