Temple Discovered That Predates Pyramids (and, more interestingly, all other human settlements)

It's saying the temple was the item that brought people together to start towns and cities and everything else followed, farming, bars, banks, etc, etc.

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Originally Posted by Shakey

Here we go...

That's exactly what he's saying. Did you even read the article?

What the fuck are you even talking about? I'm assuming that you're saying that the use of tools indicates the start of civilization, which it doesn't. Hominids have been known to use tools in the Stone Age, well before this temple. What this turns over is that the thought religon and temples came about after things like agriculture and domesticated animals, which were previously considered the two benchmarks for civilization.

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Yeah I read it. Guy finds temple. It is older than any of the pots or remains of cities that we have found.

And then he jumps to the conclusion that these ruins are the oldest man made structres in the world, and people met to worship at them, and while they were there they thought up houses and farming. That at some point they said to themselves "Hey this temple would rock if we didn't have to go hunt and gather up fruit. Maybe we should like, build our own shelter here by it."

The dude has no way of knowing that. He says himself that resources were all imported. That there were no fire pits or hut remains. For all he knows, this was a religious area that people went on journeys to, or was 20 minutes away from the actual town.

Besides, the guy has only uncovered 5% of the ruins. How can he make such game changing claims when he has only looked at 5% of something? There could be the remains of pots or huts in that other 95%

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Yeah, even hunter gathers probably had Gods and belief system on why the world was the way it was.

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But they were a lot more loosely defined. You'll also notice that there was no direct written language there, or even any clear symbolic communication. Meaning that this would even predate the language needed to define itself.

I'm beginning to wonder if what was previously considered the beginnings of religon was, in actuality, when a ruling class of some sort started to use religon to manipulate people.

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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday

It's saying the temple was the item that brought people together to start towns and cities and everything else followed, farming, bars, banks, etc, etc.

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Yeah, I get that. And I'm calling shenanigans until more has been uncovered.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Yeah I read it. Guy finds temple. It is older than any of the pots or remains of cities that we have found.

And then he jumps to the conclusion that these ruins are the oldest man made structres in the world, and people met to worship at them, and while they were there they thought up houses and farming. That at some point they said to themselves "Hey this temple would rock if we didn't have to go hunt and gather up fruit. Maybe we should like, build our own shelter here by it."

The dude has no way of knowing that. He says himself that resources were all imported. That there were no fire pits or hut remains. For all he knows, this was a religious area that people went on journeys too, or was 20 minutes away from the actual town.

Besides, the guy has only uncovered 5% of the ruins. How can he make such game changing claims when he has only looked at 5% of something? There could be the remains of pots or huts in that other 95%

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LOL.

He's clearly wasting his time. You should send him this statement so he can do something more productive with his life like trying to find weird surf guitars that no one cares about.

I can see the headlines

PARADIGM SHIFTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG CANCELLED
Scientist can't go on after internet calls "Shenanagins"

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Originally Posted by Shakey

But they were a lot more loosely defined. You'll also notice that there was no direct written language there, or even any clear symbolic communication. Meaning that this would even predate the language needed to define itself.

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This too is a bit of a jump. Do you have any information to back up the idea that people didn't talk before making written language?

Hunter Gathers, if they could talk, probably passed down oral religion for a long time before writing any of it down.

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Originally Posted by Shakey

LOL.

He's clearly wasting his time. You should send him this statement so he can do something more productive with his life like trying to find weird surf guitars that no one cares about.

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Alright, lets not be a little girl. Just because I don't completely buy into the idea that OMG all civilization sprang out of this temple, doesn't mean he shouldn't keep digging.

And Josh cares about my guitars.

Clearly this was built by predators to confine lizard people. David Icke was right all along....

Actually, this is really cool but not the weirdest thing out there by far.

India seems to have tangible nuclear radiation in the soil dating back 10,000 years.

Perhaps those ug ug cavemen had a bit more brains then we give them credit for. They did manage to get from north africa all around the world right?

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Originally Posted by ElCapichan

Zuul or GTFO.

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