Skeptoid covers Göbekli Tepe: [skeptoid.com] A fascinating site, one we are just beginning to fathom, and may never fully understand.
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I have read studies of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies that show they spend about 4 hours a week getting sustenance and have the rest of the time to "play"...danc, e song, various arts & crafts. Compare this to our so-called 'easy" shopping, where you drag home the stuff after driving there, shopping, checking out, returning home & putting it all away. Unless you bought frozen pizza, can you even eat?
AnneWimsey
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Apr 21, 2020
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I've heard 20 hours a week? Did you mean 4 hours a day? In any event, yes, hunter gatherers had far more free time than civilized people. I think one historian once said something the effect that civilization was humanity's greatest mistake. 
@Druvius no, 4 hours a week!
@AnneWimsey It probably depends on what one is hunting and gathering.
@AstralSmoke and if you eat insects!
@AnneWimsey It'd take a lot of 'em.
@AstralSmoke locust hordes, anyone?
It amazes me how our technologies can blind people so thoroughly, that we think ancient peoples where complete idiots..
Charlene
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Apr 21, 2020
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The origin of this nonsense was the 19th century racist Atlantis "theory." Around then archeologists were discovering that civilization had been independently invented around the world, in some cases while the Greeks and Romans were still living in huts with their livestock. Couldn't have that, brown people inventing civilization without help from white people! So the Atlantis myth was invented, a lost ancient white civilization that preceded them all, was destroyed by a holocaust, but its survivors scattered around the world and showed brown people how to build civilization. Problem solved.
Interesting, an ongoing battle with 'bad' science.
AstralSmoke
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Apr 21, 2020
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Extremely interesting. It would be good to see some sort of rendering as to how and why they were used. Turkey has a lot of archeological sites. I was stationed there (Sinop) and my area was very old and full of history.
JackPedigo
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Apr 21, 2020
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I saw a NG or History Channel program on this just the other day.
Fascinating!
Geoffrey51
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Apr 21, 2020
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