Çatalhöyük Excavations Unveil Very Dawn Of Human Civilization

Turkish Daily News ^ | 7-10-2006

[Max in Utah]

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[Max in Utah]

OOPS

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[Just mythoughts]

Very interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. That Catalhuyukians came from somewhere else, perhaps the now-submerged continental shelf.

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[Constitution Day]

Very cool! Thanks for the post & the ping.

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[SunkenCiv]

Re: limerick -- Catal is sort of pronounced "chattal" and huyuk is "hoo-yook".

And, uh, good luck with the rhyme. ;')

[r9etb]

7000 to 10000 is a lot of folks hacking at the ground with stones to farm. A lot of people to feed with game. A lot of people living in one spot. Just building privies would be a full time job.

Which, coupled with the idea that they floated their building materials downriver from 40 miles away, suggests a rather high level of sophistication and specialization.

Also, the idea that newer houses were built on the remains of older ones, suggests to me the possibility of organized warfare, including the destruction of the older city.

[muleskinner]

Catal Huyuk is Turkish for Cthulhu. The etymological relationship is obvious, not to mention the cultural similarities. The evil minions have disguised the true object of adoration very well indeed.

[Ciexyz]

Burying your loved ones under the floorboards, Alfred Hitchcock would be impressed.

[r9etb]

Harmine ... is well known for causing visions of panthers, leopards, and other large cats. This curious property has been attested to by dozens of reporters, both native and presumably immune white ethno-botanists, who consistently describe hallucinatory adventures with big cats.

I wonder if that's really true. If so, it's quite interesting on a number of levels.

[r9etb]

Burying your loved ones under the floorboards, Alfred Hitchcock would be impressed.

Ah, but Poe does it so much better:

The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. I placed my hand upon the heart and held it there many minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more. If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence.

I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly so cunningly, that no human eye -- not even his -- could have detected anything wrong. There was nothing to wash out -- no stain of any kind -- no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for that.

[Ciexyz]

Ah, The Tell-Tale Heart, one of my favorite Poe stories. BTW, look for new biographies of Poe to come out in the next few years leading up to the bicentennial of his birth in January 2009.

[Billthedrill]

OK, it is a challenge...lessee...

A fellow from Çatalhöyük
Had his forearm replaced with a hook
He said with a smile
"I've got Iron Age style,
"And a Paleolithic outlook!"

Yeh, I know - I won't be giving up the day job...BTT...

[gleeaikin]

How about "in my kayak" or in your kayak, or in a kayak.

[MadLibDisease]

Mark

[Billthedrill]

I'm afraid I'd be tempted to run that into a prurient reference to Selma Hayek and SunkenCiv would cyber-thrash me...

[gleeaikin]

And here I thought FR was a place for living dangerously. Ah disillusionment.

[SunkenCiv]

Actually not bad. :'D

[SunkenCiv]

Prurient is good... maybe not in a public thread though. I've been cyber-thrashed a few times in my day, and it isn't as glamourous as it sounds. :')