. . . and who I guess would be imprisoned or killed if they showed up now, since Islam forbids art that portrays anything living. Doesn't that put those Neolithic dudes way ahead of the sh*thole Moslem country that sits above ground now--where it's illegal to create what the Turks just found?
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.)
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.