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- ferruleAlways assumed those scattered bones were just, well, scattered. It's cool how a new understanding of burial practices provides such a neat explanation.
- MadrasTh0rnWas subfloor burial common in Neolithic?
- itopaloglu83Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.
- culiMore evidence for David Graeber and David Wengrow's reading of the site.Between Göbekli Tepe, Poverty Point, Cahokia, and other sites we have pretty good evidence of complex urban societies that did not rely on agriculture. And even in these few sites we have abundant evidence of diversity of social structures from radically egalitarian to hierarchicalThe linear narrative of the evolution of human societies is dead
- moron4hireAnd how is this going to help a team of crack scientists at The Smithsonian solve a modern day murder while also navigating the difficulties of having an intimate social life as a professional in DC?
- jamesforestwestThat's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
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