Thanks for the ping! Glad they found the settlement, should put paid to the "this was an annual ritual pilgramage site" BS.
Thanks for the ping! Glad they found the settlement, should put paid to the "this was an annual ritual pilgramage site" BS.
I’m going to deviate from all the humorous replies here and agree with you, Civ. It makes perfect sense that a ceremonial/pilgrimage site needs to be maintained, as well as having accommodations for pilgrims, shops selling food and drink, souvenirs, amulets, charms, etc. Those people would have to live close to the site to do that.
Probably wasn’t much different than “holy” sites in Greece, the Roman Empire, etc-there are still people maintaining holy sites and selling stuff there all over the world today-people really haven’t changed all that much in the last 10,000 years...
Imagine hunter-gatherers building homes... 🤔 Maybe they were just rest rooms for the workers. There’s a possible Neolithic village near there; don’t have the name on this tablet, just my main computer.
