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    MARCH OF THE TITANS -

    A HISTORY OF THE WHITE RACE

    Chapter 3: The Neolithic Age

    As the climate improved with the recession of the last great ice age, Late Paleolithic

    man gradually became more settled and started staying in favorable spots for longer

    than previously.

    These first fixed settlements led to a shift from a food gathering society to a food

    cultivating society, and the appearance of crops and the domestication of animals become

    features of their way of life. This change in culture is called the Neolithic Age.

    A regular and continuous food supply created by the establishment of farming meant that

    bigger populations could live in settled, more secure, areas, and this marked the first time

    that the luxury of non-food producing professions within society became possible.

    This shift from hunter-gatherer to settled agriculturalism occurred in fits and starts all

    over White occupied Europe and the Near East. The earliest farming sites in northern

    Europe are to be found in Ireland, occurring at approximately the same time as thecultivation of crops in the Mesopotamian River Valley in the Near East. As a general

    rule, the first Neolithic settlements can be said to have been established around 10,000

    BC, and the cultivation of edible plants and the domestication of animals was

    commonplace all over Europe, the Near and Middle East by 5000 BC.

    EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST - EQUALLY ADVANCED

    The existence of an original civilization on the continent of Europe

    which predates the civilizations in the Middle East, has to a large

    degree been ignored by traditional history writers, particularly those

    who wrote during the dominant Christian era in Europe.

    This was largely because of a biblical Judeo-Christian bias whichheld that all civilization started in the Near East (the biblical Old

    Testament deals exclusively with events in the Middle East, and

    conventional wisdom during the Age of the Church held that theGarden of Eden was in the Middle East).

    This is not an accurate reflection of the facts, as in many parts of

    Above: A

    Neolithic era axe

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    Europe relatively advanced societies were in existence either before or simultaneously

    with the Mesopotamian or Egyptian civilizations.

    While it is most certainly true that the great cities and states in the near and Middle East

    were towering achievements, it is incorrect to regard them as the only flowering of

    civilization in the world at that time.

    There are many huge buildings - called megaliths - and early Neolithic settlements,artifacts and burial sites and even the creation of a form of writing, which show that the

    inhabitants of Europe were advanced in the evolution of their societies and culture.

    This Old European civilization lasted for approximately 3000 years, and then fell beforewaves of new invaders, the Indo-European or Nordic tribes sweeping in from the area we

    now know as Russia.

    WHITE MEDITERRANEAN AND PROTO-NORDICS POPULATE MIDDLE EAST

    This is not to say that the original Old European inhabitants - mainly Mediterraneanracial types with a minority of Proto-Nordics - were of a different race to those

    inhabitants of the Middle and Near East at that time.

    Indeed, the first civilizations in the Mesopotamian River Valley (in present day Iraq)

    were also created by White Mediterranean and Proto-Nordic racial types, as can be seenby the large number of surviving artifacts and images dating from this period in early

    White history.

    EUROPE - ORGANIZED FARMING AND COPPER

    Cereal grain farms were established in central Europe by 8000 BC (almost simultaneouswith the Mesopotamian "Fertile Crescent" River Valley crop cultivation) with some of

    the best preserved farming settlements in France and Britain have been positively dated

    as being in existence prior to 4000 BC.

    Significantly, copper working had been established in the Balkans by the year 5000 BC -

    some 2000 years before the first civilization in the Mesopotamian River Valley.

    In Neolithic Europe, where wood was abundant, rectangular timber houses were

    constructed. Some had two rooms and even gabled roofs. Remains found in Switzerland

    dating from around 5000 BC show that even on soft, swampy ground, the builders wereable to erect houses by first laying down wooden foundations or on piles going deep into

    the ground.

    By the year 5000 BC, White Neolithic settlements had taken on the form of establishedvillages, towns and in a few cases, even cities, scattered throughout Europe, western and

    southern Russia.

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    These early Neolithic farmers cultivated cereals, and kept domesticated animals such aspigs, cattle and dogs. Farms were established across the European continent, with some

    of the best preserved sites being found in Ireland.

    Their tools and hunting weapons were mostly made of flint, and their houses of timber.

    Clothes were made of leather, and there is also evidence of weaving. Other smallimplements were made of antler and bone, and they have left many examples of fairly

    sophisticated pottery.

