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Title: Did Stone Age man invent 'church bells' 15,000 years ago?
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet ... s-call-community-funerals.html
Published: Aug 22, 2015
Author: RICHARD GRAY FOR MAILONLINE
Post Date: 2015-08-22 08:02:15 by Ada
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Ceremonial boulders were hit like 'gongs' to call the community to funerals Large stone mortars were found next to stone age grave sites in Israel Researchers believe these were pounded to summon people to ceremonies Noise from the 3 foot tall rocks would have been audible for miles around It suggests nearby communities were bound together with common beliefs They were among the first Stone Age humans to abandon the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in favour of living in settled villages around 15,000 years ago. Now archaeologists have discovered the Natufian culture that lived in the Levant in modern-day Israel may also have pioneered the concept of church bells to summon the community together. Researchers have discovered strangely shaped boulders they believe were used as ceremonial 'gongs' that were pounded during burial ceremonies. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3205788/Did-Stone-Age- man-invent-church-bells-15-000-years-ago-Ceremonial-boulders-hit-like-gongs-call- community-funerals.html#ixzz3jXoeslgI Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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#3. To: Ada (#0)
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Damn!!! What a bunch of rubbish!! Not ONCE in the article did anybody actually HIT a fucking rock to actually see what the hell happened. My God, what kind of shit were these university eggheads smoking to come up with this looniness?? Who actually believes this bullshit?? Jeez.....
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