Israeli Archaeologists Find Hidden Pattern at 'World's Oldest Temple' Gobekli Tepe - Haaretz

Gobekli Tepe has just thrown another "curve" at the mainstream archaeological world, illustrating just how much moderns have to learn about their prehistory. Ariel David relates a mathematical discovery with huge implications for how the site's major monuments were planned, and that has similar ramifications for our understanding of early Neolithic (and perhaps even earlier) hunter-gatherer societies in the northern Levant. Assuredly, these exciting findings will encourage folks like Graham Hancock, and it will be interesting to see their incorporation into more traditional archaeological thinking. A similar pushback in charting prehistory is that an Alfresco Art Gallery 'Shows Wooly Mammoths and Rhinos Depicted by our Ancestors 15,000 Years Ago'. The identifications in this heavily-illustrated article suggest the petroglyphs in question date between 5,000 and 7,000 years earlier than had been thought. Another major shift in cultural interpretation seems underway as Bruce Bower reports that Skeletal Damage Hints Some Hunter-gatherer Women Fought in Battles. Data from Old and New World sites is behind this rethinking of prehistoric gender roles. And Justyna Feicht introduces a short video Uncovering the Mystery of Japan's 'Stonehenge'. How two non-archaeologists figured out the meaning behind this 5,000-year-old observatory set is almost as amazing as its existence and what that reveals about the people who created it. (WM)

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