They had some crazy awesome masonry skills as well. Not much is known about them, but by the looks of their statues, they don’t necessarily “look” like they were from around there.
Finally get to see some video of Karahan Tepe. Didn’t those stupid cavemen know that they were supposed to be dumb hunters and gathers just figuring out how to grow crops? lol
I was a prehistoric archaeologist for about 10 years. Specialty–the Middle Stone Age of Western Europe. I have worked on Middle Paleolithic sites in southern France, Neolithic sites in Denmark and Holland, Mesolithic sites in Belgium and France. I have never heard about chasing mammoths off a cliff. And if I did, I would think that was absurd. Not from anybody in the profession. I’ve heard of bison kills in the American West. Not my specialty, but I’ve seen the accounts of excavations. I’m wondering what all this is about.
Scientists have found plenty of evidence about how Neanderthals hunted. Firstly they hunted in groups. Piles of mammoth bones at the foot of ancient cliffs tell us that a popular method was to chase groups/herds of mammoth off the edge of a cliff. The dead and dying animals would be finished off and butchered where they fell. Another method was to chase a group into a boggy swamp. The animals would exhaust themselves trying to escape and the hunters would swoop in for the final kill. As with the cliff method ancient swamps have been identified where large numbers of mammoth bones with butchery marks on them have been found.
Dr Geoff Smith, an analyst for Jersey Archive, said: “It was in the 70s and 80s that the hypothesis was put forward that Neanderthals were grouping together to drive herds of woolly mammoth and woolly rhinos off the cliffs and butchering them.”
Our neanderthal ancestors had bigger brains than us, but some still insist on portraying them as dumb brutes. Same types of people who still to this day deny the existence of civilization predating known modern writings.
The plot to that sounds similar to the idea of the vacuum (re)exploding after all the energy returns to it. A cyclic universe, where expansion always was.
Nah, other than the existential journey of inner understanding I’m not too interested in most things that I can’t get my hands on to experience for myself.