[BenLurkin]

The town of Bedrock?

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

[chief lee runamok]

"Around 35,000 megalithic graves, standing stones, stone circles and stone buildings or temples still exist, many located near coastlines. Radiocarbon dating has suggested that these structures were built between roughly 6,500 and 4,500 years ago."

Finding gainful employment was difficult for prehistoric man, the rock work was likely accomplished by bored individuals.

[DoodleBob]

I'm surprised this wasn't posted sooner.

[Kirkwood]

Sun worshippers.

[Nellie Wilkerson]

This article sez, “Radiocarbon dating has suggested that these structures were built between roughly 6,500 and 4,500 years ago.”

I don’t understand. How does radiocarbon dating distinguish between the age of the structures and the age of the rock they’re made from?

[Honest Nigerian]

FWIW - I have brothers who are geologists. Isn’t that weird? There are people that date rocks. (I guess that one of the next sexual perversions we hear about will be people who want to marry rocks, and ..........

[PIF]

They likely first appeared in North Africa then spread north. The only reason this is not more widely known is because most of North Africa is a lawless muslim hellhole.

The easiest example although not as old perhaps (but has never been studied) I could find the morning:

Libyan stone remains of unknown date, though undoubtedly pre-Roman, known as Senam Bu-Samida in Ghirrah. Figure 31 on page 138 from H. S. Cowper, The Hill of Graces: A Record of Investigation among the Trilithons and Megalithic Sites of Tripoli, London, 1897.

[trebb]

They were childlike and huge stones were exciting to see and exhilarating to manipulate...goes with Caber tossing and other strong man exhibitions...