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Brad_Smith
11-June-2005, 09:27 PM
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=645976

Any thoughts? Personally, I think it's great . . . .
frogesque
11-June-2005, 11:58 PM
Fascinating stuff if confirmed. The origins of history are being pushed further back by archaeology. Just because Ancient peoples didn't leave written records doesn't mean they were ignorant or backward. I would like to see more about contextural use of the buildings. It's a lot of work to suport a purely religious institution and there must have been some practical use for these buildings. (Not contempory, but I'm thinking along the lines of Tythe barns used in the Middle Ages or somesuch)
Kesh
12-June-2005, 01:34 AM
Time until GLP uses this to shore up "alien teachers" ideas... 3... 2... 1... ;)
sarongsong
12-June-2005, 01:56 AM
...The most complex excavated so far---located inside the city of Dresden---consisted of an apparently sacred internal space surrounded by two palisades, three earthen banks and four ditches...
Found no pics, but the Tarxien Temples (http://images.google.com/images?q=tarxien%20temples&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi) of Malta (http://164.109.173.140/OL_shorex/gvoyages_eur/tour_valletta.htm) may suggest some possibilities:
"...Dating from about 3300 to 2500 BC, the last phase of the Stone Age...one of the best-preserved examples of the Neolithic stone temples to be found on Malta..."
frogesque
12-June-2005, 02:00 AM
Time until GLP uses this to shore up "alien teachers" ideas... 3... 2... 1... ;)

Any bets on 'Godfathers of the Illuminati' ?

(I know, I know - it should be all caps and more punctuation but it makes my eyes hurt :lol: )
Halcyon Dayz
12-June-2005, 02:49 AM
Very interesting.

Archaeologist have a tendency though, to lump everything they
don't understand under the label Cultist.
paulie jay
12-June-2005, 10:33 AM
Their civilisation seems to have died out after about 200 years and the recent archaeological discoveries are so new that the temple building culture does not even have a name yet.

So - let's name it!


I suggest The Chocolate Bavarians.
frogesque
12-June-2005, 10:43 AM
Maybe they were the original race of Igors

(too many references, seach for Igor discworld)
John Kierein
12-June-2005, 01:16 PM
Is Wikipedia up to date or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_temples_of_prehistoric_Central_Europe
Brad_Smith
12-June-2005, 09:38 PM
Which is why I love Wikipedia . . . .
Chief Engineer Scott
13-June-2005, 04:40 PM
So - let's name it!


I suggest The Chocolate Bavarians.

or how about Great Zimbabwe North ? :wink:
sidmel
13-June-2005, 06:03 PM
The Lost Umpa Lumpa Empire?

Dobbie dee do!
01101001
13-June-2005, 07:37 PM
The Lost Umpa Lumpa Empire?!

The Wannabes?
The First-in-first-outs?
The Dudes-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands?
The Monumental-failures?
The Eo-euros?
Maksutov
13-June-2005, 07:56 PM
I wonder what the exchange rate for Eo-euros was back then... :-k
farmerjumperdon
13-June-2005, 08:01 PM
Maybe they were the original race of Igors

(too many references, seach for Igor discworld)

Pronounced Eye-gore. :)
Maksutov
13-June-2005, 08:04 PM
Maybe they were the original race of Igors

(too many references, seach for Igor discworld)

Pronounced Eye-gore. :)
What hump?
sidmel
14-June-2005, 01:32 AM
The Lost Umpa Lumpa Empire?!

The Wannabes?
The First-in-first-outs?
The Dudes-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands?
The Monumental-failures?
The Eo-euros?

Well, some of the ruins were apparently found in Germany. That would explain their obsession, and I might add wonderful, chocolate.
hewhocaves
14-June-2005, 01:54 AM
Is Wikipedia up to date or what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_temples_of_prehistoric_Central_Europe

4600BC?

it's perfectly clear that they started with "Cerimonial Burial" as an advance.
Probably got wiped out by barbarians from a nearby "Goodie hut", though.
:D

John

(apologies to those who don't play "Sid Meier's Civilization" and consequently don't get the references)
The Supreme Canuck
14-June-2005, 01:56 AM
I got it just fine. Quite good. :P
umop ap!sdn
14-June-2005, 03:06 AM
Just because Ancient peoples didn't leave written records doesn't mean they were ignorant or backward.
It's a shame they didn't... that was so long ago, that they wouldn't even have been speaking an Indo-European language. Proto-IE was still being spoken in western Asia and hadn't spread out into its many branches yet. Any kind of linguistic records from a civilization that old would be extremely useful. :D