Stunning carvings of human figures and heads are uncovered at Karahantepe - one of the important settlements of the Neolithic period - revealing the artistic skills of people who lived in Turkey 11,000 years ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | UPDATED: 12:53 EDT, 1 October 2021 | By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE

[ckilmer]

The descendants of Turkmen from Central Asia who run the Anatolian peninsula now have no connection to the Neolithic geniuses who made this stuff. What will the Turks do? Destroy it? Probably sell it for the greater glory of money. (But please to be making sure there are no graven images on the bills.)
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This stuff is going to be too much of a tourist attraction as the narrative about the first civilizations after the younger dryas becomes more well-known and widespread.

[ckilmer]

Since the neolithic revolution spread to Europe by way of farmers moving out from Anatolia—it’s likely this kind of monumental architecture is what provided the cultural impetus for the move. As well, it suggests the neolithic revolution quickly caused overpopulation—and thus the need to move out.

[ckilmer]

I have read variously that those bird figures are death cult figures and or astrological signs.

Those bird figures are not in any of the cave paintings around the world that predate the younger dryas.

On the other handbags in the pictures are a motif that shows 5-6 thousand years later among the Sumerians from 4000 bc onwards and the other Mesopotamian cultures up until about 500 bc.

[zeugma]

# Watched an interesting YouTube video awhile back which compared carvings on the *back* of the Easter Island statues (I didn’t even know there were carvings on the back!) with the carvings at gobekli tepe.

That’s nothing. I didn’t realize they had full bodies until just a few years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[Monkey Face]

Fascinating!!

Thanks, SC!

‘Face

;o]

[COBOL2Java]

Remarkable resemblance

[Flick Lives]

On the other handbags in the pictures are a motif that shows 5-6 thousand years later among the Sumerians from 4000 bc onwards and the other Mesopotamian cultures up until about 500 bc.

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Yeah, that “handbag” or “purse” icon is a recurring theme in a lot of cultures. What does it represent? Why is it being carried? One of those antiquities that at the time it was made, everyone knew what it meant, so no explanation is provided. Now it’s a mystery.

[blam]

"hey say the site is older than Gobekli, but nowhere did I see an actual date attesting to that. You have one?"

No. I was surprised to see that too.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. I can ping better than anyone I know!

[Grimmy]

Kinda, sorta, brings to mind the giant carved heads of the Olmecs.

[null and void]

Remarkable resemblance

It does look like it could be their love child...

[SunkenCiv]

Pharma companies that make OTC headache relief should shape them like the Olmec heads. They'd make themselves look all diversey and wokey.

[Bob Ireland]

It is becoming obvious that those Neolithic hunter-gatherers had a way too much time on their hands - in order to find the time to build two mammoth mega stone sites. It appears that many of them must have been receiving government support benefits such as pre-trapped animals and pre-gathered berries and such, as well as subsidzed wigwams and/or lean-to's, plus perhaps travel expenses. No evidence yet of pawn shops or thrift stores.

[Red Badger]

Beer hadn’t been invented yet.........................

[ckilmer]

I have read somewhere that the “purse” was actually a water bucket. Because the neolithic revolution did not occur in places where there was lots of water all year long.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[JeanLM]

So you think the people who built this were already advanced and farming 11,000 years ago? Not any evidence of domesticated cereal grains or irrigation back then. These people worshiped animals and were probably still master hunters of big game, but their social organization must have been much more advanced than small bands to complete this activity.

Then the big game ran out. The site was abandoned and covered for a thousand years.

[Bob Ireland]

***Beer hadn’t been invented yet... ***

That must be it. 🤷‍♂️
They must be resting between erecting carved 20 ton stones...

[Fred Nerks]

I'm guessing seeds, or pollen:

No matter the dating, they all had eat...