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To: SunkenCiv

It’s super exciting, and since they’ve only started digging in about 5% of the area, there’ll be a ton of awesome finds over the next 50 years.


9 posted on 11/30/2025 9:42:31 AM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

I’m glad one of the described sites is getting excav’d by some Japanese, not the tourist-center-building, bring-up-the-bulldozers Turks.


14 posted on 11/30/2025 10:18:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: AdmSmith

Looks to me like 2 different peoples used the sites - those that built with large stones/slabs, and those who built with the much cruder small stones of the enclosures, who also used old worn out statues from the slab builders for building material - a common practice later on.

The open mouthed head is reminiscent of 19th-early 20th century fairs that had painted statuary clowns with similar open mouths - toss a ball at it, and if you get it in the mouth, you get a prize.


16 posted on 11/30/2025 10:41:25 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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