{"id":369,"date":"2005-02-01T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2005-02-01T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:45:00","slug":"369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crane Dancers of \u00c7atalh\u00f6yuk<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Neolithic town of \u00c7atalh\u00f6yuk <\/a> in Turkey occupies a high place among people who think that there were peaceful, ancient cultures focused on a Mother Goddess.<\/p>\n

That view of Neolithic culture is a bit simplistic<\/a>, but one thing seems likely: in ancient Anatolia they had crane dancers, costumed in the actual wings (and other plumage?) of the common crane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The current issue of Antiquity<\/em><\/a> offers a suggestion that crane wing bones found with holes drilled in them were part of dance costumes. Read a summary here<\/a>.
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The Crane Dancers of \u00c7atalh\u00f6yuk The Neolithic town of \u00c7atalh\u00f6yuk in Turkey occupies a high place among people who think that there were peaceful, ancient cultures focused on a Mother Goddess. 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