Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Saw the name today on a map of ancient civilizations, and googled it when I got home:

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/jarmosite.html

Jarmo is an archeological site located in northern Iraq on the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. For a long time it was known as the oldest known agricultural community in the world, dating back to 7000 BC. It is also one of the oldest Neolithic village sites to be excavated. It was first found in 1940?s by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities, which later recommended the site to Robert Braidwood of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He had been asking about ancient villages in the Middle East for a study he was conducting. Under the Oriental Institute, Braidwood excavated the site at different times from March 1948 until June of 1955. He wanted to find out more about the origin of food production. The Jarmo archeological site was one of the first means of documentation for the way of life of civilization's first farmers and herders.

There were approximately 100 to 150 people who lived in the village. Twenty permanent mud-walled houses, with stone foundations, tauf walls, and reed bedding, housed the residents of Jarmo. The people reaped their grain with stone sickles, stored their food in stone bowls, and possessed domesticated goats, sheep, and dogs. They also grew emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, and lentils. In addition to their agriculture, they also foraged for wild plants such as the field pea, acorns, pistachio nuts, and wild wheat. The later levels of settlement contained evidence of domesticated pigs and clay pottery. Since many of their tools were made of obsidian from beds 300 miles away, a primitive form of commerce must have existed. Bone tools, especially awls, were abundant from the site. Carefully made bone spoons and beads were also found.

Braidwood said, after he was unable to excavate the site any further due to political reasons, that Jarmo as a settlement was an social and economical example for future Mesopotamian cultures that would arise around 4000 BC. It was also the first site in the Near East in which interdisciplinary field archeology was used to discover the origins of food production.

This quote:  "Jarmo is an archeological site located in northern Iraq," begs the question...

Were any Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Jarmo?   ;D

100 to 150 people lived in Jarmo??????????????   :confused:  It must have been a rough time for Jarmo.   :rofl:

Yes I heard that at least 40 people were banned and banished for insulting and whining about the conditions in Jarmo.  Many complaints were about an old loot player who left the town only to be replaced.  He had every right to do so though after all it is his archeological web site.   :drool:

Yes, yes, I have read that Jarmo was ruled with an iron fist! :hihi:

Jarmo waited 9000 years for democracy  :o

Oh my. :o

"Bone tools, especially awls,"  Awls?  More like Owws!  OUCH!   ;D

Jarmo, did your parents know about this site in Iraq before you were named?  Just curious.   :beer:

It's a Finnish first name. Look it up.



/jarmo

JARMO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Dutch

Pronounced: YAHRH-maw, YAHR-maw

Dutch form of Jermo.
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JERMO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Finnish

Finnish short form of Jeremy.
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JEREMY

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical (Variant)

Pronounced: JER-e-mee, JER-mee   [key]
English form of JEREMIAH, and the form used in some versions of the New Testament.
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JEREMIAH

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Jewish, Biblical

Pronounced: jer-e-MIE-a   [key]

From the Hebrew name יִרְמְיָהוּ (Yirmiyahu) which meant "YAHWEH has uplifted". This was the name of one of the major prophets of the Old Testament, author of the Book of Jeremiah and (supposedly) the Book of Lamentations. He lived to see the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC.

Heard about Norway? :hihi:

strange how finnish people mainly use the dutch version, isn't it?
I think there might be a mistake in there. I know shitloads of dutch/flemish people, and Im pretty sure Jarmo is not a common name to them. but if you guys want, I'll take a few seconds to ask ;)

Let me get this straight, we are posting in a thread about Scandinavian...men?  How wrong is that??   ;D