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<jay_stutz@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> lexcorp@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050611/sc_afp/sciencebritain_050611223536
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> > Sat Jun 11, 6:35 PM ET
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> > LONDON (AFP) - Europe's oldest civilisation has reportedly been
> > discovered by archaelogists across the continent.
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> > More than 150 large temples, constructed between 4800 BC and 4600 BC,
> > have been unearthed in fields and cities in Germany, Austria and
> > Slovakia, predating the pyramids in Egypt by some 2,000 years, The
> > Independent newspaper revealed.
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> > The network of temples, made of earth and wood, were constructed by a
> > religious people whose economy appears to have been based on livestock
> > farming, The Independent reported.
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> > Excavations have taken place over the past three years but the
> > discovery is so new that the civilisation has not yet been named.
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> > The most complex centre discovered so far, beneath the city of Dresden
> > in Saxony, eastern Germany, comprises a temple surrounded by four
> > ditches, three earthen banks and two palisades.
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> > "Our excavations have revealed the degree of monumental vision and
> > sophistication used by these early farming communities to create
> > Europe's first truly large scale earthwork complexes," said Harald
> > Staeuble, from the Saxony state government's heritage department.
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> > The temples, up to 150 metres (164 yards) in diameter, were made by a
> > people who lived in long houses and villages, the newspaper said.
> > Stone, bone, and wooden tools have been unearthed, along with ceramic
> > figures of people and animals.
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> > A village at Aythra, near Leipzig in eastern Germany, was home to some
> > 300 people living in up to 20 large buildings around the temple.
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> We can look forward to more information on these discoveries.
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> Jay
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