[blam]

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[Red Badger]

Harvard University researcher Jason Ur? Is he a Chaldean?..........

[wizr]

“...the urban site of Tell Brak in north-eastern Syria appears to have emerged as several nearby settlements melded together,”

Kind of like the Los Angeles megalopolis, or SoCal, as we call it.

[wildbill]

So urban sprawl has been around for thousands of years. Who knew?

[Popocatapetl]

Archaeological sites should always be evaluated by non-Archaeologists before ready conclusions are drawn, but they seldom are. That is, once a site has been excavated and reconstructed based on known ruin materials, “guests” should be brought in to make their own hypotheses known, based on their expertise.

For example, I visited a site that with even a brief inspection I took to be a thousand year old fortress, and a well designed one, looking through my military trained eyes. To me, it had been carefully crafted as a fortification, to include its basic location, and it would have been easy to defend and very hard to attack, or even approach without detection, even at night. Even a small group could hold off a much larger one from that place.

So I asked a curator about the enemies of the people who lived there. He assured me that they had no enemies, that they were a peaceful people, and that there was no evidence of any conflict at all. Uh-huh. My next question was about any military experience he had. He had none.

But despite my describing to him that good dozen military reasons for that fortification being right there and being constructed the way it had been, he held to his invested theory.

I’m sure his theory was an interesting one, but I’ve yet to see people build a serious fortification just for the sheer joy of doing so anywhere else in the world.

From that point, I’ve been suspicious about conclusions reached on scant evidence in archeology, such as that the Mayans were peace-loving children of nature.

[SunkenCiv]

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[mikrofon]

Brick o' Brak?

[SunkenCiv]

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