Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "The Archeological Find That Broke History" video.

  1. Just the art work on those alone would require thousands of people.
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  2. No the dates so far are only what can be established the whole region is full of sites that simply have not been analysed in any great detail. Stone cannot be carbon dated on the materials around the stone. So finding food or wood at a site to be dated does not actually tell you how old the buildings are. It also looks like a lot of the earth around the sites was put there 11000 years ago meaning there maybe other layers to the sites that are much older.
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  3. It is not likely that those that built these structures are hunter gathers. The amount of labour that would be required to build a site of that size is beyond just simple tribal organizations. It would required varied trading but also specialized trading just for the civilizations to function. It would require things like food storage, transport, skills, education and so on just to make everything function never mind building those structures. Those sites required engineering, mathematics, craftsmen, designers, planning and so on. That site is only a fraction of what is actually in the area. But here is the thing it is not the only site on earth that falls into that ancient organised past. The sort of population for those types of developments must have been in the millions for the region.
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  4. We do not know if it is pre-pottery or not as there simply has not been enough archeology to really understand the period. I find it extremely unlikely that they had knowledge of surveying, construction and so on but not the knowledge to work with clays and fire.
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  5. Roman sites in the UK are so vast that no effort has ever been made to clean them out. There is so much material out there that is just laying around. There are fields in the UK that are just full of broken pottery and are actually part of the soil and to the naked eye they would look like stones.
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  6. Well I think their general scope is good and they do go into some good details on what is out there and not being discussed they do go into the field of speculation too much and also have weird theories that are self derived.
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  7. We do not know how old the Minoans were. The estimations of their existence is always modelled in line with the fertile crescent because it has always been assumed that no civilization existed prior to that. The Minoans have to be now examined in the light of the findings of Göbekli Tepe and we have to stop calling them neolithic as well.
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  8. That would just be speculation but who knows.
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  9. So let us get this straight you think a society that can engineer buildings like that just went out and gathered wild wheat?
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  10. Living in a city is never going to allow people to see the night sky.
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  11. Does not mean it is the oldest wheat just the oldest that the models can support.
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  12. Populations may have collapsed on their own such as Roman or ancient Egypt.
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