>It looks like a mix of Maya and Indian
I know you say that from a purely aesthetic perspective but just in case they're genetically close to the basques (who are in turn the closest to most pre-roman iberian population) >Is there much more to find?
Most likely >Are we waiting for a breakthrough or is it likely lost to time?
Probably but not anytime soon
>home for Arlantis
1)It's not 9000 years old
2)It's not as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together
3) It's not a giant circle city but a bunch of small complexes
It's obvious that Plato's Atlantis is mostly fictional but Tartessos might have provided the basis for it.
That's non sense. They had nothing in common. Atlantis was sunk and Tartessos was not sunk during the time of Plato. Atlantis is set in distant mythical times, Tartessos' apex was around the 6th century BC
We are waiting for a breakthrough. Yes.
There's been a few important finds already. Like a temple that was burned and buried within the earth around the time Tartessian civ collapsed, a big sacrifice of pigs, horses, chickens, etc had been conducted shortly before. So it's believed the ones who destroyed and buried the site were Tartessians themselves. >The adobe walls of the most recent temple (constructed around the end of the 6th Century BCE) outline 11 rooms and span an area of around 500 sq m. But for reasons that archaeologists have not yet deciphered, at the end of the 5th Century BCE, the people living here conducted a ritual in which they ate animals, discarded the remains in a central pit, set the temple on fire, sealed it with clay and then abandoned it all – leaving a host of objects to burn inside, such as iron tools and gold israeliteellery.
What is there to talk about those losers in north morocco? A bunch of primitive trinkets, a bunch of carved stones made by greek colonists. Some mudhut remains that are unremarkable even for mudhuts
Ooga booga drawings
We know jack shit about them because few people were writing in Iberia before they collapsed.
Also, we haven't found tartessos itself yet. Only peripheral sites or temples.
>What is there to talk about those losers in north morocco? A bunch of primitive trinkets, a bunch of carved stones made by greek colonists. Some mudhut remains that are unremarkable even for mudhuts >Ooga booga drawings >Anything else?
>home for Arlantis
1)It's not 9000 years old
2)It's not as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together
3) It's not a giant circle city but a bunch of small complexes
Atlantis is considered the oldest civilization in Europe and one of the oldest ever (because it precedes the Egyptian times).
It is also considered (there are growing evidences of this) the place where the oldest writting system was created, even before the sumerians and others.
Just consider that Cadiz (old Gadir) is the oldest city in Europe and it is in an area close to where Tartessos was so there must be many others that were abandoned and that are oldest.
And even greek philosophers wrote about Tartessos having a culture of thousands of years of existence before them.
>Atlantis is considered the oldest civilization in Europe and one of the oldest ever (because it precedes the Egyptian times).
It's not.
>It is also considered (there are growing evidences of this) the place where the oldest writting system was created, even before the sumerians and others.
There aren't and it isn't.
>Just consider that Cadiz (old Gadir) is the oldest city in Europe and it is in an area close to where Tartessos was so there must be many others that were abandoned and that are oldest.
It's not.
>And even greek philosophers wrote about Tartessos having a culture of thousands of years of existence before them.
They didn't.
WESTERN Europe, not Europe. And even then, 1100 BC isn't even that far back. There are Greek cities a millennium older and Minoan cities even older than that.
1)actual archaeological digs proved that it was founded around 850-800 BC, what a Greek with dementia claimed in 100 AD or so is irrelevant
2)Even so it wouldn’t be the oldest city in Europe, since Knossos, Pylos, Phaistos, Zakros, Mycenae, Tyrins, etc. are much older
Fuck you OP I was going to make a thread about it.
Anyway we only started very recently to uncover more infos on it.
niggas will say even these status look "black"
According to the Japanese, the Tartessian had dark skin, purplish hair and green eyes.
It reminds me of what a manga/anime-style depiction of an Amerindian would be.
P.S: Gargoyle did nothing wrong.
It looks like a mix of Maya and Indian. Fascinating. Is there much more to find? Are we waiting for a breakthrough or is it likely lost to time?
