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Post by zarahan on Mar 12, 2012 0:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by zarahan on Mar 12, 2012 2:43:28 GMT -5
Megaliths in Africa
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"After 70,000 BCE Africans used the 'natural bridge' of the Sinai peninsula to walk to west Asia, where, at Har Karkom, they used flint stone tools "of African type of upper and middle paleolithic epochs' [Anati 1996] to incise the upright and smoothed megaliths that resemble the human body. Similar to modern art, incisions on the megaliths suggest an eye, a mouth or nostrils.. Megaliths of Har Karkom precede (by eons of time) megalith structures of Malta, Great Britain and elsewhere." megalith structures." .. Anati's [1996] interpretation of the African origin of this earliest sanctuary in the world resonates with contemporary audiences: in 1997, his film "Har Karkom: Mountain of God?" won first prize at the international archeological film festival at ROvereto, Italy."
"In light of DNA evidence of prehistoric migration out of Africa into West Asia, the 40,000 BCE sanctuary of Har Karkom probably constitutes the first megalith grouping in the world. ..The 40,000 BCE sanctuary of Har Karkom in the Sinai are much older than megaliths of Malta (After 3800 BCE) than megaliths of Stonehenge (2300 BCE), than temples of Crete (2000 BCE)"(2300 BCE)"
FROM: --Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. 2001. Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers
Anati citation:--Anati, Cottinelli and Mailland 1996. "Il santuario piu' antico del mondo," Archeologia Viva, marzo/aprile, 1996, 29.
"The Central African Republic, on the other hand, possesses quite spectacular megaliths in the Bouar region. This has yielded some important dates, one group lying in the lowest strata of the monuments: 7440 +/- 170 b.b, that is 5490 before our era.. we cannot be certain where the Bouar megaliths should be placed in the Neolithic period but the culture which erected them can at least be said to be contemporary with the Neolithic."
--UNESCO General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory. 1981
"In some parts of Africa megaliths survive which are somewhat reminiscent of Stonehenge. Hundreds of them are to be found in the borderland between Cameroon and Central African Republic. They are thought to be memorials, but contain no human remains, and were made by cultivators during the first millennium BCE. That they had the energy and resources to cut, transport and erect stones so large that they posed a danger to modern excavators shows the strength the religious or other beliefs which inspired them. It also reflects a culture which could afford this type of extravagance"
Elizabeth Allo Isichei - 1997. A History of African Societies to 1870
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Post by anansi on Mar 12, 2012 5:12:38 GMT -5
Megaliths in Africaquotes: "After 70,000 BCE Africans used the 'natural bridge' of the Sinai peninsula to walk to west Asia, where, at Har Karkom, they used flint stone tools "of African type of upper and middle paleolithic epochs' [Anati 1996] to incise the upright and smoothed megaliths that resemble the human body. Similar to modern art, incisions on the megaliths suggest an eye, a mouth or nostrils.. Megaliths of Har Karkom precede (by eons of time) megalith structures of Malta, Great Britain and elsewhere." megalith structures." .. Anati's [1996] interpretation of the African origin of this earliest sanctuary in the world resonates with contemporary audiences: in 1997, his film "Har Karkom: Mountain of God?" won first prize at the international archeological film festival at ROvereto, Italy."
"In light of DNA evidence of prehistoric migration out of Africa into West Asia, the 40,000 BCE sanctuary of Har Karkom probably constitutes the first megalith grouping in the world. ..The 40,000 BCE sanctuary of Har Karkom in the Sinai are much older than megaliths of Malta (After 3800 BCE) than megaliths of Stonehenge (2300 BCE), than temples of Crete (2000 BCE)"(2300 BCE)"FROM: --Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. 2001. Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers Anati citation:--Anati, Cottinelli and Mailland 1996. "Il santuario piu' antico del mondo," Archeologia Viva, marzo/aprile, 1996, 29. "The Central African Republic, on the other hand, possesses quite spectacular megaliths in the Bouar region. This has yielded some important dates, one group lying in the lowest strata of the monuments: 7440 +/- 170 b.b, that is 5490 before our era.. we cannot be certain where the Bouar megaliths should be placed in the Neolithic period but the culture which erected them can at least be said to be contemporary with the Neolithic." --UNESCO General History of Africa: Methodology and African prehistory. 1981
"In some parts of Africa megaliths survive which are somewhat reminiscent of Stonehenge. Hundreds of them are to be found in the borderland between Cameroon and Central African Republic. They are thought to be memorials, but contain no human remains, and were made by cultivators during the first millennium BCE. That they had the energy and resources to cut, transport and erect stones so large that they posed a danger to modern excavators shows the strength the religious or other beliefs which inspired them. It also reflects a culture which could afford this type of extravagance" Elizabeth Allo Isichei - 1997. A History of African Societies to 1870 Interesting also is the hesitation by some anthropologist to call the Natufian complex of a civilization Gebeki Tepe for instance. |
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