Invisible Women of Prehistory
3 Million Years of peace, 6000 years of war.
This book may both fascinate and annoy you.
I don't agree with the authors belief Indo Europeans invented war and spread it around the world nor in Mayan - Chinese contact or a regular transpacific trade route however they do have some interesting ideas about using symbols and art to analyse ancient culture and unlike some writers in this area they do look at actual artifacts and cite sources and review writings on matrilineality.
Worth a look at.
Showing posts with label neolithic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neolithic. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Sesklo- The first Greek Settlement
SESKLO
The first GREEK settlement?
Well probably not since other Neolithic settlements like Nea Nikomedia have also since been found in Thessaly in Northern Greece but its one of the oldest dating occupied for over a thousand years.
Why do I consider this Neolithic settlement to be Greek ?
Note the use of slip and the symmetrical arrangement of the cord used to create a geometric pattern rather than spirals and the overall symmetry.
Now here's a reconstruction of what archaeologists think Sesklo looked like.
MMM terraced hillside and is it a central plaza / agora next to the main building?
Why do I say terrace rather than wall? This is Greece well their ancestors ... the houses are close but separate on a hill to leave slopes and flatter land free for farming and grazing and while many archaeologists believe walls were for defence ... remember there were still four legged predators back then and a need maybe to shelter garden plants from storms and rain and wandering stock .
Perhaps Sesklo should be called a proto polis?
The first GREEK settlement?
Well probably not since other Neolithic settlements like Nea Nikomedia have also since been found in Thessaly in Northern Greece but its one of the oldest dating occupied for over a thousand years.
Why do I consider this Neolithic settlement to be Greek ?
Note the use of slip and the symmetrical arrangement of the cord used to create a geometric pattern rather than spirals and the overall symmetry.
Now here's a reconstruction of what archaeologists think Sesklo looked like.
MMM terraced hillside and is it a central plaza / agora next to the main building?
Why do I say terrace rather than wall? This is Greece well their ancestors ... the houses are close but separate on a hill to leave slopes and flatter land free for farming and grazing and while many archaeologists believe walls were for defence ... remember there were still four legged predators back then and a need maybe to shelter garden plants from storms and rain and wandering stock .
Perhaps Sesklo should be called a proto polis?
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