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Posted on 08/16/2018 12:17:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Animal fat on ancient pottery reveals a nearly catastrophic period of human prehistory -- A bit more than 8000 years ago, the world suddenly cooled, leading to much drier summers for much of the Northern Hemisphere. The impact on early farmers must have been extreme, yet archaeologists know little about how they endured. Now, the remains of animal fat on broken pottery from one of the world’s oldest and most unusual protocities -- known as Çatalhöyük -- is finally giving scientists a window into these ancient peoples’ close call with catastrophe...
Today, Çatalhöyük is just a series of dusty, sun-baked ruins in central Turkey. But thousands of years ago it was a bustling prehistoric metropolis. From about 7500 B.C.E to 5700 B.C.E., early farmers grew wheat, barley, and peas, and raised sheep, goats, and cattle. At its height, some 10,000 people lived there. Among its more noteworthy features, Çatalhöyük’s inhabitants were obsessed with plaster, lining their walls with it, using it as a canvas for artwork, and even coating the skulls of their dead to recreate the lifelike countenances of their loved ones...
A team of researchers led by biochemists Mélanie Roffet-Salque and Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and archaeologist Arkadiusz Marciniak at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznaƒ, Poland, wondered whether Çatalhöyük’s farmers left behind any trace of the climate shift. Over the past few years, Marciniak had been digging up fragments of clay pottery (or potsherds) left buried in ancient trash piles, dating from about 8300 to 7900 years ago.
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Due to human activity by the Manbearpigis People
Wait a sec...you saying global cooling is a bad thing?
Today it is a relatively fertile region surrounded by very dry barren land. Has been that way for centuries and will remain so.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Younger Dryas, the freeze that was between two melting periods at the end of the Ice Age.
Younger Dryas, the freeze that was between two melting periods at the end of the Ice Age.
No, it was due to SUVs.
So evil they are that they can influence climate even before their invention.
Evil SUVs from outer-space!
I’m not saying it was Ancient Aliens, but...
Cool article. Thanks.
Cool post!
While I laugh at most of the articles saying every human achievement was ‘aliens!’ I believe that cities, agriculture, and some advanced technologies were existing before the last ice age ended and that much of that evidence lies under the sea.
[singing] Whale meat again, don't know how, don't know when...
My pleasure.
LOL!
Climate change is pretty much a recurring result of geological and atmospheric change. It is the primary driver of evolution, both species and societal.
I didn't ping this topic when I'd posted it a few weeks back, because I'd planned to post the companion piece, then, a few dozen sidetracks later, I rediscovered the original of this article, and was about to post it, but the graphic looked just so familiar... ah well, better late than never!
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