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Archaeologists Discover the Oldest Known Blueprints
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:13 pm
Photographs show various techniques used for engraving the limestone monolith found in Jordan.
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Stone Age hunters in the Middle East and Central Asia used giant stone structures to trap wild animals. Today, archaeologists refer to these massive constructions as desert kites because of how they look from above—like a kite with several long tails.
Now, in a study published last week in the journal PLOS One, researchers say they have found stone engravings that are accurate, to-scale depictions of desert kites that date to between 7,000 and 8,000 years ago. This makes them the oldest known realistic plans for large, human-made structures, the authors write.
Humans have recreated their surroundings in art forms, including sculptures and paintings, for at least 40,000 years. But what makes the newly found blueprints noteworthy is their precision.
“The amazing discovery is that the plans are to scale,” Rémy Crassard, a co-author of the study and an archaeologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, tells Scientific American’s Tom Metcalfe. The depictions are “constrained by shape, by symmetry and by dimensions,” he adds to the publication. “We had no idea that people at that time were able to do that with such accuracy.”
These diagrams also reveal surprises about Stone Age people’s ability to visualize objects. Desert kites could measure larger than two football fields in size, with some lines of stones stretching more than three miles long. As a result, the complex structures can only be seen in full from the air. While no one at the time would have been able to get this vantage point, the drawings take a bird’s-eye view.
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Desert kites helped capture animals by funneling the creatures through long, stone-lined pathways into a main enclosure, where hunters could kill them or trap them in pits, as Wael Abu-Azizeh, a co-author of the study and an archaeologist at the French Institute of the Near East, tells New Scientist’s Christa Lesté-Lasserre.
For about ten years, the team has used satellite imagery to document more than 6,000 desert kites stretching from the Middle East to Central Asia. As part of this research, archaeologists uncovered two engravings that depicted desert kites in 2015. One was found in the Jibal al-Khashabiyeh region in Jordan, and the other came from the Jebel az-Zilliyat region in Saudi Arabia
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Computer modeling confirmed that the engravings were accurate representations of nearby kites, including the pit traps inside, per New Scientist. “It’s mind-blowing,” Crassard tells the New York Times’ Priyanka Runwal, “to know and to show that they were able to have this mental conceptualization of very large spaces and to put that on a smaller surface.”
The previously oldest known precise depictions of structures are from around 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, per Vice’s Becky Ferreira.
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It remains unclear whether the engravings were used to help plan construction of the kites, held symbolic cultural significance, or had some other purpose. The researchers hypothesize that people could have used the engravings to help position hunters and coordinate capturing animals.
Aerial View of a Kite.
Landscape of Saudi Arabia where the engravings have been found.
Smithsonian LINK
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:15 pm to saint tiger225
Modern day archaeologists are so selfish. They're leaving nothing behind for future archaeologists.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:15 pm to saint tiger225
More and more evidence coming out that human beings were brilliant far earlier than ever believed.
For those interested in this kind of shite, I recommend watching the Ancient Apocalypse docuseries on NF. It's excellent.
For those interested in this kind of shite, I recommend watching the Ancient Apocalypse docuseries on NF. It's excellent.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:17 pm to saint tiger225
How were they able to construct a to-scale project as they did in this case WITHOUT having birds-eye view capabilities?
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:18 pm to saint tiger225
Great. Now let's get to the important part of figuring out what color these architects were and if they identified as Trans or not.
This post was edited on 5/22/23 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:25 pm to saint tiger225
Man was advanced at an earlier date than most archaeologists today want to believe
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:26 pm to saint tiger225
I thought for sure this was going to be blueprints for a new bridge to cross the river. The original discussion for that project has to pre-date these cave carvings.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:36 pm to saint tiger225
I don’t like the looks of that set back. They must have had the HOA all up in their arse.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 1:47 pm to saint tiger225
If I hadn’t read the post, I would have sworn to anyone who asked that someone had left an actual kite out there. Amazing resemblance.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 2:45 pm to saint tiger225
Seems as though everything we know started in the Middle East or Africa.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 6:34 pm to saint tiger225
Things just keep getting older.
Posted on 5/22/23 at 7:44 pm to saint tiger225
I’m sure if you look close enough at the structure you’ll find something the builder fricked up.
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