Apparently there are pit houses and enclosures aplenty in this area, indicating long-term settlement and fortification, despite there not being any crop fields to protect.

This area had subsistence, pottery, innovation, rituals, sociopolitical organization—all the parts of the "Neolithic package", with none of the crops. Apparently crops are not a necessary ingredient to get people to settle down.

We're living through interesting times in archaeology.

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Here are two possibilities. 1. Maybe they're at the extreme end of Corylus avellana's range. 2. Maybe they relied on Vaccinium vitis-idaea. There are a few fruiting plants that they might have defended. The researchers should test for pollen!

@cremieuxrecueil temples preceded agriculture in the fertile crescent and the magnetic polarity thesis in generate predicts it's sedentarism-->agriculture rather than agriculture-->sedentarism

@cremieuxrecueil Inevitable, when H_G want to settle down to farming: .

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@cremieuxrecueil Groundbreaking news

@cremieuxrecueil Paging @SamoBurja

@cremieuxrecueil I am continually astounded that like actual experts who should know better actually think warfare is like an invention and not the human state of nature. Literally all you need for warfare is two groups with a beef Even chimps engage in warfare (at their lower level scale)

@cremieuxrecueil Similar to buildings preceding agriculture at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.

@cremieuxrecueil Probably just a dad defending his daughter’s honor.

@cremieuxrecueil How old?

@cremieuxrecueil humans learned to war before they learned to eat incredible creatures

@cremieuxrecueil Now the question is... what were they fighting 👀

@cremieuxrecueil Eurasia has always been at war with Eurasia

@cremieuxrecueil I wonder if they have any evidence as to long-term, continuous settlement at this site. It could be that the fortification was only occupied during a certain part of the year, a half-step advancement in keeping with a migratory pattern observed in other nomadic peoples.

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@cremieuxrecueil I absolutely HATE how the diagram shows a river that is not in precisely the same orientation in the photograph so you can figure out where everything is. MAXIMUM RAGE.