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Re:A Prehistoric Pyramid May Have Just Rewritten Human Histo... by dougmwne on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:41PM (#38182538)
The dating of this site is so strange. Why would there be continuous pyramid building at this site for 25k years? How could a culture maintain some kind of cohesive activity over such a long time?
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Re:A Prehistoric Pyramid May Have Just Rewritten Human Histo... by lawlessone on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:51PM (#38182656)
Maybe they didn't.

IF the spot was human occupied for 25k years a lot of rubbish would build up. Maybe it's just a succession of cultures paving over the previous cultures garbage.

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Re:A Prehistoric Pyramid May Have Just Rewritten Human Histo... by ordu on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:53PM (#38182682)
It seems it was not countinuous building. Some generations really worked on it while others slacked.

Maybe there was an explanation why people need this pyramid. The explanation could outlive generations through a verbal tradition.

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Re:A Prehistoric Pyramid May Have Just Rewritten Human Histo... by wuliwong on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @02:54PM (#38195991)
There are other sites that have continuous occupation and construction over thousands of years. It is really fascinating and I'm not really sure if there's any solid understanding of it but Göbekli Tepe and Jericho seemed to have been inhabited and underwent several different stages of construction over thousands of years.
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