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    2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System

    People Have Been Visiting Stonehenge for 9,000 Years, Say Archaeologists
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Remarkable workmanship and preservation.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    I often wonder how many ancient items are still hidden in the world.


    (And I love it when one is found.)

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    Image of Trystero Trystero
    11/18/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: All I know is that Kuttamuwa got what he paid for. Oh, sure, he was forgotten for a bit, but now his soul stone is famous! And so is he! His name has already been seen by at least 2,845 people -- and that's just on this site. His name is known to people in places he never could have imagined (well, maybe he could. If he was really good at it).


    Pretty good for somebody I assume is not nobility.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/18/08

    @Trystero: True dat!
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    Image of kolacek kolacek
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Here we go with the sexy talk. I have this conversation with my Persian buddy at least once a month.


    There is most definitely precedent for Indo-European influence on ancient Turkic peoples, but there is also precedent for Semitic, and specifically Jewish influence on them as well. The Jewish influence coming thousands of years later, obviously, but still true just the same. Keep in mind that these people and regions are about as far apart as Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.


    Very interesting news but not a real shocker.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/18/08

    @kolacek: I am always shocked to find people with Portland names using a San Franciscan dialect. Plus, those Portland types have some pretty freaky ideas about funerals that we San Franciscans definitely don't share. Still, I don't mind sharing a little ox feast with them once in a while.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/18/08

    @Annalee Newitz: Blasphemy!! The Oregonian outlanders must be destryeyed, Such is the will of K'kglrx$zmmht the Awkward! To you chariots. The rivers will run with their blood.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/18/08

    @Grey_Area: In case you were wondering to be "destryeyed" is like being "destroyed" only more visually gruesome.
    There were no typos, such is the will of K'kglrx$zmmht the Awkward! etc. etc.
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    Image of Dany_J Dany_J
    11/18/08

    @Grey_Area: Ahh! Californians! Must build a wall at the border to repell the invaders! Or I guess we can just let the rain depress them until they go home on their own.
    Danya - native Eugenian
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    11/18/08

    @Dany_J: Go Ducks, such is the will of K'kglrx$zmmht the Awkward!
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    Image of bagumpity bagumpity
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    I think it's an early reboot of All of Me, with Steve Martinwattawulli. Back in bowl! Back in bowl!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/18/08

    @bagumpity: You can tell because the right foot and the left foot are clearly out of step.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Awesome. Also slightly creepy. Kind of has a bit of a lich/phylactery vibe to it.


    ...


    Alright. Cat's out of the bag. Also a fantasy geek.

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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    The guy in the stone appears to be sitting down watching TV with what could be an ancient remote control device. It appears his ancient belief system mirrors mine very closely.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Someone alert Daniel Jackson.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Sort of foreshadowing the idea of uploading yourself, in this case to a stele instead of a network.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/18/08

    @Mathmos: Isn't that always the way with central Asian pre-historic philosophers? The ideas are always outpacing the technology.
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    Image of GiltProto GiltProto
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    Tonight I will lift a Leinenkugel's into the air to salute Mr. Kuttamuwa.
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    Image of Themindtaker Themindtaker
    11/18/08

    @GiltProto: I'll join you in that. To Kuttamuwa! Cheers!
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/18/08

    @Themindtaker: Good old Kuttamuwa - he knew how to throw a feast.
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    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    @Michael_GR

    So whatever religion being described here is still predated by Zoasterism and Vedic Hinduism then.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/18/08

    @Belabras: They're not claiming it is the first religion, merely that it's evidence for a belief in the body/soul split.
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    11/18/08

    @Annalee Newitz: And if we compare this to the religous belief of Ancient Egypt or Sumeria, they are much older.
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    Image of Elcheecho Elcheecho
    11/18/08

    @corpore-metal: your antecedent is confusing
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/18/08

    @Elcheecho: Hey! You leave his antecedents out of this!
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    Image of Michael_GR Michael_GR
    11/18/08

    In reply to 2,900-Year-Old Gravestone Reveals Ancient Belief System
    10,000 BC sounded very fishy (to the best of my knowledge writing evolved around 3000 BC). So I checked the original article - it says it's from the eighth century BC. that would make it 2900 years old at most.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/18/08

    @Michael_GR: Yes, fixing. Sorry about that.
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