2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

(theartnewspaper.com)

24 points | by speckx 5 days ago

3 comments

  • dyauspitr 22 minutes ago
    I guess it’s unrelated to this particular find but is Turkey now the place where civilization first started or Gobekli Tepe and the other similar sites are not considered civilizations at this point?
    • mc32 8 minutes ago
      I think you need evidence of a system of government, agriculture, culture, laws to dispense justice predictably and a writing system to track and record aspects of the above. Hence we can have Egyptian, Indus, etc., but not prehistoric civilizations. The human organizations just didn’t have enough progress to be considered civilized. Thats not to say they were not advanced vis a vis their other contemporaries but rather didn’t meet certain milestones that mark a civilization.
      • MomsAVoxell 1 minute ago
        A distinctly Western European perspective.

        I would rate Narwala Gabarnmang as one of the earliest sites of civilization, personally.

  • heyitsmedotjayb 54 minutes ago
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