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Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger"
Reply #15 - Nov 11^th, 2021 at 11:41pm

Quite likely birds. But is there any chance they're ships (or boats)? I have no idea what watercraft would have looked like in this area and time period.

If you look at the one on the left, underneath the main (bird-like) object there could be oars moving through water. These could also just be the bird's legs. They reminded me of Viking ships and that's what brought the thought to mind.

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Hirtius Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 272 Gender:	Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger" Reply #16 - Nov 12^th, 2021 at 12:28am Sorry Morphy, but I haven’t found anything suggesting it lived until that recently. I’ve only read things that say the specimens found are from around 6 million years ago.
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Sarosh Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1183	Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger" Reply #17 - Nov 12^th, 2021 at 2:37am what's going on, those birds are cutting heads off! Quote: The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymphalian_birds any other, man-eating head-removing birds myth?
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 839 france Gender:	Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger" Reply #18 - Nov 12^th, 2021 at 2:44am TOMBELAINE wrote on Nov 10^th, 2021 at 3:48am: It seems that the focus has been put on the feathers to draw the wings. Sarosh wrote on Nov 12^th, 2021 at 2:37am: Quote: The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung. May be ?
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Sarosh Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1183	Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger" Reply #19 - Nov 12^th, 2021 at 3:13am @TOMBELAINE Maybe but the stymphalian birds are smaller than those horse sized things
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Re: Catal Hüyük "Slinger"
Reply #20 - Nov 12^th, 2021 at 5:28am

Hirtius wrote on Nov 12^th, 2021 at 12:28am:

Sorry Morphy, but I haven’t found anything suggesting it lived until that recently. I’ve only read things that say the specimens found are from around 6 million years ago.

We can go with any large bird if you wish. Doesnt have to be a particular species. I assume even a normal albatross would qualify. On looking back more closely I would like to have a word with the Cornell lab of Orinthology which says it went extinct 10,000 years ago while other sources give much further back. I assume they conflated teratorns in general with Teratornis woodburnensis specifically. (Or any of the other more recent teratorns.) Good catch.

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