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Bonzo the Cat
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Edited Mar 06, 2010, 09:19
Oldest temple in the world (built 11,500 years ago) dug up in Turkey
Mar 06, 2010, 08:04
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844

yeah, this is what I call a funky excavation:

"The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed."

arf!
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