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Kahin Tepe: 'Oldest place of worship ever found' in Black Sea region


Hurriyet Daily News
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
Kahin Tepe

Kahin Tepe
The Kahin Tepe excavations in the northern province of Kastamonu's Araç district have unearthed findings belonging to the Neolithic period in the the oldest place of worship found in the Black Sea.

Having started in 2018, the excavations have been going on ever since by the Kastamonu Museum Directorate and consulted by the Düzce University head of the Protohistoric and Near Eastern Archaeology Department, Nurperi Ayengin.

Nineteen students and academics from various universities are working in the excavation field.

Speaking to the Anadolu Agency, Ayengin said that they started the excavations in the region two years ago for a dam rescue project near Başköy village.

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Pyramid

Egypt unveils 59 well-preserved coffins buried 2,500 years ago


France24
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:44 UTC
Well-preserved sarcophagi in Saqqara
© Khaled Desouki/AFP
One of the well-preserved sarcophagi unveiled at Egypt's Saqqara necropolis on October 3, 2020.
Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours.

The dramatic find was unearthed south of Cairo in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

"We are very happy about this discovery," said Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Since the find of the first 13 coffins was announced almost three weeks ago, more have been discovered in shafts at depths of up to 12 metres (40 feet).
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Blue Planet

Gates vaccine spreads polio across Africa

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Child given polio vaccine
© Gwenn Dubourthoumieu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Administering a polio vaccine in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has made himself the global vaccine czar as his foundation spends billions on spreading new vaccines globally. While much attention has been given to the role of Gates behind the corrupt WHO in promoting radical untested coronavirus vaccines, the record of the Gates Foundation pushing an oral polio vaccine across Africa gives more sobering evidence that all Gates says and does is not genuine human charity.

The UN has just recently admitted that new cases of infantile paralysis or polio have resulted in Africa from an oral polio vaccine developed with strong support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It mirrors what happened in the USA in the 1950s. This is worth a closer look.

Vaccines that cause polio

The vaccine industry loves to cite development of vaccines in the 1950s as solely responsible for eradicating what was a severe paralytic illness that reached a peak in the USA after World War II and as well, in England, Germany and other European countries. Now, despite the fact that no new cases of "wild polio" virus have been detected in all Africa since 2016, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and their allies in the WHO proclaimed that Gates' $4 billion ten-year African vaccination campaign using an oral polio vaccine had finally eliminated the dreaded polio. That was at the end of August.
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Info

Newly described rock art images show human-animal relationships

Amelia Nichele
Cosmos Magazine
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:25 UTC
Rock Art
© P. Taçon
Maliwawa macropod over 3MFC hand stencil, Namunidjbuk.
Arnhem Land rock art is continuing to provide a window into Australia's past, with scientists describing 572 previously unknown images in a paper in the journal Australian Archaeology.

The Maliwawa Figures, which range in age from 6000 to 9400 years, were documented across 87 sites from Awunbarna (Mount Borradaile area) to the Namunidjbuk Estate of the Wellington Range in northwest Arnhem Land.

The researchers suggest they are a missing link between early-style Dynamic Figures, 12,000 years in age, and X-ray figures made in the past 4000 years.

The images were created in various shades of red, with stroke-infill or outline forms and a few red strokes as infill. Some are more than 50-centimetres high.

The scenes depict humans and macropods, including three bilbies and a dugong, and lead researcher Paul Taçon, from Australia's Griffith University, suggests the presence of various forms of headdresses shows they are not just simple depictions of everyday life.

"Maliwawas are depicted as solitary figures and as part of group scenes showing various activities and some may have a ceremonial context," he says.
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The Younger Dryas impact research debate update

Dr. Martin Sweatman
Ancient Origins
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:15 UTC
Ice Age Skeletons
© Jonathan Chen / CC BY-SA 4.0
Ice Age Diorama. From left to right: Equus hemionus, Mammuthus primigenius, Coelodonta antiquitatis, Bison exiguous skeletal mounts at the Tianjin Natural History Museum.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis has received considerable attention since its publication in 2007 in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). It suggests the Younger Dryas geological period and mini Ice-Age, from around 10,850 to 9600 BC, along with associated megafaunal extinctions and human societal changes, was triggered by a catastrophic cosmic impact, probably with a fragmented comet from the Taurid meteor stream.

As of now, this paper by Richard Firestone, Allen West and Simon Warwick-Smith and colleagues has amassed over 550 citations in Google Scholar - which is a lot! It is on its way to becoming a classic. But it has also received more than its fair share of criticism, mostly sustained from just a handful of vehement opponents. But has any of their criticism stuck? And what is the status of Firestone et al.'s paper today? Has the dust settled on an outcome? Are we there yet?
Evolution of Temperatures
© Evolution of temperature in the Post-Glacial period according to Greenland ice cores/CC BY-SA 4.0
Evolution of temperatures in the post glacial period, after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), showing very low temperatures for the most part of the Younger Dryas, rapidly rising afterwards to reach the level of the warm Holocene, based on Greenland ice cores.
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Palaeolithic humans traversed Europe earlier than thought

Natalie Parletta
Cosmos Magazine
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:01 UTC
Lapa do Picareiro
© Jonathan Haws
The excavation of the early modern human (foreground) and Neanderthal layers (background) of Lapa do Picareiro.
New clues continue to unravel the compelling Palaeolithic mystery of modern human movements and the Neanderthal transition, suggesting the two groups overlapped by several thousand years and may have even interacted.

