Mysterious 6,000-year-old Fortresses Found in Jordan Show Surprisingly Advanced Early Society

[Sophocles]

Mysterious 6,000-year-old Fortresses Found in Jordan Show Surprisingly Advanced Early Society (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.742318)

Philippe Bohstrom
haaretz.com
Sep 16, 2016 6:54 PM

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Aerial view of Khirbet Abu al-Husayn, JordanMatthew Neale Dalton / APAAME

Excavations in the volcanic desert of Jordan (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.706066) have uncovered three surprisingly advanced fortified settlements with artificially irrigated terraced gardens, dating to 6,000 years ago.

The remains of the fortified settlements were discovered atop hills at the edge of North-eastern Jordan´s scorched volcanic desert, close to the Syrian border. Radiocarbon dates date its era between 4000 and 3500 B.C.E., about 1000 years before the pyramids.

The discovery came as a surprise, since nothing like this old has been found in the inhospitable depths of the Jordan desert, a place that had been considered uninhabitable by primitive society.

Jawa, a fortified site from the 4th millennium B.C.E discovered earlier at the western edge of the region, had been considered to be the most eastern located settlement of the early Bronze Age in the region, Dr. Bernd Müller-Neuhof, head of the excavation project, told Haaretz. Now three others found deeper in the desert, and possibly older, are under study.

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Section of the double-face fortification wall in JawaB. Müller-Neuhof / Dai-Orientabteilung

The discovery of developed three hilltop settlements with fortification walls and stone houses in the rocky, barren area of Khirbet abu al-Husayn, Khirbet al-Ja’bariya and Tulul al-Ghusayn and evidence of well-watered gardens, indicates that a highly developed society had settled in the eastern basalt desert of Jordan around the late 5th to 4th millennium B.C.E. But who they were, and where they came from, remains a mystery.

These fortified settlements may be the earliest of their kind in the Levant or even all of Southwest Asia, the archaeologist heading the study suggests.

The inhabitants of these settlements were not the first people using this region, Müller-Neuhof adds. There is evidence of temporary hunter-herder camps during the Neolithic era (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.712676). Nonetheless, this is the first evidence of year-round occupation of at least some of the sites, which were first discovered during surveys in the area of north-eastern Jordan by the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute between 2010 and 2015.

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The Ramla al-Jabariya Hillfort: Farming terraces can be seen descending from fortified walls of a 6,000-year old settlement, possibly the first of its kind. Robert Howard Bewley / APAAME

Six years of subsequent research revealed much previously unexpected evidence of elaborate socioeconomic activity in the region, including extensive flint mining and advanced agricultural techniques.

Protecting the scarce resource: Water

Since the area had no regular source of water, the inhabitants engineered a sophisticated system of diverting locally occurring precipitation into terraced gardens, where they saturated sediments for agricultural purposes. Water for consumption was most probably obtained by digging wells in wadi beds and by using lava caves as natural cisterns.

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Not a hospitable place, yet permanent settlements were built here some 6,000 years ago: The surface of the basalt desert in north-eastern Jordan. B. Müller-Neuhof / Dai-Orientabteilung

One settlement with fortification walls and simple dwelling structures, discovered at the foot of a volcanic hill and on the hill itself, featured terraced gardens that were watered using sophisticated irrigation systems fed by rainwater run-off. The evidence indicates that the terraces were used to farm grain. Grinding stones for grain were also discovered in the settlements, in association with the houses.

Older than the well-known field irrigation systems in Mesopotamia, these terraces may be the earliest example of irrigation farming using artificially harvested rainwater.

A 2011 survey identified similar terraced gardens at Jawa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawa,_Jordan) as well, Müller-Neuhof says.

The archaeologists also found evidence of flint mining and flint tool mass production east of the basalt desert, which might have been related to the settlement activities on the volcanoes.

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Excavated dwelling in Tulul al-Ghusayn with grinding slabs in situ. B. Muller-Neuhof / Dai-Orientabteilung

Why the inhabitants decided to settle in this arid desert region remains a puzzle. Who they might have been is also unknown. The mysterious inhabitants left few traces.

At Jawa, signs of conflict in the walls have been discovered, areas where walls had been battered down and rebuilt. Some think water-hungry nomads of the deserts may have clashed with the immigrants that build the cities over control of the water.

Writing hadn't been invented yet and there is no clue as to the inhabitants' name. Theoretically, their origin might be elucidated by finding similarities, if any, with flint tool assemblages, pottery or other clues in well-known sedentary cultures in the southern Levant and Mesopotamia, Müller-Neuhof explains. However, no clear clues have surfaced yet.

