A Story of the Planet Venus

Uncovering Ancient Sites

In addition to stories and myths, ancient sites support the concurrence of this event. For example, the Göbekli Tepe site, (5) being excavated in south central Turkey just north of the Syrian border, is of great interest. It is a massive area with carefully carved stones standing on end, and all buried in a large man-made hill. Images on some of the stones have recently been deciphered, at least in part, which allowed creating a sky map of the arrangements of the constellations at a specific time. That place in time has been identified as 10,950 +/- 250 BCE (12,900 +/- 250 YA). This is understood as the date of the catastrophic visit by the Venus Comet. It also indicates that those people knew that a star map would give a skilled astronomer that date. No description of the Comet has been recognised in their diagrams. The date of that catastrophe as shown by the above mentioned ice data is 11,053 BCE a difference of 103 years, well within the 250 year variability provided by the researchers !

We must question what benefit the builders sought with this intensive effort in the cold climate of the Younger Dryas period that began after the Comet “brushed” past the Earth. Someone had to organise skilled designers, builders and astronomers who had retained skills from before the catastrophe. We can reasonably speculate that these people would, at the same time, be expecting their society to produce food and shelter, and to recreate a community. Then before about 9,500 BCE, nearly 1500 years later, the site was deliberately buried intact.

The author believes that the site was intended to pass on information to generations living in the future. That information was thought worth sharing across time. Current generations of that time could receive it orally. The builders considered that their usual methods of saving and storing their information would not be good enough to stand the test of time. How would we save and pass on our knowledge across 10,000 years, and do it after a catastrophe destroyed our civilisations including our technology?

Additionally, this may have indicated that the builders recognised that the survivors’ levels of skills, knowledge and comprehension had already diminished substantially in the 1500 years after the Catastrophe. The major effect of that event on the people would have been to focus their efforts on ensuring their own survival, particularly if additional Comet encounters ensued. The retention of knowledge and education would be secondary concerns for many millennia. Information retained likely would become distorted or lost before knowledge skills regrew. The builders stored their knowledge in rock carvings that would survive a long time.

The builders apparently anticipated repeat encounters with the Comet. They selected a site in the mountains of Turkey so as to be above another possible Flood, and built there. As mentioned in Appendix 1 - Dated Events - 9585 BCE, the Comet did return and while it caused more damage, the Göbekli Tepe site appears to have remained intact. Were they passing on knowledge of their culture, their skills and perhaps their history? What were they like? Are there other sites elsewhere in the World telling of events that might be similar, and yet to be found?

As less than 10% of the site has been excavated and studied a little, work has only begun on understanding the inscriptions on the buried stones. It could be possible that Göbekli Tepe is a huge library in stone describing that lost civilisation, a predecessor to our own, but not necessarily the only one. Göbekli Tepe was intentionally created to tell the story to future generations, who had to have the skills to find it and decipher it.

If the author is allowed to present his speculation of the purpose of this Göbekli Tepe site, then it is this: The peoples of that pre-13,003 YA culture have left us their information on what happened to them, what came in from the sky, where it came from, their data, observations and measurements. They may have included their descriptions of the physical event inflicted on them, their preparations and mitigation efforts, what they did to survive in the intervening years between catastrophic events, and their expectations for the immediate future. Stones and their carvings, being buried, would not be eroded by the elements. The arrangements of the graphics relative to one another, if meaningful, would not be disturbed. Valuables such as precious metals and stones seem not to have been buried there, giving looters no incentive to tear the structure apart and destroy its purpose.

I look on Göbekli Tepe as a cry from the remote past. “This could happen to you ! “

Another recently found settlement is being unearthed in the Hasankeyf Mound (6) on the bank of the Tigris River at the ancient town of Hasankeyf in the south-eastern province of Batman, Turkey. It was abandoned about 11,500 YA (9,550 BCE), after being occupied for 1,000 years (10,600 - 9600 BCE). This is a similar date to the covering of Göbekli Tepe (pre-9500 BCE). These dates indicate that the use of its site may have begun after the 13,003 YA event (11,053 BCE). Were the people were a collection of survivors of that event? Use of the site may have ceased at the 9585 BCE date of the second Comet encounter with the Earth mentioned above and end of the YD Period. No monumental works have been found.

At a third location, archeological work on the Natufian culture of the Levant(7) shows it to be an older one that flourished in the 12,000 - 9,500 BCE period at multiple sites. These dates covered from before the initial catastrophe about 11,053 BCE. A distinct discontinuity in the settlement pattern at that time indicated an absence of people occupying the sites. The date given in the reference (10,800 BCE +/- 250 years), effectively matches our date for the catastrophe derived from the Greenland Ice Core data [see reference(7) below]. The Natufian article identified the discontinuity based on how a more primitively structured building was erected on the rubble of a previous better constructed building. It provided no explanation for the discontinuity. As at the Hasankeyf Mound site, there was evidence of a further destructive event about 9550 BCE.