    BURIAL MOUNDS EXPOSE RACIAL MAKE-UP

    The leaders of this early White society were buried according to religious rituals whichare now unfortunately lost - but the physical graves are a good source of knowledge

    about their society as a whole. Important leaders were buried in specially constructed

    narrow mounds called barrows. The existence of these grave sites - and a number ofchance discoveries of less important graves - have served as valuable indicators of the

    racial make-up of these early Europeans.

    The general rule is that the further north, the more dominant Nordic or Proto-Nordic,

    while in places like Britain and central Europe, there were a significant number of Alpine

    and Mediterranean racial types.

    OLD EUROPEAN LINEAR SCRIPT - 4000 BC - BASIS FOR RUNES

    These original continental European inhabitants had also developed a form of writing -

    called Old European linear script - around the year 4000 BC. The exact origins of this

    language are lost (there is evidence that some or all of it may have come from Indo-

    European or Nordic invaders who penetrated Europe from their bases in Southern Russiaaround this time). This language most likely laid the basis for sharp angular writing

    known as runes.

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    FIRED POTTERY AND GOLD WORKING IN

    BALKANS

    Hand fired pottery was produced in the Balkans

    around 6500 BC. Cities of more than 1000

    inhabitants - huge by the standards of the time - hadbeen established approximately by the year 5000

    BC.

    There are copper mine shafts - some 20 meters deep

    - still existing in the Balkans which date from beforethe year 4000 BC.

    Gold worked jewelry discovered in the Balkans

    predates the gold working skills of the Egyptians byat least 1600 years. By the year 2500 BC, copper

    working had spread all over continental Europe, witharchaeological evidence being found of extensive

    trade between settlements in England, France,

    Holland and into central Europe .

    CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT - IRON WORKING 1000BC

    The introduction of iron working into Western and Northern Europe - around the year1000 BC - from central Europe and the Near East - ushered in a new era, and it is from

    approximately this time that the early West Europeans started building hill top forts,

    which later evolved into castles. These hill top forts are scattered all over Europe, and

    some remained in use as forts right until the time of early Christianity, some 1600 yearslater.

    MEGALITHS - FORMIDABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

    In many parts of Europe, the longest lasting remnants of this era are the megaliths ("large

    stones") which may have had some religious or recreational purpose. Massive blocks ofstone, and sometimes wood, were moved great distances and erected in chosen areas

    throughout Europe, from Britain right across the continent, some even as far as the Black

    Sea - in Southern Russia - a stupendous achievement.

    The most famous of these megalith sites is Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, which wasbuilt in stages, the first part being erected between 3500 BC and 3000 BC.

    Above: Undeciphered writing on

    the Tartaria tablet, found in

    Tartaria, Rumania, and dated at4500 BC - this competes with the

    Azilian script for the claim to the

    oldest writing on earth.

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    Above: Stonehenge, England, circa 3500 - 1500 BC. Neolithic Period.

    The stones used at Stonehenge were cut on site and used an ingenious ball and joint

    system to lock into place, as illustrated above. The ball can still be clearly seen onthe top of the upright stone, left. The White people who built Megalith monuments

    such as these were no intellectual or technical barbarians, proving wrong the often

    malicious propaganda portraying the inhabitants of early Europe as savage

    barbarians who lived in caves.

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    Above: Building Megaliths was no easy task. The effort required to

    pull one of the massive stones erect was in itself a marathon effort,

    and then raising the equally huge lintels onto the top of other stones

    required a great deal of planning and foresight. Exactly how the

    early Whites did it is still a puzzle to archeology. These illustrations

    of how the stones were raised and of how a lintel was placed are the

    most commonly accepted theories of how these superhuman feats

    were achieved thousands of years ago.

    To put this in perspective: the first stage of Stonehenge was built about 1000 years beforethe great Egyptian pyramids were built. (The last part of Stonehenge was built around the

    year 1000 BC - hundreds of years before even the Greek and Roman civilizations.)

    Neolithic farmers in Europe created a number of other impressive structures predating

    even Stonehenge.

    One of the earliest is situated quite close to Stonehenge, called (confusingly) Robin

    Hood's Ball, which consists of what appear to be circular foundations for either a large

    hall or number of buildings and a grave site (judging by the human remains found insurrounding ditches). This structure dates from the very early Neolithic time, around

    4000 BC, and indicates the establishment of set social structures at this early stage of

    European history.

