Posted on 07/08/2024 10:32:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
I've never bought into the notion that this site was built, used for rituals, then systematically covered back up until the following year, as if it were a prehistoric Burning Man festival.
The rest of the Hunter Gatherer keyword, sorted:
Thanks! Archaeology works for stories I've missed as well.
The fact that they filled in and covered up the site tells me drastic social changes were occurring. I have no idea what kind.
Some topics out of the FRchives, just added to the keyword. These emerged from the chrono search on FR, and yet, they happen to be in alpha order!
The agricultural Karens outlawed the mens’ yearly hunting trips and get togethers for leaving chores undone and taxes unpaid.
I would guard my mancave with my life!
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I just watched a show on it last night.
Would love to go there.
5,000-year-old ceremonial temple discovered beneath sand dune in Peru
By Jennifer Nalewicki published 21 hours ago
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5000-year-old-ceremonial-temple-discovered-beneath-sand-dune-in-peru
It’s not a fact, it’s an apparently unfounded speculation.
“...These include vessels large enough to make 43 gallons of beer or porridge...the absence of remains of domestic grain at Göbekli Tepe isn’t conclusive proof that people there weren’t planting crops.”
Was grain cultivated on-site even necessary for beer or for flour? Women might harvest wild and plentiful Einkorn, with a 30K year history, or Emmer, which required pounding with mortar and pestle to release the seeds. Water and a sugar source like honey and yeast off the surface of dates, and there’s your beer.
The best explanation I’ve heard was that it was memorial/warning of a cataclysm that wiped out a large portion of mankind. Graham Hancock has a pretty good explanation of i that it was likely warning people to watch out for comet/meteor strike during certain times of the year.
Yeah, because they wouldn't be building shelters for themselves, even though they're smart enough to allegedly have some kind of precocious astronomical knowledge. GH is a buffoon.
the site is much larger than originally thought. The same kind of thing happened in the 1950s-60s with the Catal Huyuk site -- the digging just happened to encounter a shrine with various human and animal skulls. The site was occupied for over 1400 years and abandoned over 7500 years ago.
Multirow barley was developed at least 14K years ago, in Anatolia, and as you noted, other grain crops have been available for a long while.
The fact is, I've never seen much value to this artificial, modern division of hunter-gatherer vs farming. :^)
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