[blam]

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Remember that Cherchen Man (one of the 2000BC mummies found in China) had this spiral painted on his face.

Cherchen Man

[Adder]

“The houses were adjacent and no house was superior to another, which can be indicated as a sign of their egalitarian structure of society. They did not have a leader and they lived in peace.”

Oooo did they find a book telling them so?
Otherwise, its wishful bs.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Thanks for that graphic showing that motif. To all -- the roofs had holes which were the exits (as well as the chimneys) because they A) didn't have streets, other than across each other's roofs, and B) they were interested in their own security, as the site was on the obsidian trade route and wealthy.

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[bert]

The spiral is a sure indication of Ammonite worship.

[wildbill]

I absolutely love the drivel that some archeologists put out when trying to explain a site using their own biases and stereotypes.

“The houses were adjacent and no house was superior to another, which can be indicated as a sign of their egalitarian structure of society.”

Remember this song, deriding the culture of sameness:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the caves
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there’s hunters and farmers,
And spell-binding shamans,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

Or “They did not have a leader and they lived in peace.”

Then why did they need doors and bury their neighbors under the floor?

[JimSEA]

I am both very interested in the objective findings of this dig and skeptical of their interpretation. I just finished The Goddess & The Bull" by Michael Balter. The Archaeologist involved in the dig are a mix of Feminists, anti-capitalist or Marxist, multiculturalists and others who can be counted on to infuse their idealogical prejudices into their work. Hodder is the main current exponent of Post-processual Archeology which seeks to "move beyond the science and tell a story, give a voice to the ancestors." Of course they found evidence of a Marxist utopia -- what else?

[N. Theknow]

Spiral Wall Motifs Reveal Çatalhöyük Migration

Pinging the Çatalhöyük Ping List.

[BJClinton]

The houses were adjacent and no house was superior to another, which can be indicated as a sign of their egalitarian structure of society. They did not have a leader and they lived in peace.

Or the developer only had one blueprint to work with.

[john drake]

These schmucks make me puke. When European archeologists were working in Turkey on some of the finest Roman ruins comprised of summer homes, theatres, etc. that contained the finest mosaics ever discovered, the government of Turkey said they couldn’t wait for the excavation to be completed or the objects removed. They closed the project and flooded the entire valley as part of an electrohydratic dam system for the great future of Turkey. Needless to say, no one will ever see those Roman ruins at the bottom of a deep lake. So much for their love of archeology.