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Scientific Team Finds On Of World's Oldest Cities
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| 2-22-2007
Posted on 02/22/2007 10:52:14 AM PST by blam
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02/22/2007 10:52:18 AM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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02/22/2007 10:52:43 AM PST
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blam
To: blam
I just realized that I have a tenuous grasp of "settlement" as opposed to "cities". Are these moving targets? or do archeologists have their own private language?
That sounds positively modern, that 5500 years... Here they are, elsewhere arguing whether man has been in the Americas 12,000 or 25,000 years.
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02/22/2007 10:57:45 AM PST
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Publius6961
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02/22/2007 11:06:15 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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02/22/2007 11:06:32 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Publius6961
The Great Pyramid in Egypt dates to about 3200 BC. Certainly Egyptian Cities predate this Syrian City?
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02/22/2007 11:08:23 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Young Werther
The Great Pyramid in Egypt dates to about 2500 BC. :')
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02/22/2007 11:15:04 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Publius6961
I have a tenuous grasp of "settlement" as opposed to "cities". Are these moving targets? Most definitely moving targets.
I believe that historically what denoted the difference between City, Town, and Village was the legal relationship the settlement had to the surrounding jurisdictions. Today in many ways these terms can be used interchangeably although they do connote differences in size of the community.
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posted on
02/22/2007 11:21:08 AM PST
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Fraxinus
(My opinion worth what you paid.)
To: blam
Aren't those the guys who had it in for Frodo?
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02/22/2007 11:23:03 AM PST
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william clark
(DH4WH - Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: william clark
Q: How do you make an Uruk Hai?
A: First you roll a gre-e-e-e-at big joint....
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02/22/2007 11:26:28 AM PST
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SlowBoat407
(A living insult to islam since 1959)
To: Publius6961
Too many uses of the word "scientific" in this article for my tastes. In my experience, constant repetition of that term means someone is doing something that has little, or no resemblance to science.
Also, did anyone else notice this "typo"?
The neighboUrhoods of Uruk,
Looks to me like a punster struck. :-)
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02/22/2007 11:33:18 AM PST
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zeugma
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To: SunkenCiv; Young Werther
IIRC the cities of the Indus Valley are older than this as well...
To: BenLurkin; Young Werther
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02/22/2007 11:36:18 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
Be careful, somewhere in that city is where Helen Thomas went to high school...
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02/22/2007 11:39:56 AM PST
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GreenLanternCorps
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To: SunkenCiv
Sigh, why are there never any photos accompanying such articles?
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02/22/2007 11:50:38 AM PST
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Ciexyz
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To: GreenLanternCorps; Ciexyz
GreenLanternCorps: Be careful, somewhere in that city is where Helen Thomas went to high school...
Ciexyz: Sigh, why are there never any photos accompanying such articles?
See what you've done?
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02/22/2007 11:54:32 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
The discovery, based on pottery fragments and other ceramics found So, they find a broken pot, and call it a city? It was probably a pot stolen from the museum in Baghdad. They sure jump to conclusions quick, don't they...
Maybe it's the lost city of Aad (which never existed) Mohammad mentions in his koran.
To: blam
The Spanish scientists hope to find evidence of the beginning of agriculture Simple. Just look for the first brewery.
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02/22/2007 12:06:24 PM PST
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kAcknor
(Don't flatter yourself.... It is a gun in my pocket.)
To: blam
I think that in terms of "cities" and "civilization" the city of Ur in ancient Sumer is still the champ, having hit its cultural peak at about 4,500 B.C.
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02/24/2007 4:33:20 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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