Our ancestors, that is.
Model of home in settlement of Çatal Hüyük; (from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") It is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC, Turkey (Thanks Wikipedia)
See a post earlier about Archaeology, one of my interests!
It's interesting to see what has been made of clay, stone and bone. Fiber arts, even clothes of skins, unfortunately just don't survive through the ages.
The Columbus Hypocrisy (and all Western European explorers/invaders).
Justice is often difficult to find.
But just look at all your ancestors!
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
-Steven Brust, novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)
Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard.”
Barb, great post and quotes! Take care, enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteGood morning early bird Eileen. Hope you have a great Thursday!
Delete...I'm not able to go that far back.
ReplyDeleteMany of mine don’t have names, but your’d better believe they once existed!
DeleteI too am a fan of Archaeology magazine. I once thought I would be one. Our trip to Greece in April will of course be focused on ancient history and what archaeologists have discovered.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a lot of fun in Greece! Sounds very likely. I’ll never forget how a woman cleaning for me once said, Oh I’m from Malta, where your little sleeping goddess figure is from! She didn’t come back, and I wish I’d had a longer conversation with her.
DeleteThe ancestors graphic impressed me. So much genetic material in there.
ReplyDeleteI love thinking of myself the result of all that love.
DeleteI once had a vision of all of the lines of women behind me who are each a part of who I am and it has stuck with me. An endless line of women of all colors, stature, cultures, languages, abilities, customs...
ReplyDeleteAnd yet all of of us connected, not just by our genetic links, but by our very woman-hood. All of the things that are unique to the life-givers, the life-nurturers. This image comforts me.
I know that! When I was A women’s group we would introduce ourselves by saying I am Barbara, the daughter of - the daughter of – and that as far back as we could remember. Yes, The chain of Women is very strong!
DeleteYour posts are always so inspirational.
ReplyDeleteIt pleases me to share things in this way. Thank you
DeleteFascinating post. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️ I follow YouTube channel called Early American. She and her husband dress, cook and live like people did back in the early 1800s. It's a great channel.
ReplyDeleteI wish you good health and happiness, and a lovely weekend ahead. 😊
That sounds very interesting. I will look at it! Thanks for your comment.
DeleteThat room could easily pass as a minimalistic modern home.
ReplyDeleteWhat Amazes me about it is all the entrances were on the roof. Very clever!
DeleteI often wonder about all those people on earth to end in moi! No I know how it really works. It's just the way the graphic expresses it.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn’t take too long to get to 1000 people that are our direct ancestors
DeleteThe Columbus hypocrisy is alive and well, alas.
ReplyDeleteYes,ICE - Is just another way the white men are still trying to get rid of anybody else with different skin color, language, culture, intelligence!
DeleteThank you for this!
ReplyDeleteNot sure if you mentioned it in a blog post yourself but for me the book "Eve" by Cat Bohannon was an eye opener in all respects, but mostly in explaininng and detailing the amazing work of women throughout our evolution.
I am absolutely Loved Eve! What a wonderful academic approach to the origin of mammals and eventually us,!
DeleteI like archaeology too. The math about the number of ancestors is based on a false assumption. Actually, before motor vehicles made distance less of an issue, many people married their cousins or other relatives who had ancestors in common. I’m not sure we could diagram that without creating a scribble!
ReplyDeleteGood point! My family tree has several confusing places, not only where cousins married, but where brothers of one family married sisters in another, thus same grandparents for all their children.
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