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Bronze Image With Gold Mask |
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Click here for more picture of artifacts from Sanxingdui Culture.
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Bronze Image With Gold Mask |
Sacred Tree |
Click here for more picture of artifacts from Sanxingdui Culture.
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that mask looks like Burt from Sesame Street. Hmmm....
"then inexplicably vanished, leaving no trace behind in the historical records."
I had a better understanding of this when I had a chance to volunteer in Mongolia for a project. In the rural towns were large soviet style apartments standing empty. When the infrastructure changed, when the Soviets left, there was no one to pay the bills for electricity and heat. You CAN't live in an apartment without those. So everyone moved out to the country and lived in tents. Land was free and the new wealth and living opportunity were cattle and horses.
UlanBatar (sp?) the capital city had more access to international help so the system there kept going. Prior to my being in the capital the electricity had been on only 25-50% of the time.
If the international community had not stepped in to keep things going there was no choice for the residents except to move out to the country. The cities and towns would have been immediately abandoned.
What would happen in the US if the USDA and Bank system closed down tomorrow?
Great post, thanks.
interesting
Squint your eyes while looking at the Bronze Image and you think you see a Mayan or an alien. The real TRUTH is OUT There.
It is now clear that Chinese culture had multiple origins and did not, as previous generations of historians confidently believed, follow a simple path from just one single source.Same fate awaits Replacement. ;')
It is a popular idea that the cradle of Chinese civilization is in the Yellow River valley about 1,000km northeast of Chengdu, and matured there before gradually spreading southward. If nothing else, this traditional concept of history is supported by ancient myths about the Yellow Emperor and other early rulers, held dear by many Chinese.Hey, the winners write the history books. That is, if they're smart they do. Like Egypt, China has cultivated the notion that the country has been unified since its beginning, now lost in dim antiquity.
The Sanxingdui culture, which blossomed from 5000BC to 3000BC, is characterized by the same radical strangeness as that unearthed at Jinsha.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
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There's a subculture within the professional history community (to which I belong) who reject the basically PC idea of "out of Africa," and that mankind developed in several places in the world simultaneously. Some say two, some three, I've even seen an argument for seven regional development centers.
Personally, I believe that East Asians and Caucasians evolved in Central/East Asia separate from any of the others, and Caucasians separated and migrated westward heaven knows when. More and more evidence is accumulating that this partial argument for the "multiple centers" argument is true, regardless of what the PC police want us to believe.
Egypt
Rome
Maya
Sanxingdui
Alien
Yoda
Incredible stuff, Tiger.
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