Galilee Drought Uncovers Oldest Village In The World

Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 9-23-2001 | Dina Shiloh

[Focault's Pendulum]

What kind of creature would you suppose built the village, if not human?

My ex wife.

[Jhensy]

Thousands of items including huts, tools and fireplaces found at Ohalo, on the southwestern shore, give a unique insight into the semi-nomadic people who lived there towards the end of the early Stone Age.

Most interesting was the stone tablet saying: OHALO: POPULATION: 600. STROM THURMOND, MAYOR

[r9etb]

Presumably or a lot of subsidence(sp?).

I think it's probably a similar situation to what inundated the old villages under the Black Sea. Which is to say, heavy runoff from the mountains (maybe even the breaking of an ice dam) could have fed the Jordan river, and raised the Sea of Galilee to cover this spot.

[Jolly Rodgers]

My ex wife.

You married an older woman?

[Focault's Pendulum]

You married an older woman?

I could never get into her purse to check her I.D.
It must have been all those facelifts and plastic enhancement procedures. I suspected as much when her boobs started melting under the sunlamp.

[Jolly Rodgers]

I suspected as much when her boobs started melting under the sunlamp.

That would explain why she built her hut under the water in a place as hot as Galilee.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

For the record, archeologists found evidence in this world's oldest village of the world's oldest whorehouse proving again the world's oldest profession.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I would have much preferred a pillar of salt. Doesn't talk much and a readily available supply seasoning on hand.

[Balding_Eagle]

"The settlement, dating back 20,000 years, came to light in one of the worst droughts in recent years."

Finally, after 20,000 years, precipitation rates are normalizing. Ought to calm down the cries of the eco-terrorists!

BTW are the eco-terrorists on GWs list?

[blam]

"What is the age of the oldest village ever found? Is that the one in South America?"

Don't know the answer to that but, I can see already that we're headed to a controversy about what constitutes a 'village.' There are many archaeology 'sites' older than 20k years old. What is a 'village?'

[blam]

"Are you gonna drain your lakes?"

No. We know when they were built, 1952. Besides, they were almost dry until this year from the drought that we had down here for 3.5 years. (I did find some unusual things in the areas where I looked though.)

[aruanan]

Presumably or a lot of subsidence(sp?).

I'm thinking the latter since a lot of this entire region at one time was quite lush.

[breakem]

witty

[mathurine]

Probably a bunch of signs there saying "death to the USA"

[aruanan]

What's wrong with carbon dating ?

It assumes that production and decay of C14 are in equilibrium. They are not. The result is that the older an object actually is, its C-14 date will make it appear to be much older. Of course, that's assuming the rate of production has remained constant. The discrepancy between the rates of production and decay were at first just assumed to have been experimental error because it was previously assumed that they would have to have already been in equilibrium. As I recall, the difference was something between 10 and 20%, though it's been a while since I read the paper.

[aruanan]

GRATUITOUS: Be prepared for the wave of creationist [sic] who will soon be here to tell you the huts are only 15 years old.

[Straight Vermonter]

Ah, but my prediction came true!

[Gargantua]

Actually, it refers to the Earth's decaying magnetic field, and the fact that this points to an Earth roughly 10,000 years old.

Copy and paste this URL into your Address bar; I don't know how to post links:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/3317.asp

Scientists are just people, and they tend to discard as irrelevant any "test" results or "control anomalies" which do not comport with their pre-formed conclusions. In fact, if one has a hand in assembling the data, a "scientific" projection can take any curve you like.

[Ada Coddington]

Drier?

Shudda been. The ice age was still going strong in Europe and North America, locking up a great deal of fresh water in glaciers.