Interesting Archaeological Artefacts

[kadman]

I am prepared to bet that a lot would say they know the law in Ireland, about metal detecting, but in reality they would probably be wrong.

[kadman]

Do you need a license for a metal detector ???
Is it illegal to own one ???

[isha]

Love these kind of videos

[isha]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180973801/

Great stuff

[isha]

More on all the different kinds of humans. It blows my mind that homo sapiens has been around for such an incredibly short period of time.

[isha]

A controversial but very exciting artefact. The Venus of Tan Tan. Found in Morocco. 6 cm tall quartzite . Amazingly the stratigraphy it was found in would put it at 300,000 - 500,000 years old which would mean it was an artefact of homo erectus, a earlier form of human.

The suggestion is that the pebble was naturally formed in the shape it is but that human hand emphasised the folds to bring out the anthropomorphic appearance. Some parts of the pebble look to have been polished. There's another ancient Venus, from Berekhat Ram, so that gives some credence to the possibility of ancient hominids having an aesthetic perception and a culture of symbolic meaning. Time and digging will tell more.

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[isha]

I know this video is not about archaeology but rather paleontology and anthropology and evolution but it fits with a theme of the past
I can't get enough of hearing about this stuff, and this kind of summary is great for contextualising more specific information.
The science is always evolving on this stuff too - there are very much murky eras.
It's fascinating and sobering how recently we have arrived.
This doesn't go into hominin species much, rather it's about the broader evolution of mammals and then from there, primates and our species.

Ps his voice isn't great. Get over it

[isha]

Awesome
Near Gobekli Tepe, 11500 years old. Very recent discovery

A parallel excavation at Karahantepe yielded another monumental discovery - a 2.3-meter-high human statue, intricately designed and rooted to the ground on a bench. The figure's realistic facial expressions and detailed anatomy, emphasizing the ribs, spine, and shoulder bones, mark it as a potential masterpiece of prehistoric art.

https://arkeonews.net/new-discoveries-i ... rahantepe/

[Apelles]

Awesome
Near Gobekli Tepe, 11500 years old. Very recent discovery









https://arkeonews.net/new-discoveries-i ... rahantepe/

Not sure whether or not if its the Turkish government that are responsible isha, but it appears someone has already whipped off his knob . . seemingly an act of iconoclasm.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-di ... pe.770174/

[isha]

Seriously? This statue!?

[isha]

https://www.gercekgundem.com/guncel/kaz ... -mi-437402

If you select English this article sort of suggests that there may have been censorship of the image, but also that the statue was found in pieces. So reading between the translation I'm thinking they removed the phallus for official Turkish media maybe?

The statue with the man holding his penis mirrors other ancient statues found in that wider part of the globe. Though none as old so far

[isha]

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Sorry, wrong. Urfa man is about the same age.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man

[Apelles]

https://www.gercekgundem.com/guncel/kaz ... -mi-437402

If you select English this article sort of suggests that there may have been censorship of the image, but also that the statue was found in pieces. So reading between the translation I'm thinking they removed the phallus for official Turkish media maybe?

The statue with the man holding his penis mirrors other ancient statues found in that wider part of the globe. Though none as old so far

It's fascinating to ponder what the mindset of the people who originally created those chambers and all the stone carvings in that region was.
I'd love to know why they had such a focus on creating that much phallic imagery?
I haven't yet seen any feminine representations from that region of Turkey also from that same period, though there has to be somewhere, it does seem to have been be a very male dominated environment . . Massive phallic shaped columns and lots of six fingered fellas holding their mickey's.

[Norman Breaks]

Wild boar statue unearthed at Gobekli Tepe

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/painte ... 12337.html

[isha]

Ken Williams, photographer, reports on some dreadful vandalism at Carrowkeel. Damn thugs who think they are pagans. I have to not say how I would deal with them. Carrowkeel is one of our best sites - a really special place. The people who did this have no brains.

[Apelles]

Some big claims are being proposed about the possible age and building techniques used in the construction of the Gunung Padang pyramid.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... indonesia/

[isha]

Graham Hancock at least will be pleased though I imagine most archaeologists will strongly resist this theory. And rightly so. The burden of proof is heavy.

One of the main reasons I would love to time travel to the future would be to learn what archaeologists and paleontologists will learn over the next few hundred years. I'd say it would blow our minds.

[6234567]

The Guennol Lioness.

From Wikipedia:

The Guennol Lioness is a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian statue allegedly found near Baghdad, Iraq.
It is an Elamite figure believed to have been created circa 3000–2800 B.C.
The limestone sculpture measures just over 8 cm (3.25 in) tall.
Depicting a muscular anthropomorphic leonine-human.


Its historical significance is that it is thought to have been created at approximately the same time as the first known use of the wheel, the development of cuneiform writing, and the emergence of the first cities.