9,000-year-old ritual complex found in Jordan desert

France 24 News ^ | 2/23/2022 | Amman (AFP)

[stockpirate]

"Archaeologists deep in the Jordanian desert have discovered a 9,000-year-old ritualistic complex near what is thought to be the earliest known large human-built structure worldwide." "The Stone Age shrine site, excavated last year, was used by gazelle hunters and features carved stone figures, an altar and a miniature model of a large-scale hunting trap. The giant game traps the model represents -- so-called "desert kites" -- were made of long walls that converge to corral running gazelles into enclosures or holes for slaughter. Similar structures of two or more stone walls, some several kilometres (miles) long, have been found in deserts across Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Kazakhstan." "The Neolithic-era ritual site was discovered inside a larger campsite last October by a joint French-Jordanian team called the South Eastern Badia Archaeological Project. The nearby desert kites in Jibal al-Khashabiyeh are "the earliest large-scale human built structures worldwide known to date," said a statement by the SEBA Project. It hailed the "spectacular and unprecedented discovery" of the ritualistic site, believed to date to about 7000 BC. It featured two steles with anthropomorphic features, the taller one 1.12 metres high, other artefacts including animal figurines, flints, and some 150 arranged marine fossils. The wider, decade-old research project aims to study "the first pastoral nomadic societies, as well as the evolution of specialised subsistence strategies". "The desert kites suggest "extremely sophisticated mass hunting strategies, unexpected in such an early timeframe," said the project's statement."

[stockpirate]

Pictures at link

[stockpirate]

pingie thing

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

[hinckley buzzard]

Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is dated to about 2000 years earlier. But who’s counting.

[GaltAdonis]

"...Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is dated to about 2000 years earlier..."

I never knew this. Learn something new every day.
Thanks for posting!

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What is significant about the discovery of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey?

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Located in modern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is one of the most
important archaeological sites in the world. The discovery
of this stunning 10,000 year old site in the 1990s CE sent
shock waves through the archaeological world and beyond,
with some researchers even claiming it was the site of the
biblical Garden of Eden.

[Dr. Sivana]

It’s a good thing that minotaur was killed.

[stockpirate]

I didn’t write the headline, I only posted it.

[stockpirate]

And you posted this pic why?

[norwaypinesavage]

""Archaeologists deep in the Jordanian desert have discovered a 9,000-year-old ritualistic complex near what is thought to be the earliest known large human-built structure worldwide."

Gobekli Tepe in Turkey has this beat by around 2 to 4 thousand years.

[Red Badger]

Because that’s what the object reminds me of!

People were tougher back in those days!..............

[jjotto]

There’s a site similar to Gobekli some miles away from it that is even older.

[Salamander]

It’s much more G rated than what I would’ve posted.

:-P

[Salamander]

Makes ya wonder

[GaltAdonis]

"...a site similar to Gobekli some miles away from it that is even older..."

[stockpirate]

“Gobekli Tepe in Turkey has this beat by around 2 to 4 thousand years.”

I am aware of that site as well. But as I mentioned to another I did not write the headline.

[stockpirate]

“It’s much more G rated than what I would’ve posted.”

Why are you somehow offended by an article that reports on something revealing a little truth.

[Zathras]

You did fine!
Thanks for the info!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks stockpirate.

• New geoglyphs of the Jordanian Harrat [05/15/2013]

[SunkenCiv]

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