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Posted on 08/03/2006 5:49:23 PM PDT by blam
Spy pics reveal ancient settlements
August 03, 2006 06:51pm
AUSTRALIAN researchers studying declassified spy satellite images have found widespread remains of ancient human settlements dating back 130,000 years in Syria.
The photographs were taken by United States military surveillance satellites operating under the CIA and defence-led Corona program in the late 1960s. The team of researchers travelled to the Euphrates River Valley in April and June and searched sites they had painstakingly identified using the images, which were only declassified in the late 1990s.
Group leader Mandy Mottram, a PhD student at the Australian National University's School of Archaeology and Anthropology, said the evidence of human life found in the area included a hilltop Byzantine basilica, a 24 hectare fortified town dating to the Early Bronze Age, Early Islamic pottery factories and a hilltop complex of megalithic tombs.
Ms Mottram said the researchers' trained eyes could spot small changes in the landscape, such as a different soil colour, that could indicate a former human settlement.
The images are particularly valuable because they show the landscape prior to its present rapid agricultural development.
"It's the guide for us to go out and have a look in that specific area," she said.
"It's been actually really brilliantly helpful for us. We've had a really, really high strike rate, I would say about 95 per cent."
Some of the artefacts found could dramatically change the way historians think of the area's early inhabitants, Ms Mottram said.
For example, contrary to a common belief that rural civilisations were experiencing economic and social decline from the mid-6th century, the team found evidence of widespread prosperity including many settlements and large quantities of pottery.
The researchers hope to establish the first complete record of human occupation in the area, beginning with the arrival from Africa of early human groups up to one million years ago.
They have already found tools from the Middle Palaeolithic period that are between 130,000 and 40,000 years old, and could have been made by either Neanderthals or early modern humans, as well as a few Acheulian tools that could date back several hundred thousand years.
Ms Mottram said the group was still analysing images of the items and structures they found and hoped to return to Syria next April if they secured funding.
You're one of those bohunks I mentioned: Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ (read it and learn something).
Getting your evolution information from creationist sites is like getting your conservative information from Michael Moore.
And you prove the case even more, the godless liberal can never actual answer the issue, but resorts to namecalling.
1. Assuming the only place people get any information is from websites shows your own perspective, not that of the scientific world within which I study.
2. Slandering reputable websites which DO expose the pseudo-science of Darwinianism is wrong, but typically godless liberal behavior.
3. Trying to associate yourself as a conservative on this issue by name association/name refutation is a fallacy and lying. You merely deflect the real issue:
There is NO evidence for species transitioning into different species. Evolution has been disproven.
God says when we sin, it is against HIM. You are in direct oppostion to God when you persist in lying and slander.
The greater scientific studies we have now show evidence for design, not organs evolving into other organs. The depth at which we can now look even within the individual cell, shows far more complexity than we ever thought possible.
If the environment was rich enough in resources, they wouldn't have needed agriculture.
One of the advantages early humans had in the Middle East was wild grain in sufficient quantities to harvest without planting.
There are a couple of theories on this, one that humans developed an early taste for beer, and another that they really did plant these wild grains only just scattering sort of like you scatter grass seed on your lawn.
Think about it. If you gather seed, and store it, if it gets wet it will sprout. If it gets very wet, it will ferment.
So it's easy to imagine that a cache of wild grain got wet, sprouted, and some genius figured that if you put the seeds on the ground you'll get more grain.
Another genius figured out that if you put a lot of water on grain in a hole in the rock, it will ferment and you can get high.
We know this happened in the Middle East, we just don't know exactly when.
Again the godless liberal claim that man was so stupid back then...
Instead, Scripture says he was so brilliant, he actually named everything, from the animals to the plants, which is quite a feat if you look at a biology or agriculture textbook index.
Why the persistent claim that early man had less than current brain power? Because if you admit that they were like us, you are by inference admitting that part of Scripture is true, and by inference if you admit it's God's word, then you should be following it, but you aren't, so it's easier just to shut Him out entirely, and lie.
Christians understand the thinking, because we too are sinful humans. The distinction is, we now have a new nature, and want truth, and can see it, when you can't.
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Note: this topic is from . Thanks blam.
They have already found tools from the Middle Palaeolithic period that are between 130,000 and 40,000 years old, and could have been made by either Neanderthals or early modern humans, as well as a few Acheulian tools that could date back several hundred thousand years.
Real prophets climb mountains to be closer to God.
They don’t crawl into holes to listen to the hissings of The Serpent.
Many will worship Colossus and Guardian.
Even now, people have unconditional faith in the models that come out of computers. *cough* Fauci *cough*
I really want to see this article. But the link goes to the general courier home page that does not have the article, or it has been removed from the courier.
Check this one out
I think you're denigrating Neanderthals. Shame on you! Do you know any Neanderthals? Have you met any Neanderthals? How dare you!
/S I think the Neanderthals were not as bad as modern humans, or there would be more of them left than some genes and a bunch of cave sites and such. They were either not as warlike as we are, or they didn't reproduce as well. Maybe both. Just remember! Humans are no damn good!
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