Posted on 09/17/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by NYer
They built rounds houses so the cats could not find a corner.
Neat, interesting find.
So far, undocumented.
Made by aliens from other planets.
So far, undocumented.
They all are.....so far.
The great muslim first spacemen of course.
Num 1:51 And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
Num 1:52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own standard, according to their armies;
Num 1:53 but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony."
Num 1:54 Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.
Made before muslims appeared on the scene and the area was still populated by creative and industrious people.
I wish the photo came with a ‘scale’. How big are those things?
You put stones on the material at the bottom of the side of a tent to keep the wind from coming in at the bottom. Do I get a PhD in Archeology now? Doctor Blueunicorn6....has a nice ring to it.
Maybe they ran out of redwood and vinyl and had to use stones for fences.
I was watching an old western movie and the wagons formed a circle for protection at night.
Ahhhhhh.....very clever NYer.....I took a closer look at that picture.....it’s from Woodstock. The rings are from where the porta-potties were.
The orginal 10 commandments, written by the finger of God. If the left hears of this, they will say they are offended and want it removed.
"There seems to be some overarching cultural continuum in this area in which people felt there was a need to build structures that were circular."
1) surface rocks that must be cleared to use an area
2) need barrier around cleared area for protection of whatever it's used for (caravan animals? traveling herds? seasonal gardens? something else?)
3) circle has smallest perimeter for a given area
4) for given amount of material, shortest perimeter = highest barrier for given thickness/thickest barrier for given height
5) it's an oasis in the middle of desolation, meaning (usually) periodic, not permanent usage, so the barriers are the only permanent structures.
Therefore, circular areas should be no surprise, nor should be (given the lack of large scale workforces with skilled engineering overseers, & intermittent usages) the small size & crudeness of the stack works.
Look for firepits and related artifacts; and maybe discarded broken harness/saddle parts in any excavations, but not much else.
Regarding Children of Israel roaming in the Wilderness, Jordan could be part of that ~ but they've had people wandering about the area even during the Ice Age so marks on the ground can be very ancient. That's long before there was an Israel, or a Hebrew, or even a Sumer.
Yep, you got it.
Maybe w/ some low interior ‘walls’ to mark off ‘rooms’.
Not in Jordan, your passage is from Sinai
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