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1 posted on 04/06/2010 9:07:56 AM PDT by decimon

2 posted on 04/06/2010 9:08:53 AM PDT by decimon

I think it is accurate to say that the world as we know it began 6000 years ago.

3 posted on 04/06/2010 9:23:24 AM PDT by DManA

Uh, it’s motifs, not motives, college kids.

4 posted on 04/06/2010 9:51:19 AM PDT by Stalwart

Turkey, about 185 to 250 miles away. Those materials were smelted at Tell Zeidan to produce metal tools that represent the most advanced technology of the fifth millennium B.C. People must have transported the material on their backs, however, as Tell Zeidan flourished at a time before donkeys were domesticated.

Smell test flunked, look some more.

8 posted on 04/06/2010 4:28:57 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)

[note: FReeper CajunCow had a virus warning from the LiveScience site sometime last week, tipped me off, but as I use a Mac, I don’t know if there’s still a problem; hence, just the links to the nice graphic images are used below]

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This red stone seal with a deer carved into red stone was unearthed in the prehistoric town of Tell Zeidan. The stone is not native to the area, but the seal is similar to one found 185 miles to the east near Mosul in northern Iraq. Credit: Gil Stein, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

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The Tell Zeidan site is about 48 feet high at its tallest point and covers about 30 acres. It sits in an area of irrigated fields at the junction of the Euphrates and Balikh Rivers in what is now northern Syria. Credit: Gil Stein, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

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This seven-inch-tall female figurine is from the Ubaid period and is made of baked clay. Credit: Gil Stein, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

http://i.livescience.com/images/tell-zeidan-vase-100406-02.jpg

This strainer-spouted pitcher is from the Halaf period and dates from about 5400 B.C. It is painted and impressed in a pattern of connected ovals that is a common motif in the Halaf culture. Credit: Gil Stein, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

9 posted on 04/06/2010 5:37:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)

10 posted on 04/06/2010 5:51:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)

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