Abu Hureyra

The following material, taken directly from a Wikipedia website (retrieved 2018-05-02), reports the assessments made of a location in northern Syria, that match the time of the original 13,000 YA catastrophe and then through the Younger Dryas period that followed. References given in the article are in squared brackets [ ] with details at the end of it.

Comments by the author of this Venus Story are inserted with brackets thus { } .

Tell Abu Hureyra (Arabic: تل أبو هريرة ) is an archaeological site in the Euphrates valley in modern Syria. The remains of the villages within the tell come from over 4,000 years of preceramic habitation spanning the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods. Ancient Abu Hureyra was occupied between 13,000 and 9,000 RC years ago. {JMC 13,575 - 8245 BCEIntCal 09} The site is significant because the inhabitants of Abu Hureyra started out as hunter-gatherers, but gradually moved to farming, making them the earliest known farmers in the world.[1]

History of research

The site was excavated as a rescue operation before it was flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the Tabqa Dam which was being built at that time. The site was excavated by Andrew Moore in 1972 and 1973. It was limited to only two seasons of fieldwork. However, despite the limited time frame, a large amount of material was recovered and studied over the following decades. It was one of the first archaeological sites to use modern methods of excavation such as "flotation", which preserved even the tiniest and most fragile plant remains.[1][2] A preliminary report was published in 1983 and a final report in 2000.[1]

Location and description

Abu Hureyra is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, in modern-day Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria. It was on a plateau near the south bank of the Euphrates, 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Aleppo. The tell is a massive accumulation of collapsed houses, debris, and lost objects accumulated over the course of the habitation of the ancient village. The mound is nearly 500 metres (1,600 ft) across, 8 metres (26 ft) deep, and contained over 1,000,000 cubic metres (35,000,000 cu ft) of archaeological deposits.[2]:42 Today the tell is inaccessible, drowned beneath the waters of Lake Assad.

Occupation history

First occupation

The village of Abu Hureyra had two separate periods of occupation: An Epipalaeolithic settlement and a Neolithic settlement. The Epipalaeolithic, or Natufian, settlement was established ca 13,500 years ago.[1] During the first settlement, the village consisted of small round huts, cut into the soft sandstone of the terrace. The roofs were supported with wooden posts, and roofed with brushwood and reeds.[2]:40-41 Huts contained underground storage areas for food. The inhabitants are probably most accurately described as "hunter-collectors", as they didn't only forage for immediate consumption, but built up stores for longterm food security. They settled down around their larder to protect it from animals and other humans. From the distribution of wild food plant remains found at Abu Hureyra, it seems that they lived there year-round. The population was small, housing a few hundred people at most—but was perhaps the largest collection of people permanently living in one place anywhere at that time.

The inhabitants of Abu Hureyra obtained food by hunting, fishing, and gathering of wild plants. Gazelle was hunted primarily during the summer, when vast herds passed by the village during their annual migration.[2] :41-42 These would probably be hunted communally, as mass killings also required mass processing of meat, skin, and other parts of the animal. The huge amount of food obtained in a short period was a reason for settling down permanently: it was too heavy to carry and would need to be kept protected from weather and pests. Other prey included large wild animals such as onager, sheep, and cattle, and smaller animals such as hare, fox, and birds, which were hunted throughout the year. Different plant species were collected, from three different eco-zones within walking distance (river, forest, and steppe). Plant foods were also harvested from "wild gardens" with species gathered including wild cereal grasses such as einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and two varieties of rye. [2]:41 Several large stone tools for grinding grain were found at the site.

Depopulation

After 1,300 years the hunter-gatherers of the first occupation mostly abandoned Abu Hureyra, probably because of the Younger Dryas, an intense and relatively abrupt return to glacial climate conditions which lasted over 1,000 years.[2] The drought disrupted the migration of the gazelle and destroyed forage-able plant food sources. It is likely that most of the inhabitants had to give up sedentism and return to nomadism, or they might have moved to Mureybet, just 50km upstream on the other side of the Euphrates, a place which expanded dramatically at this time. It seems that a small population managed to hang on at Abu Hureyra - maybe just a few single farms or a small hamlet.

{JMC As shown in this book, (See Appendix 1 - Dated Events) the Younger Dryas began with the 13,000 YA event (13,575 BCEIntCal 09), took 300 years to reach the coldest temperature and then slowly warmed a bit over the next 1160 years. The abandonment of this location coincides in time with the beginning of that period.}

Second occupation

It is from the early part of the Younger Dryas that the first indirect evidence of agriculture was detected in the excavations at Abu Hureyra, although the cereals themselves were still of the wild variety.[3] It was during the intentional sowing of cereals in more favourable refuges like Mureybet that these first farmers developed domesticated strains during the centuries of drought and cold of the Younger Dryas. When the climate abated about 9500 BCE they spread all over the Middle East with this new bio-technology, and Abu Hureyra grew to a large village eventually with several thousand people. The second occupation grew domesticated varieties of rye, wheat and barley, and kept sheep as livestock. The hunting of gazelle decreased sharply, probably due to overexploitation that eventually left them extinct in the Middle East. At Abu Hureyra they were replaced by meat from domesticated animals. The second occupation lasted for about 2,000 years.

