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The 'swastika' one is interesting to me-with the curved entranceways they look kind of like funnels. Could it have been used as a place to herd and trap animals
by a2tech 11y ago
The 'swastika' one is interesting to me-with the curved entranceways they look kind of like funnels. Could it have been used as a place to herd and trap animals? For example people have used naturally occurring box canyons to trap horses-could the natives of this region, lacking natural canyons, been doing the same thing?
- maze-le 11y agoIf the dating is correct (~6000 BCE), this would still be 2000 years before the earliest estimations of the domestication of horses.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoPeople were eating horses long before they domesticated them. :-)
- brazzledazzle 11y agoI think horses were just an example. Hominids were trapping prey animals and enemies using things like canyons.
- wil421 11y ago>Could it have been used as a place to herd and trap animals? Horses was just one of the examples. I dont think they used box canyons to trap animals only meant for domestication.
- stevenkovar 11y agoMy first thought was that it would be a simple way to position key items while structuring a village. Perhaps points for sentries to watch over the village, for traders/shops to operate, etc. They seemed to be spaced within shouting distance of one another.
- Gravityloss 11y agoA great idea, you could look at structures that are in use today to herd reindeer. http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/hae_kuva.aspx?id=111600&ttyyppi=jpg&kunta_id=148 http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/hae_kuva.aspx?id=111600&ttyyppi=j... If you do it in the same place for a thousand years, what kind of mounds will form?
- rdtsc 11y agoThis is of course a classic "swastika as a building" pattern controversy: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/09/28/391393/--Accidental-Giant-Navy-Swastika-Building-Was-No-Accident# http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/09/28/391393/--Accidental... It comes along controversy, conspiracy theories, and insinuations of Nazi infiltrations into the US govt., a fun read altogether.
- tcdent 11y agoMost people today associate it with Nazi's, but it's much older than that.
- jschwartzi 11y agoIt was originally a symbol of good fortune.
- donarb 11y agoIt still is, to those the symbol's meaning was stolen from.
- rdtsc 11y agoI was just pointing out it was an interesting controversy. It ranged from "it is an efficient building design", to happened by accident, to deliberate agenda due to some conspiracy theory.
- greggman 11y agoDefine "most". All of India, All of China, All of Japan, and every related country does not associate that symbol with Nazis. They are on every map as they mark hospitals in those countries.
- mikeash 11y agoI was in China recently and went into a temple with several Buddhas with swastikas on them. My Chinese wife turned to me and said, in a confused way, "isn't that the Nazi symbol?" I have no idea how representative that is, of course.
- duaneb 11y agoAlternatively I wonder if they may be some sort of primitive surveying technique. EDIT: primitive meaning different and not western tech, it's out of my league.