Re: [tied] Schela Cladovei

----- Original Message -----
From: "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Schela Cladovei


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> > > Over 9000 years ago, on the
> danube, it was here that "the first dwellings of Europe were built,
> the first inhabitants were buried, the first vegetables were raised
> and the first surgical operations were performed. The first works of
> art were also created here."
> >
> > The above is sheer nonsense. Pre-Neolithic Europeans made rather
> solid huts, buried their dead, had well-developed arts (as
> represented by Palaeolithic figurines and cave paintings) and were
> capable of performing surgical operations (probably including skull
> trepanation that didn't kill the patient).
>
> I have cited the URL.
>
> What is the pre-neolithic evidence to claim that this is nonsense?

For example:

Palaeolithic art: -- Numerous "Venus" figurines (Willendorf etc.) and engraved mammoth tusks ca. 30,000-25,000 BC. Cave paintings (Chauvet, etc.) from ca. 30,000-20,000 BC onwards, till the end of the Pleistocene. Do you really need to be told about them?

Dwellings: -- Huts of Aurignacian mammoth hunters in Central Europe already before 20,000 BC.

Mesolithic surgery: -- Evidence of healed trepanation holes from Ukraine, earlier than 7000 BC.

Piotr