#Archaeology: Did #Plants #Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement' [video]

By Regina Sobel on January 26, 2023

"Those who study places like #Çatalhöyük see a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics. Ceren Kabukçu, an archaeobotanist who researches ancient plant specimens, explains how a random mutation in wild wheat produced characteristics that pleased early farmers so much that they selected those plants over and over again until the mutated plants became domesticated. But it didn’t end there. The domesticated wheat evolved to such a degree that it could no longer reproduce without the aid of human hands. Much of what we eat today is rooted in this codependency."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/did-plants-domesticate-humans-watch-the-first-entanglement/

#Farming #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany #Archaeology #Histodon #History #Catalhoyuk

‘Well how did we come to this then?’
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/20-jun-23-angela-saini-and-the-compelling-question-of-male-dominations-dominance/

#AngelaSaini #ThePatriarchs #patriarchy #neolithic #Çatalhöyük #theState #blog

Life network on wall at Catalhoyik dating between 7100 to 5700 BCE.

These early net illustrations at #Catalhoyuk and at Göbekli Tepe Pillar 43 are generally ignored by everyone because they are not understood. The alphabetic #Akkadian texts coming out of this European #Neolithic farmer culture are now being read and they often refer to a network which is used to distribute a fluid for triggering the manifestation of life forms on earth.

This was a time when deities were not yet perceived as human-like lords but were instead perceived as clusters of divine powers which could be personified if needed. All change on earth was due to some divine/spiritual power. This was a very magickal culture.

#archaeology #Pagan #magick #ancienthistory #network

Also: Remember our slain #CatalHöyük #aurochs? https://t.co/pC9gXTbKiX

Finally, and this convinces me that we might read at least the left part of this #Sayburc depiction as #hunting scene, there are these interesting things called #ThrowingSticks.

With quite similar depictions again coming from #Catalhöyük.

http://revedeboomerang.free.fr/Master%20thesis%20-%20Throwing%20sticks%20-Luc%20Bordes2014.pdf

With the difference that in #CatalHöyük a group of people is depicted w/ an apparently *slain* #aurochs.

Its characteristic features (note the head: not any longer presenting horns (and danger), legs bend, tongue out) also known from #GobekliTepe's P66:

https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/03/02/the-death-of-an-aurochs-gobekli-tepe-pillar-66-enclosure-h

But again it is this combination of powerful animal (here an #aurochs, able to put up a fight) and human which makes the whole scene so interesting - and extraordinarily fascinating.

Somehow reminding of that famous (but a bit later) mural from #Neolithic #CatalHöyük ...

It looks more like idiots and morons have negotiated at #COP27..
The #politicians and #lobbyists agreed to a loss and damage fund.

But they did NOT agree to take genuine action to keep within 1.5°C global temperature rise. With the outcome of this COP27 we reach 2.8 degrees, no problem.
Thats the global average, but for instance in #Europe it will be twice as high, lethal #heatwaves, #drought #famine #flashfloods will come our way.

Now put your mind to work.

In the very near #future the loss and damage costs will soon be impossible to pay.
So very soon they will exceed the ability of any country to pay for them."
Insurance companies will not cover the costs of disasters, it will be impossible for them to pay the damages.
So we are on the road to nowhere.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateChaos

Look at our own #history, how many #civilisations got lost because they didn't take necessary measures to survive or thrive?
Lost Civilisations #Maya · #Khmer empire #Indus civilization #EasterIsland · #Çatalhöyük #MU
reasons they disappeared;
#War, #famine, #climate change, #verpopulation are just some of the reasons ancient civilizations have disappeared

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2022/nov/19/cop27-fears-15c-target-danger-negotiations-overrun-live

It looks more like idiots and morons have negotiated at #COP27..
The #politicians and #lobbyists agreed to a loss and damage fund.

But they did NOT agree to take genuine action to keep within 1.5°C global temperature rise. With the outcome of this COP27 we reach 2.8 degrees, no problem.
Thats the global average, but for instance in #Europe it will be twice as high, lethal #heatwaves, #drought #famine #flashfloods will come our way.

Now put your mind to work.

In the very near #future the loss and damage costs will soon be impossible to pay.
So very soon they will exceed the ability of any country to pay for them."
Insurance companies will not cover the costs of disasters, it will be impossible for them to pay the damages.
So we ar on the road to nowhere.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateChaos

Look at our own #history, how many #civilisations got lost because they didn't take necessary measures to survive or thrive?
Lost Civilisations #Maya · #Khmer empire #Indus civilization #EasterIsland · #Çatalhöyük #MU
reasons they disappeared;
#War, #famine, #climate change, #verpopulation are just some of the reasons ancient civilizations have disappeared

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2022/nov/19/cop27-fears-15c-target-danger-negotiations-overrun-live

Even more interesting is apparent evidence for #delayed #burials at #Catalhöyük - and the description of special treatment of bodies to keep them in anatomical position (e.g. by wrapping bundles etc.):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289525849_Living_above_the_Dead_Intramural_Burial_practices_at_Catalhoyuk#fullTextFileContent

#Neolithic #Catalhöyük (also Turkey) does indeed as well show a noteworthy complexity of #funerary ritual.

In this context in particularly interesting is the removal of #skulls from #burials, their #replastering and #circulation among the settlement.

This and the practice of '#secondary' (i.e. re-) burial seems a particular phenomenon of the later phases pf occupation at #Catalhöyük:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318042962_Skull_Retrieval_and_Secondary_Burial_Practices_in_the_Neolithic_Near_East_Recent_Insights_from_Catalhoyuk_Turkey

The complex #PPN #iconography adds to this. A recurring motive at #Neolithic sites like e.g. #GöbekliTepe, #CatalHöyük and others are depictions of birds (in particular: #vultures) as well as separated human heads - or headless bodies:

https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/05/17/a-separated-head-between-animals-on-a-stone-slab-from-goebekli-tepe