Posted on 12/24/2014 6:25:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Wow, thanks FN!
Thanks, he is one of my guilty pleasures. :’) Interesting additional info about the skulls.
Incidentally, the Goblekli Tepe site construction looks almost nothing like the Maltese sites; also, radiocarbon dating is good out to 50,000 years, not 30,000, and the GT site has been successfully RC dated. the old white haired guy was either full of crap, or unqualified, or both.
> The best dates available so far for Göbekli Tepe stem from charcoal samples of short-lived plants. Two dates for Enclosure A settle in the late 10th and early 9th millennium calBC (Kromer and Schmidt 1998), but they could also indicate the use of older fill material. The last intrusions in the big enclosures can be dated by a charcoal sample found under a fallen pillar fragment in Enclosure A to the middle of the 9th millennium (Dietrich, in press).
The records of the inspections of the Maltese skulls also suggest that there were elongated skulls present that weren't artificially modified, but were a natural feature (a genetic aberration, or an inherited one). The recognition that larger skulls also have a larger brain capacity certainly provides an impetus for such practices, but doesn't answer the question of who the original cone-heads were, or why they were emulated for so persistently around the ancient world. Sadly, these are questions that can only be answered through comparative DNA testing of elongated skulls around the world, something that has yet to be done.
Thanks, Civ - hope your Christmas was cheery and bright. However, not signing up for the cookie on the site.
Will have to take your word.
Thanks again.
Have archeologists located the first Malt-O-Meal factories there?
What, you don’t like Christmas cookies?!? ;’) Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Michael Cremo discovered some kind of prehistoric hot breakfast food factory, but I can’t remember the name. ;’)
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Interesting article and pics. Very cool!
3 January, 2015 - 12:21 Igor Gontcharov Elongated Skulls in utero: A Farewell to the Artificial Cranial Deformation Paradigm? - See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/elongated-skulls-utero-farewell-artificial-cranial-deformation-paradigm-002526#sthash.sQh6LmBS.dpuf
http://ancientscienceartifacts.org/?p=142
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