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Stunning carvings of human figures and heads are uncovered at Karahantepe - one of the important settlements of the Neolithic period - revealing the artistic skills of people who lived in Turkey 11,000 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | UPDATED: 12:53 EDT, 1 October 2021 | By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 10/04/2021 5:06:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 10/04/2021 11:05:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Carvings of human figures and heads have been uncovered at an important settlement of Neolithic period

The discovery at Karahantepe in Turkey reveals the artistic skills of people who lived there 11,000 years ago

So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found at the excavation site

Digging at the site first began in 2019 and has also led to the discovery of a building with a diameter of 75ft

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Stunning carvings of human figures and heads have been uncovered at what is considered to be one of the most important settlements of the Neolithic period.

The discovery at Karahantepe, in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, reveals the artistic skills of people who lived there 11,000 years ago.

So far more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions have been found, along with a number of three-dimensional human sculptures.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: ggg; gobeklitepe; godsgravesglyphs; karahantepe; mesolithic; neolithic; sanliurfa; turkey
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To: SamuraiScot

The descendants of Turkmen from Central Asia who run the Anatolian peninsula now have no connection to the Neolithic geniuses who made this stuff. What will the Turks do? Destroy it? Probably sell it for the greater glory of money. (But please to be making sure there are no graven images on the bills.)
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This stuff is going to be too much of a tourist attraction as the narrative about the first civilizations after the younger dryas becomes more well-known and widespread.


21 posted on 10/04/2021 9:16:45 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: JeanLM

Since the neolithic revolution spread to Europe by way of farmers moving out from Anatolia—it’s likely this kind of monumental architecture is what provided the cultural impetus for the move. As well, it suggests the neolithic revolution quickly caused overpopulation—and thus the need to move out.


22 posted on 10/04/2021 9:20:18 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Flick Lives

I have read variously that those bird figures are death cult figures and or astrological signs.

Those bird figures are not in any of the cave paintings around the world that predate the younger dryas.

On the other handbags in the pictures are a motif that shows 5-6 thousand years later among the Sumerians from 4000 bc onwards and the other Mesopotamian cultures up until about 500 bc.


23 posted on 10/04/2021 9:26:54 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Flick Lives

# Watched an interesting YouTube video awhile back which compared carvings on the *back* of the Easter Island statues (I didn’t even know there were carvings on the back!) with the carvings at gobekli tepe.

That’s nothing. I didn’t realize they had full bodies until just a few years ago.


24 posted on 10/04/2021 9:27:55 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Red Badger.

25 posted on 10/04/2021 9:45:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fascinating!!

Thanks, SC!

‘Face

;o]


26 posted on 10/04/2021 9:53:31 AM PDT by Monkey Face (When the power of love is greater than the love of power there will be peace. UnitedMethodistChurch )
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To: Alas Babylon!
Remarkable resemblance


27 posted on 10/04/2021 9:57:21 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden takes the "em" out of empathetic)
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To: ckilmer

On the other handbags in the pictures are a motif that shows 5-6 thousand years later among the Sumerians from 4000 bc onwards and the other Mesopotamian cultures up until about 500 bc.

Yeah, that “handbag” or “purse” icon is a recurring theme in a lot of cultures. What does it represent? Why is it being carried? One of those antiquities that at the time it was made, everyone knew what it meant, so no explanation is provided. Now it’s a mystery.


28 posted on 10/04/2021 10:00:07 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: PIF
"hey say the site is older than Gobekli, but nowhere did I see an actual date attesting to that. You have one?"

No. I was surprised to see that too.

29 posted on 10/04/2021 10:14:36 AM PDT by blam
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To: Monkey Face
My pleasure. I can ping better than anyone I know!

30 posted on 10/04/2021 10:51:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Kinda, sorta, brings to mind the giant carved heads of the Olmecs.


31 posted on 10/04/2021 10:55:06 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: COBOL2Java
Remarkable resemblance

It does look like it could be their love child...

32 posted on 10/04/2021 10:56:47 AM PDT by null and void (As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
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To: Grimmy
Pharma companies that make OTC headache relief should shape them like the Olmec heads. They'd make themselves look all diversey and wokey.

33 posted on 10/04/2021 11:01:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
It is becoming obvious that those Neolithic hunter-gatherers had a way too much time on their hands - in order to find the time to build two mammoth mega stone sites. It appears that many of them must have been receiving government support benefits such as pre-trapped animals and pre-gathered berries and such, as well as subsidzed wigwams and/or lean-to's, plus perhaps travel expenses. No evidence yet of pawn shops or thrift stores.


34 posted on 10/04/2021 12:28:29 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Beer hadn’t been invented yet.........................


35 posted on 10/04/2021 12:31:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Flick Lives

I have read somewhere that the “purse” was actually a water bucket. Because the neolithic revolution did not occur in places where there was lots of water all year long.


36 posted on 10/04/2021 12:33:02 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Bob Ireland
:^)

37 posted on 10/04/2021 12:51:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ckilmer

So you think the people who built this were already advanced and farming 11,000 years ago? Not any evidence of domesticated cereal grains or irrigation back then. These people worshiped animals and were probably still master hunters of big game, but their social organization must have been much more advanced than small bands to complete this activity.

Then the big game ran out. The site was abandoned and covered for a thousand years.


38 posted on 10/04/2021 1:34:27 PM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proved melanin is just enough to win elections Trump proves being good is not enough..)
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To: Red Badger
***Beer hadn’t been invented yet... ***

That must be it. 🤷‍♂️
They must be resting between erecting carved 20 ton stones...

39 posted on 10/04/2021 3:08:37 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: ckilmer
I'm guessing seeds, or pollen:

No matter the dating, they all had eat...

40 posted on 10/04/2021 7:24:12 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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