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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.


6 posted on 12/08/2023 7:35:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

4th millennium BC would be Neolithic (agriculturalists) not Paleolithic (hunter-gatherers).


13 posted on 12/08/2023 7:56:48 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No, not hunter-gatherers. By then, agriculture was in full swing across Europe.


17 posted on 12/08/2023 8:11:02 AM PST by nwrep
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is only evidence that they used them - that they built them is an assumption.


20 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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