Denisovans were producing beads and jewelry in Russia roughly 100,000 years ago — predating modern humans! And Gobekli Tepe (10,000-11,000 years old) features pillars with artistry more complex than anything known from Sumer. This seriously challenges the old narrative that civilization progressed linearly from rudimentary to complex. 🏛️📿
Gobekli Tepe 10,000-year-old art predates Sumer, undermining linear progress narrative
Key facts
- Denisovans (roughly 100 years ago referring to recent finds) produced beads and jewelry in Russia that predate modern humans
- Gobekli Tepe is dated to approximately 10,000-11,000 years ago and features artistic representations more complex than those known from Sumer
- The advanced artistry of Gobekli Tepe's pillars directly challenges the narrative that civilization and artistic expression developed in linear progression from rudimentary to complex
Sources
Denisovan tools unearthed - ScienceDirect.comsciencedirect.com
EXCAVATIONS at Denisova cave in Siberia have uncovered almost 80,000 stone artefacts that extinct humans left over a 150,000-year period.
New Studies Reveal the History of Denisova Caveleakeyfoundation.org
These have been dated at 43,000–49,000 years old, making them the oldest such artifacts in northern Eurasia. Older jewelry has been found ...
Extinct Denisovans from Siberia Made Stunning Jewelrygrantsjewelry.com
Finds like a bracelet, a ring, and beads as well as the world's oldest needle, were all made in layers of this underground complex identified as being occupied ...
News - Stone Bracelet May Have Been Made by Denisovansarchaeology.org
A stone bracelet unearthed in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia in 2008 is being called the oldest-known jewelry of its kind.
Denisova Cave - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
Other items including artifacts dated to around 40,000 BP. Remains of a 32,000-year-old prehistoric species of horse have also been found in the cave. The cave ...
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