Plato Prehistorian

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PLATO PREHISTORIAN
10,000 to 5000 b.c. in Myth and Archaeology
The "Neolithic Revolution," the change from hunting and gathering to farming, has been called the most important event in human prehistory. Apparently begun in the Near East during the eighth and seventh millennia B.C., its repercussions are felt intensely in our own time; yet the reason for this evident switch to sedentary living remains unknown. Departing from the conventional view of the early world, the author suggests that the key to this event lies in ancient Greek literature, in tales that we have wrongly construed as mythic. By comparing the most recent findings in Old World archaeology with two of these supposed myths—the great war of Plato's Timaeus and Critias and the Greek dating of the prophet Zarathustra to the seventh millennium B.C.—she demonstrates the immense value offered by those ancient reports to the reconstruction of man's past.
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I. The War of 8500 b.c. The Priest's... Tovább

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PLATO PREHISTORIAN
10,000 to 5000 b.c. in Myth and Archaeology
The "Neolithic Revolution," the change from hunting and gathering to farming, has been called the most important event in human prehistory. Apparently begun in the Near East during the eighth and seventh millennia B.C., its repercussions are felt intensely in our own time; yet the reason for this evident switch to sedentary living remains unknown. Departing from the conventional view of the early world, the author suggests that the key to this event lies in ancient Greek literature, in tales that we have wrongly construed as mythic. By comparing the most recent findings in Old World archaeology with two of these supposed myths—the great war of Plato's Timaeus and Critias and the Greek dating of the prophet Zarathustra to the seventh millennium B.C.—she demonstrates the immense value offered by those ancient reports to the reconstruction of man's past.
From the Table of Contents
I. The War of 8500 b.c. The Priest's Tale
The Mediterranean Before 9000 b.c. The Magdalenian Cycle The Iberomaurusians of North Africa The Late Paleolithic Nile The Natufian Culture of Palestine Tenth Millennium Greece The War in the West The Tanged Point Technocomplex The Battling Bowmen of Spain and Kobystan The War in the East Deluge and Survivors?
II. Parallels to Plato's Tale in Myth
Popular Greek Mythology Zeus Against Titans, Giants, and Typhon The Contest for Attica Egyptian Myth and Archaeology The Mythic Art of the Sahara and Sicily The Golden Age and Indo-European Mythology
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