Thanks BenLurkin. Looks like another climate change study, so, other shoe dropping caveat -- also, what constitutes civilization? The oldest structures show up as remnant post-holes dating back 800,000 years in eastern Asia. Using a standard similar to that suggested here for the Harappans shows a huge swath of the world had large settlements, building with mud brick and/or adobe-like methods going back at least 8000 years (Cyprus, pre-ceramic settlement, populated by colonists from the mainland) and of less durable materials at least as far back as 15,000 years (in the Nile Valley and elsewhere); a domesticated multi-row barley sample RC-dated to 14K ago (plus the wiggle-matching RC calibration, which will be older) dug up in Near East/Anatolia somewhere...earlier topic:
- Is the Harappan civilisation 2000 years older? [11/14/2012]
sidebars:
- Have the secrets of a lost civilisation finally been unearthed? [2015]
- Has Turkey found world's oldest temple? [2015]
- Signs of world's first pictograph found in Gobeklitepe [2015]
- Göbekli Tepe Excavator Klaus Schmidt Passes Away [2014]
- Gobekli Tepe Report [2014]
- World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star [2013]
- Gobekli Tepe Constellations [2013]
- Archaeologists discover 'finest ever' piece of Neolithic art...3,500BC (Scotland) [2013]
- Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: a new wonder of the ancient world (9,000 B.C. Neolithic site) [2013]
- Humans have been drinking beer for 11,500 years [2013]
- 'World's Oldest Temple' May Have Been Cosmopolitan Center [2012]
- Rewriting the dawn of civilization ( Was Göbekli Tepe the cradle of civilization? ) [2012]
- Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not temples at all [2011]
- Göbekli Tepe -- The Birth of Religion [2011]
- 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure [Gobekli Tepe] [2011]
- History in the Remaking [2010]
- Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden? [2009]
- Stone Age Temple May Be Birthplace of Civilization [2008]
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old ) [2008]
- Mysterious Neolithic People Made Optical Art [2008]
- Turkish Site A Neolithic 'Supernova' [2008]
- A Journey To 9,000 Years Ago (Çatalhöyük) [2008]
- Is this the world's oldest statue? [Anatolia, Gobekli Tepe] [2007]
- Did we plough up the Garden of Eden? [2006]
- Sanliurfa To Shed More Light On History Of Civilization [2006]
- German Paper Reports World's Oldest Temple Is In Sanliurfa (Turkey- 10,000BC) [2006]
- Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life [2005]
- Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia -- Home To First Civilization On Earth [2003]