(October 22, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Chuck Wrote: Not to pour cold water on this, but when this 6000 year old temple in Ukraine was new, comparable temples with bass relic figure carvings at Gobekli Tepe on the other side of the Black Sea were already 6000 years old.
Very true but also indicative of when different regions reached a similar stage of development. That is the big surprise in Ukraine.
There were indications (Jericho, for one) of civic organization in the Levant.
There is considerable evidence of interconnected trade network which extended throughout Europe and the Near east during Neolithic. This suggests differences between regions is partially analogous to the differences between town and country, and not all differences of level of development.
