Thursday, April 29, 2021
Standard assumption
From New Superstitionist, a fascinating and worthy piece of archeology is spoiled by the usual unnecessary assumptions.
A vast site in north-west Saudi Arabia is home to 1000 structures that date back more than 7000 years, making them older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge in the UK. Named after the Arabic word for rectangle, mustatil structures were first discovered in the 1970s, but received little attention from researchers at the time. Using helicopters to fly over north-west Saudi Arabia and then following up with ground explorations, the researchers found more than 1000 mustatils across 200,000 square kilometres – twice as many as were previously thought to exist in this area.That's about 250 by 250 miles in real measure, or roughly a county.
Made from piled-up blocks of sandstone, some of which weighed more than 500 kilograms, mustatils ranged from 20 metres to more than 600 metres in length, but their walls stood only 1.2 metres high. “It’s not designed to keep anything in, but to demarcate the space that is clearly an area that needs to be isolated,” says Thomas. In a typical mustatil, long walls surround a central courtyard, with a distinctive rubble platform, or “head”, at one end and entryways at the opposite end. Some entrances were blocked by stones, suggesting they could have been decommissioned after use.Sounds like a market square or mall. An area where traders and butchers and food vendors could set up their stalls. The walls and constrained entrance helped to police the area and avoid raids by gangs. The shape also suggests a loading pen or corral for cattle, perhaps with slaughter in the 'head' chamber.
Excavations at one mustatil showed that the centre of the head contained a chamber within which there were fragments of cattle horns and skulls. The cattle fragments may have been presented as offerings, suggesting mustatils may have been used for rituals."Fragments of cattle" suggests food processing, not rituals. Modern "scientists" are so deeply religious in their own satanic way that they can't imagine TRULY SECULAR people and institutions. Plain old business for profit. Everything must be religion, and all non-Gaian and non-Viran religions are cults. If scientists would just stick to carefully observing and measuring stuff, they'd be a lot more credible and a LOT LESS GENOCIDAL. OCKHAM! OCKHAM! OCKHAM! ¶ 10:15 PM
