Natufian Culture Puns

Hey guys, during the lockdown I binged a bunch of videos about the above mentioned cultures including sites like Jericho, Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk. I’m wondering if there are any works (could be videos, documentaries, articles etc.) that give an overall picture of these cultures and the relationship between the different towns, temples and villages that existed. Currently it’s pseudo scientists like graham who seem to be dominating the conversation about this time period and I’m looking for someone who works more closely with actual evidence and science. There are common features in a lot of these sites like t-shaped pillars, stone tower, animal motifs, skull cult, the tools and architecture so it is obvious that these communities were in contact and connected, but to what degree?

Here are some more specific questions I have so if you can answer any of them, that’ll be great too.

1. Gobekli Tepe is about the size of 50 stone henges so fringe theorists say hunter gatherers could not have built it. But wasn’t it built in phases, not all at the same time, so it could have been the effort of successions of hunter gatherers, right?

2. It is generally agreed that gobekli was built by settled hunter gatherers, perhaps a combined project by several villages. Do we have examples of contemporary villages that were nearby?

3. Whenever I watch a video about Jericho, it is generally said that Jericho was the largest and most populous of its time. But whenever I look at population estimates of PPNA/PPNB villages, there are a lot of larger more populous villages like Mureybet. What’s up with that? What were the largest and most populous of these villages?

4. Jericho was initially thought to have the first tower, but then we found tell qaramel which has five towers and is like 2000 years older. Could the dating of tell qaramel be wrong, since it occurs well before other, similar, PPNA and PPNB sites. Have we found any other sites with towers like theirs?

5. Are there any sites like Catalhoyuk that have no streets and require people to move along on rooftops?

Overall, these cultures cover the beginnings of the first societies and I think they’re really interesting. I’m hoping in the future a tv show or movie could bring this time period to life.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Most of those stories come from Proto Indo European culture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans

(Most likely related to the Yamna culture.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture

Which leads back to Natufian culture after the last ice age. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natufian_culture

Which map to the Piora oscillations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piora_Oscillation

And the younger dryas period. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

If we start with known history, where does the tower of babel and brother of Jared fit in?

We see that the Americas were populated around the same time Japan was. Starting (as best we can currently tell) 23,000 years ago and extending until the Bering strait was no longer traversable after the last glacial maximum. Common dates put the main events near 14,000 ya although there were likely at least a few waves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas

Those waves of settlements contain multiple chromosomal patterns, so it's difficult to say which of these would classify as the Brother of Jared, and which Lehi, as all of this spawns from Africa 300,000 years ago (and up to 3 million of you go back to Australopithecus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

If you adjust the dates in Genesis (counting "years" as generations) you get this rough picture, which leads to mesoamerica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_chronology

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

I have a question about nomenclature. The only name I know of for this culture is Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, but that sounds more like a developmental stage than an actual name of an archaeological culture.

All I have read suggests that this culture is a direct organic development of the Natufian culture, so is it simply a late stage of that culture? Or is it a related but separate culture, given the dramatic changes we see?

If there is no "official" name for this culture, I like "Sanliurfan culture", since that city is right in the middle of the known sites, and apparently hosts the largest archaeological museum in Turkey, in large part devoted to artifacts from this culture.

On a related note, almost all the known sites for this culture are located on barren hilltops, but I think it is very likely that this is simply due to preservation bias. All the settlement sites on flat plains (no doubt originally the great majority) would have been destroyed by thousands of years of agricultural and other human activities. Certainly the surface levels are gone, there might be plenty of deeply buried foundations and the like out there, still waiting to be found and published.

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill