Worlds Oldest Temple?
Interesting discovery in Turkey:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
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Worlds Oldest Temple?
Interesting discovery in Turkey:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
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Hey dt8
"The archaeologists did find evidence of tool use, including stone hammers and blades." Did someone say hammers? LOL
I followed the link and I was blown away...that is cool.
I agree with the consenus...the oldest found...and the wooden ones long gone...but whatever drove them to make a holy cave, then a holy church/temple and then stone temples...this is what fascinates me.
What kind of society was this? And rich enough in a sense to be able to devote this kind of time/energy to? god ?
Where did you find this? Try posting it on reddit.com.
silver
Showed up on my Yahoo News. I enjoy stuff like that so opened it and read it.
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Neat. Thanks for sharing.
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I just finished reading World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, which I highly recommend. It's about a builder in the 14th century-I am amazed at what man could do without electricity.<g> I also read and enjoyed the Clan of the Cave Lion books which were about neanderthal man...cousins maybe to the clans who built these temples. I dig that old stuff.silver
Two out three of the magazines I get I do because of their historical content when it comes to this stuff. Smithsonian and National Geo., This article came from the Smithsonian's website according to the link.
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http://www.reddit.com/goto?id=79b7sAn old dig as well.Thanks for the one about the temple. I studied the carvings-and done without metal tools they say.I'd like to try to round up a crew to carve and them stand up those stones...<g> and I couldn't figure out why they don't fall over...must be dug in deep...and I want you guys to dig a 20' hole-LOLcheers,silver
I hope this does not gets moved to the Tavern, inasmuch as it is about building.
most of the finer details of architecture have all been developed for temples in our past. Probably the same can be said of engineering as well.
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I at first wasn't certain where to post it . Figured it would appeal to a number of those with the wisdom to stay out of the Tav though so posted it here.
I agree I hope it stays out.
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One interesting thing I picked up from an archy who was older than dirt along this line.Corbles that support roof over hangs or seat under cantilevers were originally designed based on what were referred to as "horns of the altar"
The horns where carved and shaped so as to guide blood flowing from sacrifices into basins placed there, like scuppers on a parapet roof detail.Think about that next time you see a corbel with that big S curve like a french curve from your drafting class, and the leave carved at the base tip to let water drip off of it at a single point. It is a detail that has been lost to time in a lot of the modern ones, or reverseved for aewthetic eyecandy and looses its functionality. Still supports structure sometimes, but even that is gone very often.
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Exellent article. If you read "After The Ice" you can better understand and appreciate the hardships and organization of pre-city human society.
I've always considered Lascaux and Altamira cave art as neolithic murals and the cave as a "temple." Unfortunately, few other structures from those periods remain, other than mammoth bone dwellings in Russia.