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Archaeologists Discovered an Unprecedented Ancient Monument That Could Rewrite History

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6d ago

Archaeologists Discovered an Unprecedented Ancient Monument That Could Rewrite History

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Rewrite history? Like all of it? Or is it just adding more content? I fucking hate clickbait titles.
- No, actually, history is entirely rewritten every time some dumbas writes an article. It's fascinating, but we don't know how to stop it.
  
  Historians hate this one simple trick.
  
  But the future is set by all of us. Today, I set in motion a series of events by killing a caterpillar when removing a tree.
  130 million years from now, a future interstellar race that evolve from the butterflies will lose the war for the earth.
  Oops
- Mechanics are renowned for falling for clickbait.
The article itself is decent but that headline lol
It’s about a Bronze Age site in France built on top of an earlier Neolithic settlement: this is not uncommon by itself. The quote by an archaeologist was taken out of context
So... they found a neolithic site that was re used over the course of millennia... radiocarbon analysis has yet to take place but the stratigraphy suggests between 2200 BCE and 10,000 BCE for the oldest parts of it...
They found evidence of primitive metal working, archery, and a ceremonial burn pit / funeral pyre for sending off the deceased... and the site is essentially some concentric circles of raised earthen mounds, and ditches.
... I mean yes this is a very cool discovery, but does this not just seem to be an early, small, sort of proto settlement for hunter gatherers who lived in an area rich enough in game that... they didn't actually have to be so nomadic?
Its got primitive ceramics (not that surprising given the abundance of clay at/near the site) suggesting longer term habitation... they say they believe there was fencing as well.
Could be a sort of set aside 'sacred place' or could be that, but within or near a larger encampment made of much more temporary structures, tents, teepees, lean-tos, etc?
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Gobekli Tepe is dated to ~6,000 BCE.
And features actual stone monuments, primitive etched symbols, possibly a proto-language.
How is something arguably less advanced in many ways, from approximately the same time period 'practically impossible'?
Stuff like this is always interesting to me.

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