““The complex would have been constructed by groups of hunter-gatherers who periodically gathered to celebrate rituals related to the animals represented on the pillars of the site,” stated Klaus Schmidt, the late archaeologist who led excavations until his death in 2014.” Really? Hunter-gatherers built this place? Ridiculous. People with very specialized skills built this place, not some nomadic savage.
There’s zero evidence that the site was manually covered and uncovered on some migratory cycle, yet the claim has managed to persist.
““The complex would have been constructed by groups of hunter-gatherers who periodically gathered to celebrate rituals related to the animals represented on the pillars of the site,” stated Klaus Schmidt, the late archaeologist who led excavations until his death in 2014.” Really? Hunter-gatherers built this place? Ridiculous. People with very specialized skills built this place, not some nomadic savage.
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Makes as much sense as saying that hunter gathers killed off all the megafauna in North America 12,000.
Would you want to try and kill a sabre tooth tiger with a spear? Not me.
“The complex would have been constructed by groups of hunter-gatherers who periodically gathered to celebrate rituals related to the animals represented on the pillars of the site,” stated Klaus Schmidt, the late archaeologist who led excavations until his death in 2014.”
I agree with you. That statement is pure conjecture with nothing to back it up.
A truly good archeologist would admit more often that “we do not have answers to many things, as often what we do find is not enough to fully understand what we found”.