Imagination and using what knowlege we have cannot do justice to trying to think what it would have been like to live in that time.
Just for a day to see what humans were up to 4 to 8 thousand years ago would be fantastic.
Insanely different in many ways, probably not that different than now in probably a few.
OK that’s my deep statement for the year :)
“...Just for a day to see what humans were up to 4 to 8 thousand years ago...”
Trying to avoid getting killed by invading barbarians, so, yes, just like Chicago.....................
True, all those Ancient Aliens shows end up “but no record exists showing why they would devote thousands of work hours and half their total wealth into building these tall stone pieces that took decades to complete.” South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa.
My ancestors came from where Stonehenge is, which was thousands of years later inhabited by the Druids who did not build the structures for their rituals. No one knows what the earlier people did who built them. Or people before that.
Britannica summary:
The people who built Stonehenge I and II were likely descendants of Neolithic migrants who came from the area around modern-day Turkey. DNA analysis of skeletons found that the Neolithic period farmers in Britain had genetic similarities to early European farmers. The study also suggests that the builders may have traveled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain.
The construction of Stonehenge is believed to have started around 3100 BCE. However, the site has been used for ceremonial purposes and modified by many different groups of people over time.