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   XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/4/25 22:55, c186282 wrote:   
   > Some TV idiots like to claim 'aliens' or 'god-like beings'   
   > were responsible. Kinda doubt it. The old structures are   
   > damned good, but not 'alien civ' sophisticated. Hey, humans   
   > are CLEVER - don't necessarily NEED 'aliens'.   
   >   
   > HOW some of these things were built, STILL a big mystery   
   > however ... it'd be super-difficult even with modern   
   > methods/machines.   
   >   
   > Maybe the oldest thing anyone wants to ADMIT to are   
   > the Gobekli Tepe 'temples' ... WAY better than   
   > Stonehenge. 10-12000 years old. Was NOT so long ago   
      
   Humans require 2000 to 3000 calories a day. Before agriculture   
   that food to be gatherred/hunted (no significant food storage)   
   each day. Because everything had to be carried from camp to camp,   
   the technology was inefficient.   
      
   This meant after a big kill the family could loll around a few   
   days telling stories and crafting more artistic arrowheads. Then   
   on to the next camp getting hungrier and hungrier until the next   
   big kill.   
      
   Our ancestors had long distance trade, fine arts, rocking hot   
   music nobody can hear today, but they had trouble getting enough   
   calories in one place for a sustained time to survive as well   
   spend calories carving and moving big chunks of rock. We were   
   thinking deep thoughts about how the universe worked. Sometimes   
   the effort was deemed worthwhile.   
      
   The surprising thing about Gobekli Tepe is not the intellect,   
   artistry, and skill. Humans be smart. The surprise is the degree   
   of social engineering that fed it.   
      
   There is an argument about the age of the Sphinx. The argument of   
   archaeologists against the geologists is at the time of proposed   
   construction there is no evidence of an economy that could   
   sustain the work. Then Gobekli showed up. It is too far from the   
   Nile to prove anything, but it did show hunter gatherrers could   
   organise and feed large communal projects.   
      
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