The Natufians were a Late Epi-Paleolithic culture, who occupied the Levant in Western Asia from around 15000 to 11500 years …
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The Natufians were a Late Epi-Paleolithic culture, who occupied the Levant in Western Asia from around 15000 to 11500 years …
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I find the severed foot to be interestingly strange.
only a russian abroriginal medicine person is called a shaman others are called by their native language
Ive always thought it was pronounced sh-AH-man. Oh well 🤷♂️
In am not for the shaman hypothesis. In my opinion archeologists always link their findings to religion. Of course the woman was buried with richer objects than the rest but the explanation could be just that she was a rarely old woman, probably the mother, grandmother and even grand grandmother of most of the members of the tribe. Because of her age, she could have been admired and respected for her wisdom. Therefore, when she died, the tribe was extremely upset because they lost their most important person of the group. Tortoises could have been captured along time, not all together in the same moment. They could have belonged to each of the members of the tribe and they buried them with the woman as gifts for the afterlife, a way that the woman could have had a souvenir of her huge family. The eagle wing, the bore leg and the ox tail could be precious items for them, protection objects in afterlife that were only offered to those that deserved them due to the status as grandmother, important hunter, a hero…
Another fascinating video. Thanks.
One assumption you make I disagree with. 50 Tortoise' are simply too many to be wild caught I would think it more likely kept breeding pairs or at least "Ranched" them similar to salmon ranching. at the verry least they probably protected the nests from predators.
I can almost hear a grandmother amazing her grandchildren by telling them that the tribe had had the same (breeder/s ?) for four generations, no wander they where linked with immortality.
The various objects were probably used for divining.
That foot. I have a lot of questions and I doubt we have many answers 😂
These sites are a fascinating look at the lifestyles of our ancestors. Thanks Matt!
When a britt must ask a usa's translator how to properly pronounce a word in English you know the world is gone to shit.
It's got to be the compition of the various archiologist or what weve been lead to believe caused our existence, mean a God did it some 6 plus thousand year's ago; Is to the N-th degree, total bullshit.
The go to book for Christian's is their Bible, which is considerably younger than the book the Jewish people utilize. Regardless of the age of either, both were written by "MAN". The only difference is the Jewish book, is older than the Christian book. But both compared to the various scientist referred to as archiologist are considerably younger that the data the scientist who seem to be in compition just as the two book's are when attempting to convince those who fund them do.
A Jew according to thier book's put in place various rules, regulation's and law's governing how a good Jew must live their lives. A millenium later, Christian's, who had nothing but the various edited version's over the millenium's, simply copied the various part's they liked and in a sense referred to as plagorism. Came up with their own book. Which contained far less rule's, regualation's and law's governing how a chirishian must live their lives. But then the various seemingly archiologist who can't seem to agree on the various date's. All of them regardless of continuity in regard's to their various time lines. Are several millenium's older than both the Jewish and Christian book's, when it comes to just how human's in genereal, came to be.
There are only a few hundred archiologist but then there are more when including any and all of the only three monolith belief in a singe "GOD" doing eveything, number well over 1,200 separate and different sect's, faction's and denomination's. Though the archiologist inform us how we may have existed meaning how we lived our live's prior to any form of religion. The more than 1,200 separate and different sect's, faction's and denomination's. All mandate slightly different but different neverless way's one is to live their life,
With there being so many supposedly expert's envolved in archiology informing us how we actually lived prior to their being a religion. And the more than 1.200 religious group;s of individual's all stateing in ever so slightly different way one is supposed to live our lives. It's not a wonder there are those of us, who choose none of the above when it comes to religion and state in no uncertain alphbetical, numerical and categorical term's. There isn't a "GOD" or "GOD". But there is to the N-th degree, ignorance which is well known and accepted as factual when it cause's bliss.
Tis my belief there isn't a 'GOD" or "GOD'S", but the belief in there being either when ignorant, causes one to be in various degree's solist. Which then I've no issue with. But then it's not enough that their belief which gives them personally solist, believe to the N-th degree it will give me and everyone else solist and perform in a vast and numerious ways, the constant, never ending evangelizing of their personal belief. If it were not for the constant bombardment of evangelizing, no one would know of their being so much as one let alone the million's there are, who are referred to as Atheist.
Tis ironic how someone doesn't have an issue with my desire for Strawberry ice cream being better than Vanilla. Ford is better than Chevorlette. Red vs Blue etc. etc. etc. But when it come's to the vast and numberious choice's in a realigion vs none of them. They can and will and have over the millium's killed million's of other human's over their personal coviction's in regard's to which of the more than today's number being over 1,200 is the one and only. There's been numerious war's regarding various religion's, which have killed million's of human's over the millium's. But there hasn't been one ever started based entirely on Atheism.
Very informative and respectfully explained. I enjoy your reports very much. Thank you for that.
