Archeological Findings back to 10th Millennium B.C. [ Syria ]

DayPress | 11/11/2010 | SANA

[SunkenCiv]

According to the head of the national archeological mission working at the site Thayer Yerta, carved panels and archeological findings dating back to the beginning of the agricultural revolution in the 10th Millennium B.C. were unearthed at Tel al-Abar 3 site, left bank of the Euphrates River, the panels are made from chlorites (green precious stone) with different engravings and figures.

He added that "one of these panels portrayed an eagle with wings spread wide and snake-form sculptures on the two sides. Another panel has an abstract sculpture of three eagle sculptures spreading their wings behind which the sun appears."

A building with decorated terrace was also uncovered inside a hole at a depth of 130 cm and a diameter of 750 cm.

The findings help shed light on two major practices of ancient people which are farming and fishing. They also provided us with a hint about the way of life those people used to have as well as their social and economic life.

A chlorite vessel of a bull was among the findings as well as a vessel for a man without head in squat position and hands spread wide holding a spear in his right hand.

A stone panel of two parts was discovered. There is a spike sculpture surrounded by two hands on the upper part while the lower contains a sculpture for a bull head with a snake beside it.

Yerta said that the sculptures on the panel indicate the first agricultural activity for inhabitants lived on the banks of Euphrates River.

[SunkenCiv]

The one shown must be Aceramic (also called Preceramic), iow, clayware (in the Nile Delta, they had "siltware", it's very fine work in that case, and predynastic in date); the ceramic era began about 8000 years ago, 6000 BC. Stuff older than that has been found, deliberately baked, but oddly enough, those were ceremonial items (including a few thousand all in one spot in a site in Europe). From a James Mellaart title (published in 1965) a photo of a plate, presumably used to serve or eat food, not too bad lookin', and in good condition for 7000 years old.

[KamperKen]

By any chance did you read Graham Hancock’s book “Underworld”? He addresses the inundation of very early civilization coastal sites at the end of the last great ice age.

[SatinDoll]

Yes. But I also looked into other sources such as marine archeology.

Marine archeology is in its infancy. The British are searching close to home, exploring areas under the Channel. For years and years fishermen have been hauling in, not only fish, but the bones of long extinct animals, mostly wooly mammoth. The discovery of an ancient village off the east coast of Cornwall has been interesting for what it reveals of neolithic people living in that area.

The discovery on the Black Sea floor of ruins from 7500 bc has been a revelation for many, for it happened at a time when the sea level then appears to have been 15 to 20 feet higher that today’s sea level. This flood into what had been known at the time as the Euxine Lake, soon to be known as the New Euxine Sea by the ancient peoples around the Mediterranean, set into motion an exodus of people rippling outward in many directions. The ‘Old’ Euxine Lake, in now appears, was the original home of the ancient Celts.