I was reading about a dig in Turkey and found out they uncovered a 12,000 year old stone circle that predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years

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There was an article about how they found animal bones carved with tally marks at that site. It might have been a way to track lunar cycles or hunting seasons. Pretty clever system for people without any written language.

park.abby25d ago

That 6,000 year gap is what gets me. We're talking about a time before farming was even a thing in most places. Someone was moving those massive stones while humans were still mostly hunter-gatherers. It completely rewrites the timeline for when people started building big, complex sites. Makes you wonder what else is buried out there that we haven't found yet.

jordan7725d ago

Exactly, @park.abby. It's wild to picture a group of hunter-gatherers just deciding to move a 20-ton rock for funsies. Like, did someone just finish a big mammoth meal and say, "You know what this band needs? A permanent stone calendar." What were the project meetings even like? It totally makes you question what other huge, old stuff is just sitting under a farmer's field or a parking lot.