It could have been a line in that old Billie Holiday song: "You say shah-man and I say shay-man" — but the former sounds more akin to the original word in the Altai language of Tunguska, which incidentally means simply "man of knowledge".
Im not saying i know the answer, but we dont know this is 12,000 yo. Not one clue.
Great video, but what's up with the illustration at 1:22? Some of the animals in the backgrounds doesn't seem to have any heads. One of them even seems to have two pairs of hind-legs.
This is thin simulation run by AM6 laptop.
Nothingn more. Those "findings" are just put there to find.
Just an odd thought, tortoise shells were used in ancient China to generate I-Ching predictions
Take a good look at the floors and The ston3 Foundations of their hut. Does it remind you of anything the shapes how well they all fit so closely together may not be a wall but having those skill way back then sure the skills just got better and better
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I want to paint a possible scenario here. If it contradicts known knowledge, please tell me.
Stone age people had places where clans from hundreds of kilometers distance came to on certain occasions for a couple of purposes. A wedding market, religious rituals, whatever. The Natufians built stone markers on those meeting places but seemingly did not live at those places constantly. Or only a small shaman elite, while the rest of the clans went back to their seasonal living places elsewhere. Typically each clan has a totem animal for identification and properties that were important to them. Thus the animal carvings on the stones at the meeting points. Now to the burial of that shaman. The body parts of so many animals could be a sign that she was appreciated by many clans as important person. Maybe a chief of the chiefs, an early sign for a political/religious order, early sign of a modern society beyond a single clan. In early historical times a political leader often was also a religious leader. Pharaos in egypt are supposed to connected to the gods by family bonds… Even roman emperors got worshipped as gods, shamans . In the Natufian case it might be that religious leaders grew into the role of political leaders with growing population, we might never know the order of things for them. There might also be a shift from animistic/shamanistic believes where everything in the world is spirited to a late shamanistic/modern believe in gods with certain powers so as weather, fertility, etc. When shamans who are in the center of different clans and their believe systems, they might come up with a different concept that fits all. That would be an interesting topic for some books, to be honest.
It's Shaaaa man!
Wander if they were farming turtles haha. That is alot to search for.
Fascinating
The shape of the grave and the position of the woman also resembles a baby in the womb. As if the woman was laid to rest in a manner that in a sense prepared her for rebirth.
Typically, a tortoise shell has 13 plates. American Indian cultures have a saying about time, that it is "thirteen moons on turtle's back," so that turtles are often used, symbolically, to mark the passage of years. Consider the possibility that the tortoise shells are a significant number–potentially, the number of years old this woman was. Shaman drew their "magic" from being able to control any of the five elements–water, fire, air, earth, and time (sometimes called "ether"). Perhaps this woman was particularly gifted with telling time or with predicting what would be available in certain places at certain times. Learning to gauge the passage of time, even in places where the sun's length does not change as drastically as it does closer to the poles, would have been a valuable skill in itself.
This is 500 times longer ago than the 90's
Has anyone ever speculated whether the Natufians were matriarchal or patriarchal? While no one can say for sure just what those grave goods symbolize. In some scenarios they could represent the qualities of a great or a greatly respected leader. The world, for obvious reasons could use a great leader of this caliper today.
The rise of the priest in human pre-history is a very interesting subject. Normally the competition among clan members was physical. Physical less fit but clever persons started to find another route to power and respect. Being the intermediate between man and the gods.
Please, tell us about fox in natufian life
They can had a turtle farm and The village can been 50 People,
Thank you for another video, exceptional in content and delivery.
Meters don’t tell anybody anything.
Thank you and algo's
At least we can tell Aliens never came around 12700 years ago
The verbal noise is that noise not intelligence to teach and explain
So many thanks for your content, informative, very interesting. And I must say never boring.
Still waiting for you to talk like a normal human being
Still waiting for you to talk like a normal human being
The 1st man did not evolve from hominids. But modern human evolved from the 1st man.
"stones were placed…. Or to hold her in the grave" monkaS! Vampire!
The turtle shells might be for the sacral deformation she had. As the shell is as a solid spine for the turtle. A Shaman usually had at least one major noticeable defect to be considered legit. 'Some' what we might call a defect, was considered a sign of being altered by a God(s) or other worldly quality. The entertaining ones are the ones that alter some after puberty.
Still promoting this Israel centric model as the biblical birthplace of civilization:…. You are becoming increasing irrelevant. Amazing how you’ve embraced 10,000 years of human history which you’ve rejected for 15 years yourself. I have to block you, ban you, or discontinue seeing your feed somehow:
Eating turtles…..disgusting. Don't give me any crap about that's what they did back then. Just no.
Logic with dictate the tortoise shells were fucking bowls
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I have to say, over the last couple of years, You just keep getting better and better!
Thank You sincerely from one
Matt to another, Cheers!