Alternatively, the inhabitants may have been indigenous, deriving from the people who lived in the region during the Late Neolithic.

The discoveries advance our understanding of the earliest cultural development in Mesopotamia and the southern Levant, the birthplace of modern civilization. The 4th millennium B.C.E. was a crucial period in the history of old world civilization, as cultural evolutionary processes began that would enable the development of complex cultures, Among these processes were the beginning of urbanization, the invention of artificial irrigation, mass production of commodities, long-distance trade, and the invention of the precursors of writing and economic administration. The new discoveries move a region hitherto unknown and regarded as peripheral into the focus of research on this crucial period.

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Aerial view of the garden terraces in the crater of the Tulul al-Ghusayn volcano.Robert Howard Bewley / APAAME

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Dam built at Jawa 6,000 years ago.B. Müller-Neuhof / Dai-Orientabteilung

Source (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.742318)

[Carmody]

If one follows the earlier situations, it was the Germans, in conjunction with the Iraqis, who were digging up archeological sites -- just before the US invaded Iraq.

Some say the digs in Iraq were the real target of the US invasion. Or at least a second point of a multiheaded hydra of reasoning for the invasion.

Thee is a wealth of data to support such a position. It is fairly complex data to unpack, but it's unfolding is incredibly eye opening.

The starring point is the the Reich command never surrendered at the end of the Second World War (fact!), and the USA and the west is still at war with a multi-national technologically advanced Fascist cause. Who, with insiders (in the USA-fascists, eugenicists, those who financed the Nazis....) help, regained control of Germany quite quickly - after WWII.

[ElfeMya]

This reminds me so much of Michael Tellinger work ( detailed in the Slaves species of Gods, The adam Calendar etc. )... so so much !!!

[Justplain]

One has to question the age these researchers give to these ruins. They quote the age of the pyramids as being 3500 bce, whereas its fairly common knowledge in the alt community that those date atleast seven thousand years older than that. These 'researchers' shoehorn findings into the standard quackademic timeline 'theory' whether it makes sense or not. Case in point, they wonder at how this settlement could have had such advanced, terraced agricultural fields in the inhosptiable Jordanian desert. Well, even mainstream academia acknowledges that the region was much more moist at the end of the last ice age, @10k bce and earlier. Of course, they probably couldnt accept such an ancient time for their dating, so they likely forced the date to fit their 'theory'. One way they can easily do that is to find bio leftovers (for carbon dating) of the nomads who used the place well after it was a ruin (but before it got overwhelmed by the desert), the carbon dating of that would be much more recent than the actual age of the structures when they were originally occupied.

Another case that is ignored by mainstream quackademia is the Bosnian pyramid. They did carbon dating on bio matter on the place and found it to be 25k years old. This has been completely ignored by msm and quackademics.

The list goes on and on of very old, out of place artifacts that have been ignored by mainstream quackademia and the msm. See the work of Michael Cremo and Klaus Donna if you want more details. If you want more info on the ancient Egyptians look up the Pyramid Code on youtube.

[Ernie Nemeth]

There is evidence that suggests that the planet undergoes a cyclical pattern in regards to the complexity of life forms and their subsequent adaptations, beginning with a fundamental base, burgeoning forward in many diverse directions, reaching a peak of advancement, then a rapid decline back to another fundamental base before the eventual climb again. It seems that mankind also follows this cycle, spawning a new advanced civilization that often leaves the bulk of humanity behind and strike out on their own as a new race.

Such logic is sound - even suns spin off their largest planets, and those larger planets gave rise to moons and some of those become the smaller planets and lesser bodies of a solar system. Although this last is not yet common knowledge the next few decades will shed light on solar system formation that will somewhat modify the accepted accretion disk model of today.

What we are seeing in the ruins around the world is the collapse or decline of the previous age. The final downturn in an age that most likely saw the rise of a new race of earth beings, that left the mother world, or at least rose high enough to protect themselves against its most violent upheavals.

We today, are at this same place. We are at, or nearing, the peak of this cycle. Soon it will begin its downturn, some say it has already begun. We are at the cusp of survivability as a species, just shy of the mark to be counted amongst the other races this bountiful mother planet has birthed in her time.

There may already be a clandestine contingent of our species that has actually passed the rest of us in that regard, and become a "star race"(?).

That secret space faring sub-species is probably replete with those Nazis of Carmody's.

[Cardillac]

@Carmody

"Some say the digs in Iraq were the real target of the US invasion"- I woldn't doubt this for a second- somebody somewhere doesn't want us to learn about our past-

I've read the cuniform tablets in the basement/restricted area of the Bagdhad museum were the real targets-

Larry