... Re: Göbekli Tepe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe Since the site begins with Neolithic and may have its origins in Mesolithic, it would be...
well, if it is c. 9,000 to 11,000 BC then by definition it is prediluvian, because you can only push those begats and the The Flood so far back with tweaking...
... prediluvian, ... These 9000 to 11,000 BC dates assume the validity of C14 and other methods of dating. I don't make that assumption. ... then ... ...
Towns also grew up around western orders. Benedictines among others were famous for turning wilderness into farmland, and towns grew up in those areas. Shalom...
... were ... those ... But is there any evidence of religious orders (even remotely comparable to the Benedictines) in the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods? I...
I agree there weren't religious orders, but it is not that religion, as a rule created urbanization, but rather, that there are occasions where this has...
Mary, You asked, "Does anyone know about the Delphic Oracle and the healing grotto ascribed to asclepias, .......some electrochemical peculiarities ..... . . ....
You are quite right. Monasticism in the west and middle east is either Christian or Jewish (and that is if you count the Essenes as monastic.) Shalom...
well, perennial water and maybe some now defunct natural phenomenon of use, would fit the Delphi profile. And Delphi would be a non Yahwehist precedent IF in...
I am not suggesting there was a pagan monasticism. Nor that religious centers were the start of settled life in all cases. Rather that since it HAS happened,...
I think Delphi is a good example that it CAN happen. But when I was in Egypt studying the founding of The Old Kingdom it was obvious that a change in the...
I tend to view these monastic orders as military units which were (for the most part) placed upon well established trails / roads, etc. These orders were for...
Yep, but I'll be back Friday. BTW, I've ordered Bernard Newgrosh's new book, Chronology at the Crossroads. It looks like it's going to be good. You can get...
5. Life in the Mesolithic Marjorie & C.H.B. Quennell wrote some excellent little books on various epochs of history. In their first 1921 edition of Every Day...
. Mesolithic Europe. In a recent book, Mesolithic Europe, several scholars discuss the Mesolithic stage in European prehistory. (See, eds., Geoff Bailey & ...
Hi all, I've been reading several books lately. Peter James's *Sunken Kingdom* which is about the legendary Atlantis. As always, James offers some valuable...
Plato's account specifiically addrsses/discounts that because he says that it was convenient that it was not just a fictional ideal model (operative fiction)...
Hi Sean, I have to admit I don't really understand what it is your are asking in your post. However, I've continued to read Peter James' book *The Sunken ...
The fact that Plato's "9000 years" works if you consider it to be 900 years (a'la scribal error) and Atlantis to be Minoan Create is very compelling. 900 years...
Only my first bloc/paragraph was about Atlantis, the other was asking for more info about James/Newgrosh & similar scholars. My article/posts that I gave links...
... 900 years (a'la scribal error) and Atlantis to be Minoan Create is very compelling. 900 years and Minoan Crete fits like a glove. 9000years and "The middle...
Gene: I would read the books myself if I didn't have (personal) problems accessing them. Vern/Gene: Mavor's 9000 years as 900 years, and Spanuth's 9000yrs = ...
I wonder if Peter James is influenced by Lyndon LaRouche, this supposed conflict between the heirs of Plato and of Aristotle, with Plato the good guy and...
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