Posted on 11/03/2008 6:43:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
New excavations have revealed that Izmir, once believe to be 5,000 years old, may be as old as 8,500 years.
Associate professor Zafer Derin of the Ege University archeology department, the head of the excavation team, said in a written statement his team had removed 150 artifacts discovered at the Yeflilova Tumulus excavation site, reported the Anatolia news agency.
Saying the findings discovered in the excavation played an important role in identifying those who lived in the area 8,500 years ago, Derin said: "Findings obtained from the excavation determined that those who lived in this area 8,500 years ago had an organized society and were related to the people who lived in Anatolia. We had clues that they also had commercial relations with people in the Anatolia region."
Derin said they discovered spoons with religious motifs and that the handle of the spoons unearthed at the site had been carved as a figure of motherhood and used to feed babies.
"We have discovered accessories made of stone and bones, beside seeds and animal bones. These prove that Yeflilova's Neolithic inhabitants were good at handcraft and agriculture."
Time TravelEge University has also launched a project to transform the area where the Yeflilova Tumulus is located into an educational area by re-enacting life in the area for visitors.
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“Students will also wear clothes from the era and have a chance to experience the conditions of the age.”
They wont be experiencing the conditions of the age until someone gets an abscessed tooth or a broken bone or infectious disease or some such. Then, let them learn to love the joy of pre-historic living.
Looks like Bishop Ussher got his arithmetic wrong...this would be 2500 years before the creation of Adam and Eve. True, they weren’t Turkish...
Absolutely impossible!! According to the barking moonbats, the earth is only 6,000 years old!! So, logic tells us that it is impossible for ANYTHING to be 2,500 years older than the earth!!
Thank you for this idiocy break!!
/sarc
Good point. And imagine the thrill that awaits the rest of us if BO wins - we get experience post-historic living.
If those kids want to really see what it was like to live 8500 years ago just move to America in a couple of years if the Democrats run the table.
Nah. We wouldn’t get to live the rough and unready of the ancients. We would get to relive all the misery and horror of the 1930s and 40s though. But this time, it’d be much more local and a lot less something going on over the horizon in someone else’s dirt.
* Is that the right word to use? Civilizations?
Sounds perfect to me. :’) A civilization means to build and live in cities, and it sounds like that’s been going on a while there. Catal Huyuk, a stone age site about 33 acres in extent, and hundreds of miles east of Izmir, was abandoned about 5500 BC, having existed for something like 3000 years. The idea that cities per se didn’t exist in prehistoric times got dumped some decades ago, when very large urban settlements from Neolithic times began to be identified.
Great article.
thanks, glad I found it.
My EYES!!! My EYES!!!!! I Can’t SEE (and I don’t want to!!!)
Interesting place, Turkey. BUT, saw all of it I cared to see back in the late 60’s. The ruins at Ephesus are a sight to behold but when you’ve seen one set of Roman ruins, you’ve seen ‘em all.
Har! That’s one butt ugly pharoah!
Archaeologists Unearth 9,000-Year-Old Settlement In Seydifledir (Turkey)
Turkish Daily News | 3-16-2006
Posted on 03/16/2006 2:05:58 PM PST by blam
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