I was referring more to the letting of blood to appease a god(s). Not consuming meat.

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but it's such a ubiquitous thing in ancient cultures to sacrifice to the gods I wonder if it arised independently in so many cultures or if it was a tradition passed down from some proto-human from when we were barely able to conceptualize the abstract such as gods nd afterlife.

I think the pact itself was no more than a formality. The Russians de facto controlled all those countries so they decided to write that fact down somehow. Some kind of a cargo cult mimicking NATO, I'd say.

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Most people only know about the black goo. And Guy Pierce’s bad old-man makeup.

But weren't both in today's Jordan (Petra) or in the Dead Sea (Sodom and Gomorrah)?

hi, thanks for the open questions :)

I'm not sure if I follow how/why the sites were dated 7,000 years old. what was the technique to determine the dating ?

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And I'm sorry, one more question if I may. Does this in some way imply large scale processing? If the horns had been treated, perhaps they were used in another application, these were brought here for some other application, the meat was used elsewhere, etc. Would this imply a larger population using the end products of these sacrifices then, like a sort of religious factory work? I'm of limited understanding, but weren't there many bull cults/horned cults in the region at the time?

That is so fascinating, thanks for responding!

They did slaughter them, just not inside the structure. Where exactly, we aren't sure. We find cut marks on a number of the horns/teeth, so we can see evidence of butchering. But the non-cranial parts of the body haven't been found and were presumably part of a feast somewhere else. Some of the horns we have found appear like they may have been 'treated' as a way to remove the keratin horn sheath from the bone core. So that could indicate they have come from further away and the horn core was removed in order to be transpored.

They definitely had large herds, we can tell that from the rock art and the fact that they are sacrificing bulls that are more mature.

So over the course of the next 2 years, we are going to excavation a mustatil that is in close association with a nearby Neolithic settlement. The idea being to see whether the animal remains in the mustatil match those in the houses.

Important to state, we have identified 1600 mustatil and have excavated 5. So still a LOT more research to go.

I’ve been to some of the places on the list. Huge BBQ fan. For brisket places in Texas has KC beat.

Hi there, would it seem plausible that the remains being just skull remnants would imply a sort of slaughterhouse? With how prolific they are, and there being a Green Arabia at the time that could support large herds/flocks, I'm curious as to what they would have done with the rest of the remains, if none were recovered on sites. Was there somewhere else they brought the remains, or were the skulls brought there? These almost seem like pens and sluices at large slaughterhouses.

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So they're BBQ pits where people partied right? Or too simplistic?

That's why paul goes on so much about "meat sacrificed to idols" it was really the only red meat msot peoplke got

Using the drinaed blood as an *ingredient* was not at all rare.