Skull cults, human sacrifice, ritual de-fleshing of victims? Once again, it looks like Robert E. Howard is turning out to be a better guide to human history than the hippie anthropologist who taught me back in the 1960's and 70's. Conan the Barbarian, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Fascinating stuff. Quite apart from the scientific interest, there's a rich vein of material here that could be mined for a historical fantasy setting.
Are you familiar with Martin Sweatman's suggestion that Gobekli Tepe was a record of a cometary assault on the Earth? Obviously that's considered fringe in archeology, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on that speculation.
They honored the dead by removing the skull. Later groups put the other dried bones in a circular building. Its part of the early bird religion. Fascinating discovery
Gobeli Tepe is a library a star map showing the eqinoxes and solstices that came before the Ice Age Dryad period that shoved all the living into the levant. The Germans have many of the gigantic T shaped maps to protect them from ISIS. Gobeli Tepe should be a world heritage site but not going happen in a war torn region
Excellent piece. I've read about these things in isolation at different times, but it's great to have them brought into context so I can start to wrap my head around them in relationship to one another. Look forward to Part 2.
I came because I wanted to ask how to send you an email to ask about the Cormac McCarthy piece you did for Issue 4 of Man's World. I stayed because you are always worth reading. Speaking of McCarthy, in reading this I couldn't help but thin of the epigraph from Blood Meridian, " a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skill found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped." Anyway, is there a way to email or DM you?
Skull cults, human sacrifice, ritual de-fleshing of victims? Once again, it looks like Robert E. Howard is turning out to be a better guide to human history than the hippie anthropologist who taught me back in the 1960's and 70's. Conan the Barbarian, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Fascinating stuff. Quite apart from the scientific interest, there's a rich vein of material here that could be mined for a historical fantasy setting.
Are you familiar with Martin Sweatman's suggestion that Gobekli Tepe was a record of a cometary assault on the Earth? Obviously that's considered fringe in archeology, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on that speculation.
They honored the dead by removing the skull. Later groups put the other dried bones in a circular building. Its part of the early bird religion. Fascinating discovery
Gobeli Tepe is a library a star map showing the eqinoxes and solstices that came before the Ice Age Dryad period that shoved all the living into the levant. The Germans have many of the gigantic T shaped maps to protect them from ISIS. Gobeli Tepe should be a world heritage site but not going happen in a war torn region
Excellent piece. I've read about these things in isolation at different times, but it's great to have them brought into context so I can start to wrap my head around them in relationship to one another. Look forward to Part 2.
Just found out my Amhara tribe of Abyssinia is ~40% Natufian-like (Stone Age West Asian), ~10% Bronze Age West Asian, and ~50% Nilotic.
Great piece! Looking forward to part 2, and hoping there will be a part 3 where you compare New World skull cults.
I came because I wanted to ask how to send you an email to ask about the Cormac McCarthy piece you did for Issue 4 of Man's World. I stayed because you are always worth reading. Speaking of McCarthy, in reading this I couldn't help but thin of the epigraph from Blood Meridian, " a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skill found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped." Anyway, is there a way to email or DM you?