Thanks BenLurkin.
Posted on 08/24/2020 11:06:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The mustatils are giant stone monuments that are about 7,000-year- old. The Arabic name ‘mustatils,’ means rectangle.
These vast structures made of stone piled into rectangles, are some of the oldest large-scale structures in the world.
Mustalis were previously recognized from satellite imagery and as they were often covered by younger structures, it had been speculated that they might be ancient, perhaps extending back to the Neolithic.
Recent studies reveal new, interesting information that may shed light on the purpose of these massive stone monuments.
Dr. Huw Groucutt from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Ecology, the Science of Human History, and Biogeochemistry conducted together with an international team a thorough study of these enigmatic stone structures.
At one mustalis, Dr. Huw Groucutt and his team found animal bones, which included both wild animals and possibly domestic cattle, although it is possible that the latter are wild auroch. At another mustatil the team found a rock with a geometric pattern painted onto it.
Northern Arabia 7,000 years ago was very different to today. Rainfall was higher, so much of the area was covered by grassland and there were scattered lakes. Pastoralist groups thrived in this environment, yet it would have been a challenging place to live, with droughts a constant risk.
They may not be the oldest buildings in the world, but they are on a uniquely large scale for this early period, more than two thousand years before pyramids began to be constructed in Egypt.
Arabia, many ancient structures have received little attention, and therefore, megalithic structures of the region remain largely unknown. Recently, scientists discovered a 35-meter-long stone platform dated to 6,000 B.C. Such intriguing archaeological discoveries give us reason to say the Arabian Desert still holds many ancient secrets waiting to be revealed
(Excerpt) Read more at ancientpages.com ...
Arabia, many ancient structures have received little attention *** because they are in areas that are off limits to non-muslims or on military reservations. Archeological sites, that have not been deliberately bulldozed and which may precede Mohammad, are off limits to anyone.
This may be changing under the new regime
Gobekli Tepi in Turkey precedes Sumer by almost 10,000 years
[picture] Pretty clever, and everything’s clean and a nice common yard with pond and flowers. Some engineering went into the stands and stairs.
what kind of chain show cut that down?!?!
Ah ... raised garden beds ?
If the soil inside is screened of rock better than the soil outside your AG idea seems correct.
Wonder how they align with the sun and moon as other AG considerations
I have heard that turkey gaggle before.
And that was in the days of darpanet!
Now, there IS a real picture of a very old cypress stump that is quite large, but since it is among my offline picture folder, you’ll have to look for it.
Could be, but this is the desert.
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It’s a desert now, but 6,000 years ago what is now the Sahara Desert was green.
https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populated.html
stupid autocorrect - chain saw
“Could be, but this is the desert.”
Not back then.
My guess is a combination sheep pen/brothel.
from the article : Northern Arabia 7,000 years ago was very different to today. Rainfall was higher, so much of the area was covered by grassland and there were scattered lakes.
A larger farther out picture would help. I flew all over Iraq during the 2nd war and it has some interesting geography. Like where the Tigris and Euphrates come together before the Persion Gulf is all wetlands... The people there scoot around on little boats.
Yes. My Kurd friends in N. Syria told me that the garden of Eden was in that general area where the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers merge (think it is near Raqqa). Noah’s Ark, they say, is in the mountains near there.
And the last villages where they still speak in the dialect of Aramaic that Jesus spoke are near there.
Some of the best (if not The Best) olives in the world grow in Efrin (Afrin) which was stolen by Turkey and ISIS. Fruit trees of many kinds grow there, but it is being hurt by Turkey bottling up the rivers to prevent them coming into N. Syria.
I am skeptical of archeologists who say they know what the climate was 7,000 years ago. A the best it would be a wild a$$ guess. Like the computer predictions for the Covid19 virus. A lot of BS.
Thanks BenLurkin.
It was an art exhibition. I hope the wine was good.
pretty much the same thing in that part of the world.
“My first guess was farm plots. That long ago, might have been enough water/rain in the area to make it work.”
Not in the Nefud. The Sahara may have been hospitable around the neolithic era, but the Arabian desert has been inhospitable for much much longer.
To steal a line from Ghostbusters:
“Your right Ray, no human would ever stack rocks like that...”
Quanats shows to be Catalan.
Qanat is “channel” in Arabic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
The Qanats of Iran
http://users.bart.nl/~leenders/txt/qanats.html
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