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Saturday, April 7, 2012

First Civilization Part 3 Chapter 17

 


 

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The other group of the Ancient Astronaut clones numbering about 20 had left the area where the spaceship was located and headed in a southwesterly direction. This group had been warned by the Watchman who was the overseer of the construction project.  If  you abandon us you cannot return and you will surely die.  If you stay we can keep you alive.  They did not understand this because none of them were given the knowledge that their lifespan was only 30 years. They all had about 90% of the knowledge of their parents.  Each clone had one parent Ancient Astronaut technically a product of asexual reproduction.  They were all produced artificially.  But they were very smart. They considered themselves almost equal to their creators.  They had taken equipment with them when they had set out on their own.

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Ancient Astronaut Clone leader

The land they crossed did not look like it does today it was covered with lush forests and greenery and animal life was more abundant and there were many species in existence then that are not there today.  Some of them very dangerous predators at that.  Lions, bears, wolves to name a few.  All knew that sexual reproduction with another clone would not work.  They had not given much thought on human contact and had not come across any of them yet.  But they were expecting it to happen. They had seen signs of their presence.

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The Lush Green Forest they traveled through

Eastern Anatolia contains the oldest monumental structures in the world.  Eastern Anatolia is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals. Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Nevali Cori and Hacilar represent the world's oldest known agricultural villages.

 

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Prehistoric sites in Anatolia

The oldest name for Anatolia, "Land of the Hatti" was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty (2350–2150 BC). So it may have been called something else before that-because we are talking about 13,000 -14, 000 years before that time.  The Neolithic Revolution was the first agricultural revolution. It would begin to take place sometime  around 15,000 B.C.   It was the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement. Archaeological data indicates that various forms of plants and animal domestication evolved independently in six separate locations worldwide circa 13,000–5,000 BC. The earliest known evidence exists in the tropical and subtropical areas of southwestern/southern Asia.

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Hunter-harvesters gathering grain

Once agriculture started gaining momentum, human activity resulted in the selective breeding of cereal grasses (beginning with emmer, einkorn and barley), and not simply of those that would favor greater caloric returns through larger seeds. Plants that possessed traits such as small seeds or bitter taste would have been seen as undesirable. Plants that rapidly shed their seeds on maturity tended to be gathered at harvest, thus not stored and not seeded the following season; there would be years of harvesting selecting strains that retained their edible seeds longer.   But it was still in it’s primitive stage at this time.

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Neolithic Barley

Several plant species, the "pioneer crops" or Neolithic founder crops, were the earliest plants successfully manipulated by humans at sites such as Tell Aswad. Some of these pioneering attempts failed at first and crops were abandoned, sometimes to be taken up again and successfully domesticated thousands of years later: rye, tried and abandoned in Neolithic Anatolia, made its way to Europe as weed seeds and was successfully domesticated in Europe, thousands of years after the earliest agriculture.
When the clones made camp they made sure their area was defensible from predators and humans alike.  They too hunted game to eat and roast and cooked their food which always made uninvited animal guests appear.  So they destroyed them too.  But staying up late at night in the open in a tent or lean-to was not advisable so they would build a barricade around their encampment to at least slow the unwanted guests down so they would have time to kill them. Using vines they made rope into trip wires that were booby-trapped with logs or camouflaged pits.  Finally they decided to build a base camp with defenses and traps.

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The Ancient Astronaut Clones build a base camp

The Ancient Astronaut clones were  taller and broader than the average human, because they had been engineered that way to be able to do any task given them.  It was not long before they did come across groups of humans who upon seeing them fled.  They finally came across some humans they could trade with. They learned how to speak with them.  The Ancient Astronaut clones made a more permanent settlement out of their base camp. Before long news of their presence got spread around and many more humans came and learned from them.  All the humans were armed with spears and battle axes few had bow and arrow.  The clones would have feasts cooking animals they had killed and the humans brought the grains they had gathered and they ate together.  The humans called the clones the Anakim.

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