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5700-year-old monumental Menga Dolmen reveals it as one of the greatest feats of Neolithic engineering
Arkeonew ^
| December 6, 2023
| Oguz Kayra
Posted on 12/08/2023 7:25:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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12/08/2023 7:25:02 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/08/2023 7:26:03 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:27:34 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks very Frank Lloyd Wright-ish................
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:28:50 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
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12/08/2023 7:30:08 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow, that is astonishing.
I’m always amazed that hunter-gatherers had enough surplus food to release the labor needed to construct such things.
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:35:53 AM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: Red Badger
Cool.
A Neolithic garage.
To: SunkenCiv
Designed by giants,
made by Giants...Occam’s Razor...
Just like the pyramids ...The most logical simplest solution is usually the true solution.
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:37:44 AM PST
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bunkerhill7
(Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
To: bunkerhill7
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:39:10 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: GaltAdonis
The original ‘Fixer-Upper’.................
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:39:34 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
These were actually quite commmon in Bedrock.
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Quite so. The Yabbadabbadoo era of the Neolithic was probably the most important to posterity.
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posted on
12/08/2023 7:54:53 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
4th millennium BC would be Neolithic (agriculturalists) not Paleolithic (hunter-gatherers).
To: bunkerhill7
No, it’s not, since internal space of megalithic structures are barely adequate for modern humans, and therefore — by Occam’s Razor — wouldn’t have been appropriate for giants. The architect of the Great Pyramid was buried on the Giza Plateau, and the tomb isn’t giant sized.
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12/08/2023 7:57:37 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
FLW never saw a good idea that he didn’t steal. ;^)
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12/08/2023 7:58:22 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Verginius Rufus
OK, I stand corrected.
But my point remains. Was agriculture productive enough to release all that labor needed to build such a structure?
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posted on
12/08/2023 8:07:07 AM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
No, not hunter-gatherers. By then, agriculture was in full swing across Europe.
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posted on
12/08/2023 8:11:02 AM PST
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nwrep
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yes it was. That part of Europe is very fertile and always has been.
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posted on
12/08/2023 8:12:38 AM PST
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nwrep
To: nwrep
I’ve visited Malaga, Spain. It’s a beautiful area, but southern Spain has a Mediterranean climate with mild, relatively rainy winters and hot, sunny summers. I wouldn’t think it would be very conducive to agriculture (at least without irrigation).
The daily average temperature ranges from 55 °F in January to 80 °F in August. Precipitation is not abundant hence not conducive to crops. Annual rainfall is 21 inches per year, but it follows the Mediterranean pattern where most rainfall occurs from October to March. Summers are arid and it almost never rains. The wettest months are November and December, with 4 in.
It’s a lot like the San Francisco Bay Area climate.
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posted on
12/08/2023 8:23:03 AM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
There is only evidence that they used them - that they built them is an assumption.
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posted on
12/08/2023 8:32:27 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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