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Thu 09 Sep 2009New techniques undermine 'mother goddess' role in ancient community
MODERN SCIENTIFIC methods are revealing how the world’s earliest farming communities lived about 9,000 years ago.
Newly discovered human and animal figurines are also overturning some of the previous misconceptions about an archaeological site first opened in the 1960s and a supposed role played by a “mother goddess” for the ancient peoples who lived there.
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