{JMC Making permanent grain storage facilities definitely confirms cultivation of those grains. The silos themselves indicate that the practice predated the 13,000 YA event. Gleaning grains as they walk around, will never build up much of a supply to last them through the off-seasons. The grains found in the silos are primarily the varieties that we have come to know as domesticated. In the second encounter of the Earth and the Venus Comet in 9585 BCE, the Earth was cooled again by dusting, and then resumed warming as it moved to an orbit nearer to the Sun. Earth's temperatures steadily increased until 8114 BCE and then began relatively small fluctuations.}

Transition from foraging to farming

Some evidence has been found for cultivation of rye from 11,050 BCE[1] in the sudden rise of pollen from weed plants that typically infest newly disturbed soil. Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz found this claim about epipaleolithic rye, "difficult to reconcile with the absence of cultivated cereals at Abu Hureyra and elsewhere for thousands of years afterwards".[4] It could have been an early experiment that didn't survive and continue. It has been suggested that drier climate conditions resulting from the beginning of the Younger Dryas caused wild cereals to become scarce, leading people to begin cultivation as a means of securing a food supply. Results of recent analysis of the rye grains from this level suggest that they may actually have been domesticated during the Epipalaeolithic. It is speculated that the permanent population of the first occupation was fewer than 200 individuals.[5] These individuals occupied several tens of square kilometres, a rich resource base of several different ecosystems. On this land they hunted, harvested food and wood, made charcoal, and may have cultivated cereals and grains for food and fuel.[5]

{JMC Regarding the point mentioned about the "cultivation of rye based on the sudden rise of pollen from weed plants that typically infest newly disturbed soil" above, the author suggests another thought. The 11,050 BCE date matches the date of the initial encounter between the Earth and the Venus Comet (11,053 BCE) as indicated in the Greenland ice record. Parts of the Earth were devastated by fire and water. It could be that at this location that vegetation was destroyed, and of course the weeds would be expected to be the first plants that would re-establish themselves. The author believes that rye along with other crops were cultivated prior to 13,000 YA. Their reported reappearance would depend on where and when they were found and recognised.}

References to the Wikipedia article

^ [1] a b c d e Moore, Andrew M. T.; Hillman, Gordon C.; Legge, Anthony J. (2000). Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510806-X.

^ [2] a b c d e f Mithen, Steven (2006). After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20000-5000 BC (paperback ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01570-3.

^ [3] Hillman 2000a: 420-1; Bar-Yosef 2002a, 2002b; Dow, Olewiler and Reed 2005

^ [4] Peter M. M. G. Akkermans; Glenn M. Schwartz (2003). The archaeology of Syria: from complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-521-79666-8. Retrieved 27 June 2011.

^ [5] a b Hillman, Gordon C.; A. J. Legge; P. A. Rowle-Conwy (1997). "On the Charred Seeds from Epipalaeolithic Abu Hureyra: Food or Fuel?". Current Anthropology. 38 (4): 651–655. doi:10.1086/204651.

External links

"World's first farming found in Near East". British Archaeology. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2016-09-27.

"First farmers discovered". BBC News. 1999-10-28. Retrieved 2008-05-09.

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A separate paper by Andrew M. T. Moore et al describes very high temperature (8) debris found at that site. It suggests that an impact or an airburst must have occurred sufficiently close to send massive heat and molten glass over the entire early village. The glass was analyzed for geochemical composition, shape, structure, formation temperature, magnetic characteristics and water content. Results from the analysis showed minerals rich in chromium, iron, nickel, sulphides, titanium and even platinum- and iridium-rich melted iron (9)—all of which formed in temperatures higher than 22000C. These results would fit with the passage of the fiery Venus Comet through the atmosphere of the Earth. They are are consistent with those found in the Younger Dryas layers at the other sites across the world,

Plato's "Atlantis" provides a “broad” dating of 10,500 BCE. As examined in reference (3) of this Venus Comet Story (see above), it settles comfortably into the timing of the initial catastrophe caused by the Comet. While it cannot be considered as having a “proven” connection to that catastrophe, neither can it be firmly excluded.

The reader will observe the close time fits of the events discussed above to the date given in the Göbekli Tepe item above. Something catastrophic happened 13,003 YA (11,053 BCE) and there was a repeat event 11,535 YA (9585 BCE). I suspect that the base message to be found at the Göbekli Tepe site is

"This can happen to you."

Our Advantage is that the Venus Comet is no longer passing through our skies !!!

(5) Graham Hancock, “Magicians of the Gods”, First US edition Nov. 2015 pg 5ff

(6) Batman, Turkey news “11,500-Year-Old Settlement Unearthed In Hasankeyf, Batman” 2017-09-26

(7) Wikipedia “Natufian Culture” referenced 2018-02-07

(8) Andrew M. T. Moore et al. Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C, Scientific Reports (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60867-w

(9) See Venus Comet Story Appendix 5 - Venus & Platinum