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fromOpen Culture
4 weeks ago

Gobekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization

Göbekli Tepe's monumental, urban-like complexity predates agriculture, challenging the assumption that farming preceded cities and civilization.
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fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Crimean Neanderthals made Stone Age crayons from ocher 50,000 years ago

Neanderthals fashioned ocher into crayon-like tools and carved pigment pieces, indicating deliberate symbolic and artistic behavior around 46–47 thousand years ago.
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fromMail Online
3 months ago

Discovery at Turkey's 'cradle of civilization rewrites human origins

A 12,000-year-old T-shaped pillar at Karahantepe bears the earliest known realistic stone-carved human face, indicating early portraiture and personal identity.
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