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...COMMUNISM ? 7 000 BC ?
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A recent report FROM CAYONU TO CATALHOYUK by Bernhard Brosius summarizes the results of 50 years of reserch into prehistoric towns in what is now in Turkey.(The report is avalible at www.urkommunismus.de/catalhueyuek_en.pdf)
In what is now in Turkey,archeologists have been excavating the ruins of several towns that date back to 10 000 BC.One of these towns,now called Cayonu,was home to around 10 000 people starting in 8 800 BC.
The ruins of this town show clearly the class nature of the society that lived there.
On the east end of the town was a rectangular building dug into a slope and without windows.This building was a temple and was the site of human sacrifice.Daggers and altars encrusted in human blood,and neat stacks of sculls and bones attest to the anchient use of this buildings.
There was a large square outside the temple surrounded by three houses,each much larger then any other house in town.In these houses were found imported weapons,large blocks of cristals,stone sculptures and the other wealth of society.The houses also contained large blocks of flint and obsidian,the material from which all the town`s stone-age tools were produced.
But theses houses contained no evidence of tool production.So the inhabitants of the large houses not only possessed wealth but they controlled the production of tools,by controlling the stone they were made from.They were the ruling class.
The rest of the town was made of much smaller,poorer housing.In these houses was found evidence of production and a large number of people did the actual work.Like class societies always have,this one ended in revolution.
REVOLUTION
Over 9 200 years ago,revolution exploded in Cayonu so quickly its rulers had no time to save their treasures.Their houses were burned down,the temple torn down;even the floor was ripped up.The now free people of Cayonu turned the area of the destroyed temple and rich houses into a garbage dump.
They then tore down the poor housing they had and rebuilt the town with new houses all of which were the size of the former houses of the rich,They were able to built an egalitarien,classless society,where men and women were equal and everyone shared in the production and the consumption of the wealth of society.This prehistoric communism spread across Anatolia and Balkans and endured for 3 000 years.
The nature of violant death can frequently be deduced from bones.Across this region,during this time period,archaeologists have not found a single skeleton with evidence of murder or warfare.Each home was decorated with murals and not a single mural depicts warfare,fighting,ill treatment or torture.There are no depictions of court scenes,convictions or punishments.
This was an utopian society that required hard work from everyone,but still only required about half as much work per labourer as under the previous rulers with their mansions,slums and human sacrifice.
This left plenty of time for art and ornamentation of everyday tools and objects.It also left time for enormous feasts and celebrations. Without a culture that needed to justify the inequalities between the ruled and the rulers,they were able to build a society of equality between the sexes.
Age
31
Country
Turkey
