Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?

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Ancient Stone Carvings-Comet(s) Hitting Earth app.10,950 BC (p14, Shermer concedes...)Posted on 4/22/17 at 9:48 pm

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In Search of Six-Fingered Men (and Women): Indicators of a lost civilization? BY GREGON THURSDAY, MAY 12TH

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In our Monday news briefs we posted a link to an extraordinary story, which detailed recent discoveries at the archaeological sites of Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe that suggest most of the remains of an unknown, extraordinarly ancient civilisation still lie buried beneath the soil of eastern Turkey (as in, possibly 13,000 years ago – three times as long ago as the building of the Great Pyramid). I posted a Twitter thread pointing out some of most eye-opening parts of the article, but here I just wanted to touch on perhaps the weirdest thing mentioned:

Another unnerving oddity is the curious number of carvings of people with six fingers. Is this symbolic, or an actual deformity? Perhaps the mark of a strange tribe? Again, there are more questions than answers.

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Perhaps the most well-known ancient mention of polydactyly though is in the Bible, where in 2 Samuel 21:20 we find one of a number of stories under the ‘War Against the Philistines’ involving battles against ‘giants’, or at least very large men (redolent of the David vs Goliath story):

In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha. When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimeah, David’s brother, killed him.

It is in this passage that we find a possible link to the Karahan Tepe six-fingered carvings that I think many fringe researchers in alternative archaeology, ancient alien theory, or Biblical literalism might jump on. Some in those groups have previously suggested that these Biblical ‘giants’ – and via this passage, people with six-fingers – might have been members of a lost civilisation, or a hybrid alien species, or the offspring of angelic beings, respectively. This comes from a couple of passages in the Old Testament referring to a race of giants that lived before (and after) the great flood:

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. (Genesis 6:4)

So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are of great size. There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim); and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:32-33)

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