Interesting post in Science...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x39749


Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-Year-Old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development.

Compared to Stonehenge, Britain’s most famous prehistoric site, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers.


"Look at this", he says, pointing at a photo of an exquisitely carved sculpture showing an animal, half-human, half-lion. "It’s a sphinx, thousands of years before Egypt. Southeastern Turkey, northern Syria - this region saw the wedding night of our civilization."

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041708a.shtml

I'm wondering how this fits into the whole Great Year theory. The second paragraph above interests me also.

I hope that they're able to help us better understand humanity's development from this find.

Thanks for posting it, lildreamer.

among otherh things, it talks about the commonality of images from cave paintings through Egyptian heiroglyphics....lots of human/animal hybrids, similar geometric shapes, etc. His theory is that ancient peoples saw these visions as part of a religious trance (possibly drug-induced) and then recreated them on the cave walls when they woke up.