Gregg R Thomas

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Careful, or we’ll be joining Graham Hancock in talking about a long lost civilization and the so-called “Annunaki.”

You wonder how the Egyptians were able to move such large stones from the quarry site to the construction site?…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

If there were diagrams, we would be finding at least some of them.

There are loads.

Unseen wrote:

Your comment about Stonehenge seems to imply that it was used as a diagram of sorts… to pass along astronomical knowledge? If so, how did that designer (or designers) of Stonehenge gain the knowledge needed to do the alignment c…

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It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:

Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the S…

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Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage.  He tends to creep into these conversations.

Unseen wrote:

Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the Sun’s solstices and equinoxes.

The tombs in your viddies, Reg, date back 4900-5200 years ago, which is ancient, but only about half as ancient as Gobekli Tepe, which isn’t even the oldest site in Turkey, though it’s the most sophisticated of the ones we know.

Still, the understanding of the seasons, the universe, and stars of the Irish and other ancients (Mayans, Indians,…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

When you consider that homo sapiens has been around for about 300 thousand years, this is not too, too surprising. Neanderthals apparently just didn’t have what it takes, but the genetic material they contributed to us may have played a part.

All the settled living seems to be in the past 10-15,000 years.  I understand that the cl…[Read more]

Modern humans carry neanderthal DNA. 

And then, there’s this:

@PopeBeanie

Using LIDAR and other means, it’s been discovered that Gobekli Tepe, while being perhaps the most important complex, is far from the only one. I’m sure several dozen lesser sites have been found in the vicinity. Also, there are other recently discovered sites, notably Karahan Tepe and Mendik Tepe, which seem to be even…[Read more]