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The Peripheral Standing Stones of Corrimony Chambered Cairn, Scotland
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victusinveritas · 8 months
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Cave Art of Banging, Algeria, c. 7000 BCE
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letmeinimafairy · 2 months
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A bigger decorative piece with cave painting handprints. River pebble and tempera
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A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study by University College London researchers. In a study published in Nature Water, the archaeological team describe a network of ceramic water pipes and drainage ditches at the Chinese walled site of Pingliangtai dating back 4,000 years to a time known as the Longshan period. The network shows cooperation among the community to build and maintain the drainage system, though no evidence of a centralized power or authority. Dr. Yijie Zhuang (UCL Institute of Archaeology), senior and corresponding author on the paper, said, "The discovery of this ceramic water pipe network is remarkable because the people of Pingliangtai were able to build and maintain this advanced water management system with stone age tools and without the organization of a central power structure. This system would have required a significant level of community-wide planning and coordination, and it was all done communally." The ceramic water pipes make up a drainage system which is the oldest complete system ever discovered in China. Made by interconnecting individual segments, the water pipes run along roads and walls to divert rainwater and show an advanced level of central planning at the neolithic site. What's surprising to researchers is that the settlement of Pingliangtai shows little evidence of social hierarchy. Its houses were uniformly small and show no signs of social stratification or significant inequality among the population. Excavations at the town's cemetery likewise found no evidence of a social hierarchy in burials, a marked difference from excavations at other nearby towns of the same era. But, despite the apparent lack of a centralized authority, the town's population came together and undertook the careful coordination needed to produce the ceramic pipes, plan their layout, install and maintain them, a project which likely took a great deal of effort from much of the community. The level of complexity associated with these pipes refutes an earlier understanding in archaeological fields that holds that only a centralized state power with governing elites would be able to muster the organization and resources to build a complex water management system. While other ancient societies with advanced water systems tended to have a stronger, more centralized governance, or even despotism, Pingliangtai demonstrates that was not always needed, and more egalitarian and communal societies were capable of these kinds of engineering feats as well.
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mapsontheweb · 15 days
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Neolithic sites in Ireland
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teethands · 1 month
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little snapshots of a mod i have been working on for a few days, cenozoicraft, understandably based around adding cenozoic animals to the minecraft world along with neolithic tools. its heavily based around hunting and utilizing animal parts. most of what is here is tamable and rideable with fun little taming mechanics, so dont expect to be able to waltz up to a smilodon. more to come soon
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eezordalf-the-ardent · 7 months
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Individual houses were typically in use for between fifty and 100 years, after which they were carefully dismantled and filled in to make foundations for superseding houses. Clay wall went up on clay wall, in the same location, for century after century, over periods reaching up to a full millennium. Still more astounding, smaller features such as mud-built hearths, ovens, storage bins and platforms often follow the same repetitive patterns of construction, over similarly long periods. Even particular images and ritual installations come back, again and again, in different renderings but the same locations, often widely separated in time.... as individual houses built up histories, they also appear to have acquired a degree of cumulative prestige. This is reflected in a certain density of hunting trophies, burial platforms and obsidian - a dark volcanic glass, obtained from sources in the highlands of Cappadocia, some 125 miles north. The authority of long-lived houses seems consistent with the idea that elders, and perhaps elder women in particular, held positions of influence. But the more prestigious households are distributed among the less, and do not appear to coalesce into elite neighborhoods.
a description of Çatalhöyük, a neolithic city from 7,400 bc. from the dawn of everything, by davids: graeber and wengrow.
this city remained settled for 1,500 years - "roughly the same period of time that separates us from amalafrida, queen of the vandals in .. ad 523"
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sixteenseveredhands · 7 months
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Prehistoric Mirrors from Turkey, c.6000 BCE: these are the oldest manufactured mirrors in the world, dating back about 8,000 years; they were meticulously crafted from pieces of obsidian
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Two of the obsidian mirrors from Çatalhöyük (Turkey); this pair was found buried together back in 2012
At least eight of these obsidian mirrors have been found at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic site located in Turkey. All of these mirrors date back about 8,000 years, and each one was crafted from a chunk of obsidian (volcanic glass) that was knapped into the shape of a disc and then meticulously polished with progressively finer abrasives until a smooth, slightly convex surface had been developed. Some of these mirrors can still produce remarkably clear reflections.
Sources & More Info:
The Archaeologist: World's Oldest Mirrors Found at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Site
Çatalhöyük Research Project: Archive Report from 2012 (PDF download)
Çatalhöyük Research Project: Main Website
The Past: Cyber Archaeology, How 3D Modeling is Unpeeling the Neolithic at Çatalhöyük
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gwydpolls · 8 months
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Time Travel Question 14: Ancient History VI and Earlier
These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.
This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.
Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.
I am particularly in need of more specific non-European suggestions in particular, but all suggestions are welcome.
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kinderschreckfigur · 1 year
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Garrywhin Iron Age Hillfort, Caithness, Scotland
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ancientorigins · 11 months
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A 7000-year-old road has been unearthed off the coast of Croatia revealing insights into the ancient Hvar culture’s engineering knowledge.
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memories-of-ancients · 5 months
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Marble female figurine, Cyclades Islands (Greece), 4500-4000 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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letmeinimafairy · 4 months
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Making big stone portals now. Probably due to subconscious irrational hope it will teleport me the hell out of here (motherland wants me out of existence again)
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Dabous Giraffes, dated 8000 BC, Dabous, Aïr Mountains, Niger,
Two of the biggest animal rock Neolithic petroglyphs in the world!
The carvings are 6 metres (20 ft) in height and consist of two giraffes carved into the Dabous Rock with a great amount of detail. One of the giraffes is male, while the other, smaller, is female.
Credit: historydefined
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mapsontheweb · 5 months
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The domestication of plants in the neolithic.
by LegendesCarto
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