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Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 27, 2009

Posted on 02/27/2009 9:47:03 PM PST by Steelfish

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? By TOM COX

For the old Kurdish shepherd, it was just another burning hot day in the rolling plains of eastern Turkey. Following his flock over the arid hillsides, he passed the single mulberry tree, which the locals regarded as 'sacred'.

The bells on his sheep tinkled in the stillness. Then he spotted something. Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a strange, large, oblong stone.

The man looked left and right: there were similar stone rectangles, peeping from the sands. Calling his dog to heel, the shepherd resolved to inform someone of his finds when he got back to the village. Maybe the stones were important.

They certainly were important. The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer's day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years.

Others would say he'd made the greatest archaeological discovery ever: a site that has revolutionised the way we look at human history, the origin of religion - and perhaps even the truth behind the Garden of Eden.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adamandeve; anatolia; archaeology; catalhoyuk; catalhuyuk; creationism; discovery; eden; gardenofeden; gobeklitepe; godsgravesglyphs; oldearthspeculation; origins; prehistory; religionofatheism; sanliurfa; turkey
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
Will the nonsense spawned by that idiot Rousseau EVER stop??

No. Mostly because to stop it would mean taking a hard look at ourselves.

61 posted on 02/28/2009 5:03:41 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages.)
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To: COBOL2Java

That’s possible. The source for the origin of the myth.


62 posted on 02/28/2009 5:17:47 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
That’s possible. The source for the origin of the myth.

It's an interesting field of study, like the Black Sea deluge theory which may have been the source of the Noah's Ark story.

63 posted on 02/28/2009 5:34:13 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
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To: Steelfish

Great Post Bump - don’t miss the Smithsonian link at #14! ;-)


64 posted on 02/28/2009 5:48:27 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: eclecticEel

We love the notion that farming is an easy, weakening way of living. One wonders how much time farming people who sprout such nonsense have engaged in.


65 posted on 02/28/2009 5:55:11 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: Steelfish

bump for later read.


66 posted on 02/28/2009 6:03:39 AM PST by safisoft
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To: AmericanVictory
We love the notion that farming is an easy, weakening way of living. One wonders how much time farming people who sprout such nonsense have engaged in.

That isn't what the author said. The author said there was a temporary change in skeleton because the diet was lower in protein and farming was wearisome, meaning harder.

"When people make the transition from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, their skeletons change - they temporarily grow smaller and less healthy as the human body adapts to a diet poorer in protein and a more wearisome lifestyle. Likewise, newly domesticated animals get scrawnier."

67 posted on 02/28/2009 6:56:13 AM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center 1971?)
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To: Steelfish
Fascinating! Thanks for posting.
68 posted on 02/28/2009 7:08:56 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Steelfish
"So what destroyed the environment? The answer is Man. "

There it is.

69 posted on 02/28/2009 7:10:53 AM PST by blam
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To: Steelfish

Fascinating ...


70 posted on 02/28/2009 7:20:23 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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To: Straight Vermonter
"Herr Schmidt could be correct but it's a hell of a jump to say that the regional climate was destroyed by farming when there is no evidence farming much less destructive farming.

I didn't mean to imply that their may have been deforestation for agricultural reason, perhaps the just harvested the wood to use the wood.

I've read similar observations about the area that now is home to Great Pyramids. There's some speculation that when the Sphinx was originally built, the Giza valley was much more fertile and vegetative. But, deforestation for the next 1,000 years or so, coupled with an extended, very rainy period, led to the conditions that are now present today.

71 posted on 02/28/2009 8:27:01 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: ansel12

Good point. I read too hastily. However, most who have done any farming as most of us have experienced it didn’t fail to consume a large amount of protein. It may be that archeological evidence of ancient times establishes that there were cultures of farming where there were no animals raised for food and nothing such as eggs.


72 posted on 02/28/2009 8:30:43 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: AmericanVictory

“However, most who have done any farming as most of us have experienced it didn’t fail to consume a large amount of protein. It may be that archeological evidence of ancient times establishes that there were cultures of farming where there were no animals raised for food and nothing such as eggs.”


True hunter gatherers that stop hunting and start eating the early grassy versions of what later became wheat,corn, barley, etc. using sticks to plant and carrying water, and such, before the domestication and raising of farm animals is probably a lot different than a modern American farm with plush fields of plenty, chickens, a dairy cow, pigs in the pen and egg and cheese omelets.


73 posted on 02/28/2009 8:43:13 AM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center 1971?)
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To: ansel12

You’re right. I was extrapolating from farming as we know it.


74 posted on 02/28/2009 8:49:37 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: Steelfish

Interesting reading, until it degenerates into radical environmentalist propaganda!


75 posted on 02/28/2009 9:47:37 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: PAR35
Yes, but why is it playing volleyball, and what is the meaning of the padlocks? And is the scorpion watching the volleyball game, or is it unrelated

Team mascots, perhaps? Let's say the site was used for sporting competitions between area teams. The Mighty Dodos vs. the Fighting Scorpions. Team logos emblazoned on pillars.

If future archeologists were to excavate the site of an NFL game between the Ravens and the Colts, there would be a lot of blathering on about worship of birds and horses. Ravens symbolizing the underworld, Colts symbolizing fertility, etc.

I'm only half-kidding when I say this theory makes no less sense than the psychobabble speculation offered by the "experts" about this archeological find.

76 posted on 02/28/2009 10:46:33 AM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
this theory makes no less sense than the psychobabble speculation offered by the "experts" about this archeological find.

Amen to that one.

77 posted on 02/28/2009 11:29:04 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Steelfish

There must have been some very P’Od folks in eastern African walking around and then finding out the fruit trees were better over yonder.


78 posted on 02/28/2009 11:35:10 AM PST by nufsed
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79 posted on 02/28/2009 12:18:35 PM PST by anglian
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