Gobegli tepe pushes back the dates for megalithic stone work to roughly 9000 bc
“Gobegli tepe pushes back the dates for megalithic stone work to roughly 9000 bc”
Yes, and unlike Egypt but more like examples we have in South America, little no “writing” by the builders to be deciphered, and thus so little we have for learning about just who the builders were.
My own view of Machu Pichu is that the Inca, whose empire was not terribly old when the Spanish arrived, inherited and used the complex but did not build it.
With many such civilizations their “measuring” instruments perished with them.