>It looks like a mix of Maya and Indian
I know you say that from a purely aesthetic perspective but just in case they're genetically close to the basques (who are in turn the closest to most pre-roman iberian population)
>Is there much more to find?
Most likely
>Are we waiting for a breakthrough or is it likely lost to time?
Probably but not anytime soon
It's obvious that Plato's Atlantis is mostly fictional but Tartessos might have provided the basis for it.
>genetically close to the basques
source?
I remember reading that some of the remains went through DNA testing but I can't find it again unfortunately
Atlantis was most likely an hyperbolic form of Tartessos if you will
that's because they were galicians
That's non sense. They had nothing in common. Atlantis was sunk and Tartessos was not sunk during the time of Plato. Atlantis is set in distant mythical times, Tartessos' apex was around the 6th century BC
Might have based on what? That it's located in the West?
We are waiting for a breakthrough. Yes.
There's been a few important finds already. Like a temple that was burned and buried within the earth around the time Tartessian civ collapsed, a big sacrifice of pigs, horses, chickens, etc had been conducted shortly before. So it's believed the ones who destroyed and buried the site were Tartessians themselves.
>The adobe walls of the most recent temple (constructed around the end of the 6th Century BCE) outline 11 rooms and span an area of around 500 sq m. But for reasons that archaeologists have not yet deciphered, at the end of the 5th Century BCE, the people living here conducted a ritual in which they ate animals, discarded the remains in a central pit, set the temple on fire, sealed it with clay and then abandoned it all – leaving a host of objects to burn inside, such as iron tools and gold israeliteellery.
What is there to talk about those losers in north morocco? A bunch of primitive trinkets, a bunch of carved stones made by greek colonists. Some mudhut remains that are unremarkable even for mudhuts
Ooga booga drawings
Anything else?
I'm not even Spanish but hop off the thread my dear Mexican aztec warrior
We know jack shit about them because few people were writing in Iberia before they collapsed.
Also, we haven't found tartessos itself yet. Only peripheral sites or temples.
>What is there to talk about those losers in north morocco? A bunch of primitive trinkets, a bunch of carved stones made by greek colonists. Some mudhut remains that are unremarkable even for mudhuts
>Ooga booga drawings
>Anything else?
>home for Arlantis
1)It's not 9000 years old
2)It's not as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together
3) It's not a giant circle city but a bunch of small complexes
I also have seen some genealogy linking Arganthonios and the Tartessian kings as descendent of Geryon, although ultimately bs is still interesting
Atlantis is considered the oldest civilization in Europe and one of the oldest ever (because it precedes the Egyptian times).
It is also considered (there are growing evidences of this) the place where the oldest writting system was created, even before the sumerians and others.
Just consider that Cadiz (old Gadir) is the oldest city in Europe and it is in an area close to where Tartessos was so there must be many others that were abandoned and that are oldest.
And even greek philosophers wrote about Tartessos having a culture of thousands of years of existence before them.
>Atlantis is considered the oldest civilization in Europe and one of the oldest ever (because it precedes the Egyptian times).
It's not.
>It is also considered (there are growing evidences of this) the place where the oldest writting system was created, even before the sumerians and others.
There aren't and it isn't.
>Just consider that Cadiz (old Gadir) is the oldest city in Europe and it is in an area close to where Tartessos was so there must be many others that were abandoned and that are oldest.
It's not.
>And even greek philosophers wrote about Tartessos having a culture of thousands of years of existence before them.
They didn't.
Cadiz is the oldest city in western europe.
And Seville the oldest city in western Europe to be founded by Europeans (since Cadiz started as a phoenicians colony)
WESTERN Europe, not Europe. And even then, 1100 BC isn't even that far back. There are Greek cities a millennium older and Minoan cities even older than that.
Still older than anything else in western Europe, why so salty?
1)actual archaeological digs proved that it was founded around 850-800 BC, what a Greek with dementia claimed in 100 AD or so is irrelevant
2)Even so it wouldn’t be the oldest city in Europe, since Knossos, Pylos, Phaistos, Zakros, Mycenae, Tyrins, etc. are much older
You are illiterate. I said WESTERN Europe.
you've never read the timaeus or critias
plato outright said that he made it all up