Sayburç: World Neolithic Congress Tour

[@thearchaeologistslaborator6591]

I hope you'll enjoy this brief overview of our visit to Sayburç on November 6 in connection with the World Neolithic Congress at Şanliurfa, Türkiye.

[@bardmadsen6956]

Thanks for the image at two twenty nine, is this facing North?

[@thearchaeologistslaborator6591]

Yes, that is looking approximately North. The man holding his penis is in the middle of the North bench, and what I think is the doorway (with at least one door socket) is at the middle of the South edge, and the two original pillar bases are symmetrically arranged with respect to a line that goes from that entranceway to the phallic figure.

[@danielpaulson8838]

I imagine in their day it may have been common for lions to eat people. Or at least try. You had to watch out for them. And infant mortality was likely very poor. And humans just don't reproduce like pine cones or Turtles. Instead of many chances for a few to make it from one parent, we get a few chances that aren't very good and requires a long time between efforts. Then your baby didn't stand much of a chance. Yet, the population boomed. The sheer volume of phallic art from antiquity on a global scale seems to indicate as such. I live near a Pioneer Cemetery with five graves lined up in a row, all baby Johnson. Only one year separates them. This was as recent as early 1800's. It does not surprise me to see this art. It seems like it depicts their life while they were growing larger. Have children as a primary drive, and don't become a lions dinner?