    Often overlooked as historical evidence for the technological ability of the Neolithic

    settlements are the burial chambers and tombs which are scattered over large parts of

    Europe: some of the oldest megalithic chamber tombs had been radio carbon dated at

    6000 BC - some 3,500 years older than the famous Egyptian pyramids.

    Above left: Megalith temple, Malta, circa 3000 BC. Above right: Neolithic Hall,

    Bories, near Gordes in France.

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    Above: Megalith tomb walls,

    intricately carved, dating from

    before 3000 BC, Brittany, France

    There are four types of megaliths: the menhir, or monolith, a single standing stone oftenof great size; a set of menhirs set in a circle, as at Stonehenge in England; a row of

    menhirs such as those to be found at Carnac in France; and the burial chamber, or

    chamber tomb, sometimes called a dolmen.

    The chamber tombs are the most common type of megalith : more than 50,000 examples

    have been found on the European continent. Some of these tombs' interiors were

    decorated with intricate stone carvings and geometrical patterns, making stunning

    viewing even thousands of years after they were created.

    The "Lux et Orient" or "All light comes from the East" dogma which Christianity

    introduced, held that all progress and civilization came from the Middle East. With

    accurate dating methods and intensified archeological research, it has now been

    shown that advanced civilizations flourished in Europe, sometimes thousands of

    years before similar technological advances were made in the Middle East.

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    One of the oldest pyramids in the world is to be found near the

    present day town of Marlborough, in Wiltshire, Britain. Called

    Silbury Hill, it is the largest prehistoric mound anywhere in Europe,standing nearly 40 meters high. It dates from around 2660 BC,

    preceding the great pyramids of Egypt. Although today covered with

    soil, excavations have revealed a carefully constructed step pyramid

    under the silt (as shown in the illustration below). The exact purpose

    of the pyramid is unknown, but it forms part of the great Avebury

    stone ring complex, which includes a stone circle larger than

    Stonehenge and a series of barrow tombs. The enormity of the

    building stands as a monument to the intellectual abilities of the

    Whites of early Britain. These were no uncivilized barbarians who

    erected these technically sophisticated structures.

    WORLD'S OLDEST CITIES - 7000 BC

    The growth of Neolithic settlements in Europe were matched by the growth of similar

    settlements in the Middle and Near East, with once again the majority of the population

    being Mediterranean racial types with a not insignificant number of Proto-Nordics

    accompanying them, very often as tribal leaders (a tradition which was most pronounced

    in Egypt).

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    By 7000 BC a town of mud brick houses and town walls had been built byMediterraneans at the site now known as Jericho in Palestine. In Anatolia, Turkey,

    remains of another major city, Catal Huyuk, have been excavated, dating from

    approximately 6200 BC. This city also possessed brick making facilities, as well as the

    already established cereal crop cultivations.

    Above: A reconstruction of the first city in the world, Catal Huyuk, Anatolia, present

    day Turkey. This city flourished from about 6250 BC to 5400 BC, and was excavated

    in part in 1961. The photo below left, shows the rectangular shape of the buildings: as

    there is no readily available stone to build defensive walls, the buildings were made toface inwards, with no windows on the outside. The only entrance to the city was

    through ladders leading onto the roofs of the outside buildings. The streetless city

    offered a high degree of protection from outside attackers in this way - if under

    attack, the outside ladders were withdrawn, and any would be attacker was faced with

    a solid wall and no gate or other weak point. This city marked a revolution in

    Neolithic settlements. The people of Catal Huyuk were most likely farmers and cattle

    herders who needed to live closely to the broad plain stretching to the north of the

    city. Hence the shrine discovered in the city, below left, which appears to be linked to

    some sort of Bull cult.

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    All over the near East around the year 5000 BC farming villages were established uponwhich the non food producing professions could be built. At this time pottery made its

    appearance in large quantities throughout the areas of Neolithic settlement. In the Middle

    and Near East, these racial types were eventually displaced and intermingled withmassive waves of Semitic, Arabic, along with imported Negroid slaves and eventually

    even Mongoloid invaders. It is from this mixture that the modern Egyptian and many

    other North Africans are descended.

    OLD EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION

    With the creation of fixed settlements and continuous, albeit slow, technologicaladvances, it became inevitable that these communities would take their next great step:

    the creation of a system of literacy and law establishing a formal social contract between

    the individuals making up the communities.

    The creation of fixed settlements in Europe and the Near East as a result of the farmingrevolution known as the Neolithic age laid the basis for the next great leap in White

    civilization: the establishment of Old European civilizations in central Europe and in the

    Near East.

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