Prehistoric Artifact Ages
The cluster revolves around debates on the ages of ancient human artifacts and structures, such as Gobekli Tepe, wooden tools, and potential evidence of early civilizations, questioning established timelines of human prehistory and technological development.
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Which seems to be tens of thousands of years old !http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/975360.stmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257150
True, but we haven't found anything older than 12000 years, haven't we?
Do you mean hundreds of thousands of years ago or more? Pretty sure it’s obvious the claims are about during human existence.
Fair to say this happened 11,000 years ago?
That's more than 10k years before the start of recorded history, so we definitely can't say that people didn't notice.
Reminds me of Gobekli Tepe which is also ~10K old evidence of human lost worldshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Less than 700 million years apparently.https://twitter.com/humansareawesme/status/83696170574585856...
Estimates are around 500BC max - so nothing much in the picture of known human history, and a little too young for fossils.Still amazing, and a culture it would be fascinating to better understand.
A few thousand or even a few hundred years ago: sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQjT3z0ti6UBut not 20 or 50 years ago.
It’s never sat well with me that anatomically modern humans are supposedly at least 300,000 years old but nobody got much past banging rocks together until around ten thousand years ago. I’m not an archeologist and I’m not claiming there were relatively advanced prehistoric civilizations, but I find the blanket claim that there can’t possibly have been ridiculous. With a glaciation or two along with various other weathering it sounds plausible to me that virtually all physical traces of, to give