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m site since 2019.” ( source ) “ Karahantepe houses more than 250 T-shaped megaliths featuring animal depictions. “ Archaeologists have excavated around 1% of the 60,000 sq. Karahan Tepe is enormous, and undergoing investigation now - it’s not a tourist site yet. Göbekli Tepe was mysteriously buried by its creators in about 8000 BC, and evidently the even older Karahan Tepe was too. Karul told the Anadolu Agency that while it is hard to fully comprehend what this was trying to show, it did indicate that human–animal relations 11,000 years ago were very different. One sculpture found at the Karahantepe site that is even more fascinating than the rest is of a human figure carrying a leopard on his/her back. ” The first chamber of excavated stones has been named the penis chamber, for its 11 giant erect stone penises, and everywhere there are carvings of men with their hands over their genitals. They have found repeated images of people with 6 fingers and evidence of a skull cult (defleshed skulls with holes for hanging them) “ At a nearby, slightly younger site, the Skull Building of Cayonu, we know of altars drenched with human blood, probably from gory sacrifice. It is thought to date between 11000 to 13000 BC. A Most Agreeable Pastime operates as an independent site, and all opinions expressed are those of the author.Sean Thomas was one of the first Western writers to visit and write about it, and his recent piece on the even older neighboring Karahan Tepe blew me away with its weirdness.

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And considering how compelling it is, I expect to see many more games follow in its footsteps.Ĭloud Gardens is out now in Early Access, and the developer Noio Games (aka Thomas van den Berg) estimates a full release in around three months’ time.ĭisclosure statement: Early Access code for Cloud Gardens was provided by Future Friends Games. It’s just about making a lovely garden.Īlong with Townscaper, Cloud Gardens proves there is amazing scope for making games with the sole goal of creating something beautiful to look at. But unlike that game, it’s supremely relaxing thanks to the lack of a time limit or any other real objectives. Like Hardspace: Shipbreaker, it’s a game that can easily generate a flow state whereby the passage of time seems to be suspended. It’s fantastically simple, but also wonderfully compelling – and before I knew it, four hours had flown by without me noticing. The only real challenge is arranging the rubbish you’re given in an efficient way to propagate the seeds – run out of rubbish and you’re prompted to restart the level. And after you have covered enough of the urban blight with beautiful foliage, you’re given the option to move on to the next diorama and do it all over again.Īnd that’s pretty much it. Once your plants have grown sufficiently big enough thanks to all that mystical garbage energy, they’ll start putting out flowers, which you can harvest for more seeds. After you plop the seed onto the landscape, you’re given more rubbish to place, rubbish which has the magical property of making plants grow if you place it near a seed. Then you’re given a seed – a wisteria seed to start with, then later seeds for things like cacti and mosses. You’re presented with a little urban diorama filled with human detritus, like, say, broken TVs and a knackered old car. Well, it is a game, but it’s more about sculpture.

Cloud Gardens has just come out in Early Access, and what an absolute joy it is to play.

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