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To: pepsi_junkie; Happy Rain; hinckley buzzard

The site is the largest heavily fortified site in Europe known from that time; it’s a reasonable guess that it didn’t get built so sissy inhabitants could cower down behind the walls when their more powerful neighbors came in. As with the somewhat later Mycenaean sites in Greece and at Troy, the high-walled citadel was the stronghold from which a city-state was ruled, and that most of the habitation was outside the walls, iow, not yet identified and excavated.

IMHO, it’s also reasonable to guess that it’s the first one found, but nowhere near the last one of its kind in Europe.


14 posted on 10/06/2012 8:56:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
The site is the largest heavily fortified site in Europe known from that time; it’s a reasonable guess that it didn’t get built so sissy inhabitants could cower down behind the walls when their more powerful neighbors came in. As with the somewhat later Mycenaean sites in Greece and at Troy, the high-walled citadel was the stronghold from which a city-state was ruled, and that most of the habitation was outside the walls, iow, not yet identified and excavated.

Fortification goes hand-in-hand with agriculture. You need someplace secure to store the harvested grain, and other wealth of the area, so wandering bands of barbarians cant just raid you and carry off your food supply.

16 posted on 10/06/2012 9:41:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: SunkenCiv
Is archaeological discovery infinite?

Zillions of digs have been going on for hundreds of years now—is there a limit to welfare government hand-outs to the many superfluous archeology and anthropology grads who hope the Marxist in Chief forgives their student debt so that they may never have to work or think for a living and so can pleasantly zone out with benighted speculative theorizing sans objectivity currently appallingly fashionable to modern Leftist scientific dogma today.

18 posted on 10/06/2012 10:08:04 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Water is wet and Obama is a liar.")
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