Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski together with "Hristo", the 8000-skeleton before its transfer to the Vratsa Museum. Photo by Darik Radio Posted on 07/13/2010 5:48:28 AM PDT by decimon
Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski together with "Hristo", the 8000-skeleton before its transfer to the Vratsa Museum. Photo by Darik Radio
The 8000-year-old skeleton of a young man found near the village of Ohoden has been taken to the Regional History Museum in Vratsa.
The skeleton, already dubbed by the Bulgarian media as “the first European”, was discovered recently by archaeologist Georgi Ganetsovski who specializes in paleolithic settlements. It belonged to a 35-year-old man with a height of 165 cm.
This is the fourth 800-year-old skeleton found in the Valoga region near Ohoden, and the first one belonging to a man.
“We are uncovering a so far unknown prehistoric culture in Northwest Bulgaria which corresponds to the settlements in today's Serbia along the Morava River. One of the aims of our studies is to test the theory about the so called “Danube Road” of the spreading of the first settlements with economic production,” archaeologist Ganetsovski said.
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Interesting.
So which is it, 8000 or 800 years old. I am guessing 8000 since 800 years ago there were many males in Europe. Do they not have editors any more?
"...???..was he wearing #1"
I’d be interested to know the dating methods used. It’s probably 8000 years +/- 3000 years
First European man? I’d have to guess they found a primitive man-purse buried next to the skeleton.
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The Lepenski Vir culture is recorded clearly and in detail. Its stratigraphy has been plotted, the basic elements of its structure are known and the course of its development is clear. None the less, it is today a phenomenon isolated in time and space. The forms of a highly developed culture, a permanent settlement with an architectural plan which presupposes complex socio-economic relationships, and examples of monumental art certainly imbued with a profound religious sense, have been found at Lepenski Vir, initially a featureless area affording no sort of expectation of discoveries, nor of any tradition of earlier settlement. On the other hand, all the essential forms of the Lepenski Vir culture differ completely from the general cultural-historical pattern of the early prehistory of Europe. It seems that nothing created in the Danube Basin before or at the time of the flowering of the Lepenski Vir culture (Early and Middle Stone Age) can explain its exceptional nature, nor are its highly expressive activities endorsed by the events that directly followed it (the beginnings of the oldest culture of the Late Stone Age, Starčevo-Körös-Cris types). The Lepenski Vir culture had its precursors but not its ancestors; its heirs are known but not its descendants.
Skeleton of a child found in shallow grave.
Thanks Fred Nerks! I’m reminded of a couple of topics about prehistoric towns in the Alps somewhere... I’d look, but I said I was going offline about an hour ago. ;’)
There was an interesting article in National Geographic in the 1970s about a 50 foot high mound that was a village site. Upon excavating they found it went back either 6,000 years or 6,000 BC (can’t remember which). The early pottery was colorful and imaginative, then 2 or 3,000 years later there was pottery that was well made, but drab and monocolor. I think the mound was in Bulgaria. I remember thinking, “what happened to destroy these people’s joy and creativity?”
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old )
Smithsonian magazine ^ | November 2008 | # Andrew Curry # Photographs by Berthold Steinhilber
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2130449/posts
Was this what you remember?
The skeleton's name is Christ?
*Snort*
9,000-year-old house reveals Stone Age lifestyle
Discovery News | Aug 11, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 08/11/2009 5:44:59 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2313820/posts
The remains of a 9,000-year-old hunter-gatherers’ house, uncovered during construction at an airport, have been unearthed in Great Britain’s Isle of Man.
Maybe they just ran out of colored paint. ;’) Probably there was a disaster, invasion, plague, population change.
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