Eldorado Posted February 26, 2021 #1 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Around 6200 years ago, farmers living on the eastern fringes of Europe, in what is now Ukraine, did something inexplicable. They left their neolithic villages and moved into a sparsely inhabited area of forest and steppe. There, in an area roughly the size of Belgium between the modern cities of Kiev and Odessa, they congregated at new settlements up to 20 times the size of their old ones. This enigmatic culture, known as the Cucuteni-Trypillia, predates the earliest known cities in Mesopotamia, a civilisation that spanned part of the Middle East, and in China. It persisted for 800 years, but then, as mysteriously as it had begun, this experiment in civilisation failed. Full article at the New Scientist: Link 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted February 26, 2021 #2 Share Posted February 26, 2021 21 minutes ago, Eldorado said: .t persisted for 800 years, but then, as mysteriously as it had begun, this experiment in civilisation failed. Maybe they disappeared like the civilisations of Maya and Incas? Due to climate changes, and a great droughts that caused the dissappearance of water sources? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted February 26, 2021 #3 Share Posted February 26, 2021 2 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: Maybe they disappeared like the civilisations of Maya and Incas? Due to climate changes, and a great droughts that caused the dissappearance of water sources? THe Maya and Incas did not disappear, the Pope Greg's warrior preists disappeared them. The Anazazi in the SW U.S. did not disappear, they moved to new pueblos along the river because of drought. Those people did not disappear either, they moved, probably because of weather or other environmental conditions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted February 27, 2021 #4 Share Posted February 27, 2021 12 hours ago, Eldorado said: Around 6200 years ago, farmers living on the eastern fringes of Europe, in what is now Ukraine, did something inexplicable. They left their neolithic villages and moved into a sparsely inhabited area of forest and steppe. There, in an area roughly the size of Belgium between the modern cities of Kiev and Odessa, they congregated at new settlements up to 20 times the size of their old ones. This enigmatic culture, known as the Cucuteni-Trypillia, predates the earliest known cities in Mesopotamia, a civilisation that spanned part of the Middle East, and in China. It persisted for 800 years, but then, as mysteriously as it had begun, this experiment in civilisation failed. Full article at the New Scientist: Link "a civilisation that spanned part of the Middle East, and in China." ?? I'd like to see proof of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperionxvii Posted February 27, 2021 #5 Share Posted February 27, 2021 11 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: Maybe they disappeared like the civilisations of Maya and Incas? Due to climate changes, and a great droughts that caused the dissappearance of water sources? No, climate change was impossible then, no one drove SUVs powered by fossil fuels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperionxvii Posted February 27, 2021 #6 Share Posted February 27, 2021 7 minutes ago, Abramelin said: "a civilisation that spanned part of the Middle East, and in China." ?? I'd like to see proof of that. I have to check this out, never heard about it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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