Antiquity of village life
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- Antiquity of village life
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- English
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- Panorama Volume XVII (No. 5) May 1966
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- 1966
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- the only stable foundation of their relationship must be equal sovereignty and mutual respect. Only on this basis can mutual goodwill and friendship subsist and en dure. — By Senate President Arturo M. Tolentino. ANTIQUITY OF VILLAGE LIFE Man lived in permanent settlements in the Middle East 5,000 years before Abra ham, said an archeologist. He said recent excavations indicate man resided in per manent settlements even while still existing by hunt ing and gathering wild crops. The archeologist, Maurits van Loon of the University of Chicago, dug at Tell Mureyb'at, a 'large mount on the Euphrates river in Syria 200 miles from Damascus. He began his National Science Foundation — supported pro ject in 1964 to salvage some of the ancient remains threat ened by the Syrian govern ment’s plans for a 4 million dollar irrigation dam. “The archaeological evi dence examined to date in dicates that the village’s in habitants subsisted entirely on hunting and the harvest ing on wild crops,’’ Van Loon said. “The remains indicate the ancient Euphrateans’ first shelters were huts with clay floors and walls built over a frame of wood or reeds on stone foundations,’’ he said. “The rooms had no door ways, but between two pairs of rooms there were tiny peep-holes,” he said. "The houses were entered through the roof.” Van Loon dated the vil lage at about 9,500 years, or 4,500 years before the start of the bronze age and 6,300 before the iron age. 58 Panorama
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