Archaeological evidence points to modern human settlement in westernmost Eurasia around 5000 years earlier than previous estimates, toppling suggestions that Neanderthals prevented our ancestors' dispersal throughout Europe.

The discovery "shows that modern humans moved rapidly across highly diverse landscapes and adapted to different climates and environments," explains Jonathan Haws from the University of Louisville, US, lead author of a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Neanderthal populations were probably not very dense and therefore unable to prevent moderns from invading their territory," he adds.

"It also raises the possibility that the two groups were contemporary and interacted with one another, ultimately leading to the assimilation of the Neanderthals."
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Bizarro Earth

The psychopaths who've dreamt and acted on a desire to depopulate the earth

Larry Romanoff
The Unz Review
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Kissenger
When writing of the evils of globalisation, many authors focus on the commercial aspects such as privatisation, with other primarily political components such as the loss of national sovereignty, the destruction of cultures and civilisations and of the family, morality and societies, being perhaps not ignored but not seen or included as integral parts of the same picture. It doesn't appear widely recognised that one fundamental pillar of globalisation, of our imminent New World Order in fact, is an astonishingly vigorous and vicious attempt to eliminate not only the world's surplus poor but to depopulate the entire non-white world. This essay is an introduction to the origins of depopulation.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Jewish Communist Bolshevik, anarchist, escapee from an insane asylum, conspirator to violence and murder, trouble-maker and nymphomaniac, and not necessarily in that order. From her teen-age days, Goldman studied the Bolshevik anarchists, leading her imagination to images of a social order with freedom of action unrestricted by man-made law. Goldman quickly came to support politically motivated murder and violent revolution, and the assassinations of politically significant individuals, as a tool for social change. She became a firm proponent of violence whenever words failed to do the job, an attitude some historians describe as 'propaganda of the deed', i.e. if they won't listen to us, we will kill them. According to the Jewish Womens' Website, "Desiring a state of absolute freedom and believing it would never come about through gradual reform, Goldman and her comrades advocated complete destruction of the State."[1]
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Propaganda

On Roosevelt and Stalin: What revisionist historians want us to forget

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
stalin churchill roosevelt
"Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance"

- William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
There is a very real attempt to rewrite history as we speak. A history that is at the root of what organises our world today, for it is understood that who controls the past, will have control over our present and our future.

This attempt to rewrite history is of the most paramount significance because it is what is used today to shape who we regard as a "friend" and who we regard as a "foe." Thus who controls the "narrative" of history, will also control who we see ourselves "aligned" with.

There is a consequence to this which can only lead to further disunity, to further conflict, to further war. It can only be remedied when the past is finally acknowledged.

There is still time to change this dreadful course.
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Info

Chromium steel was first made in ancient Persia millennium earlier than previously thought


EurekAlert
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:30 UTC
Chahak Girl
© Rahil Alipour, UCL
Chahak people and the layer.
Chromium steel - similar to what we know today as tool steel - was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously thought, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

The discovery, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, was made with the aid of a number of medieval Persian manuscripts, which led the researchers to an archaeological site in Chahak, southern Iran.

The findings are significant given that material scientists, historians and archaeologists have long considered that chromium steel was a 20th century innovation.

Dr Rahil Alipour (UCL Archaeology), lead author on the study, said: "Our research provides the first evidence of the deliberate addition of a chromium mineral within steel production. We believe this was a Persian phenomenon.

"This research not only delivers the earliest known evidence for the production of chromium steel dating back as early as the 11th century CE, but also provides a chemical tracer that could aid the identification of crucible steel artefacts in museums or archaeological collections back to their origin in Chahak, or the Chahak tradition."

Chahak is described in a number of historical manuscripts dating from the 12th to 19th century as a once famous steel production centre, and is the only known archaeological site within Iran's borders with evidence of crucible steel making.
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Archaeology

Four-thousand-year-old textile mill unearthed in western Turkey


TRT World
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:11 UTC
ancient textile mill turkey
© Sebahatdin Zeyrek / AA
Over the past several years, excavation in one of the largest settlements in western Anatolia has unearthed enlightening information on the textile history of the region
Excavation has been underway at the Beycesultan settlement, thought to have been built in 5000 BC, where archaeologists have found 40 consecutive cultural layers dating from the late Chalcolithic Period to late Bronze Age.

Turkish archaeologists have unearthed parts of a loom, textile tools and accessories dating back 4,000 years in the country's west.

Excavation and restoration teams have been working at the Beycesultan settlement in Denizli province for over a decade. Excavation in what is one of the largest settlements in western Anatolia has unearthed enlightening information on the textile history of the region.

"Last year's findings related to textile production had excited us. During this year's excavation works, the remaining parts of the house were unearthed," Esref Abay, head of the excavation team, said on Wednesday.
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