MAN LIVED 8000 YEARS AGO
Archaeologists in Irak have unearthed evidence of a community which lived in well-built houses and used tools and utensils of fine craftsmanship '8000 years ago—2ooo years earlier than history books teach. Skeletons show little difference in the size, mentality, and strength ot these ancient men compared with men of today. , ~ Ceramic experts pieced together fragments of earthenware dug up at Hassuna which were made thousands of vcars before Noah and the Deluge. Hand-baked bricks and other relics show that the makers lived in two- to three-roomed houses with rooms oit high and 7ft square. . The most prized find is a sickle with 24 inches of perfectly carved and matched pieces of flint glued together with bitumen and a 15-inch wooden handle, indicating a well-advanced stage of husbandry. These and other finds are revealed by Dr. Naji Alasil, chief of Irak's educational experts, now attending the United Nations education conference in London. , , While the war ragea and atomic civilisation was on the brink of selfdestruction, archaeologists pieced together evidence that this 8000-year-old community was better housed and fed than hundreds of.millions of human beings today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 138, 8 December 1945, Page 6
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189MAN LIVED 8000 YEARS AGO Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 138, 8 December 1945, Page 6
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