Some Interesting Archeaology Discoveries

 I've seen, in recent days, a couple interesting article on archeology findings. The first, entitled "Archaeologists discover world's oldest calendar that could rewrite birth of civilization," discusses a theory that engravings on a 12,000 year old stone pillar that is part of the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey are a calendar which not only has an accurate 365 day year but also apparently recognizes the Earth's axial precession many thousands of years before it was documented by the classical Greeks. John Wilder discusses this pillar and calendar in his recent post, "Göbekli Tepi: How Beer Created Civilization."

    The archeologists behind this discovery also contend that carvings (I presume on the same pillar) "depict a comet strike that caused a mini ice age for 1,200 years, which wiped out large animals and galvanized agricultural development and complex societies." This is, of course, a reference to the Younger Dryas and the theory that there was an impact event that caused the Younger Dryas. Although the mainstream science just tries to ignore this, there are plenty of respectable scientists in the geology and anthropology fields that have found evidence that tends to support the impact theory. Antonio Zamora (link to his YouTube channel)  believes that this impactor is what caused the elliptical Carolina Bays and similar structures found throughout the mid-West, and that the impactor struck the Laurentide Ice Sheet 12,900 years ago, which is why no obvious crater has been found. 

    The second discovery, although perhaps more mundane, is described in the article, "Archaeologists make ground-breaking discovery set to 'offer a new perspective' on everyday life in the 15th-century BC." This discovery, also in Turkey, is of an Akkadian cuneiform tablet, which was found in the ancient archaeological site of Aççana Höyük, which is a receipt for the purchase of furniture. I wonder what was the return policy? The article also notes:

    In 2018, researchers came across a similar clay tablet that was etched with a complaint from a disgruntled customer.

    The shopper had purchased some copper and was apparently dissatisfied, sharing their thoughts with a shop keeper named Ea-nāṣir in the ancient city state of Ur, in around 1750 BCE.