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"estimated to date from around 1,050–400 BCE, and are thought to have been used as ritual spaces, where people gathered to meet, and to watch processions" In t
by akomtu 5y ago
"estimated to date from around 1,050–400 BCE, and are thought to have been used as ritual spaces, where people gathered to meet, and to watch processions"
In this sentence there are 0 facts and 4 brazen speculations.
Edit. Although I agree with at least one speculation:
"they were representing cosmological ideas through these ceremonial spaces"
- lokimedes 5y agoThat is the state of archeology. When thinking about how hard it is to make anthropology and sociology “proper” sciences even today with social media as datasets - just consider how hard solving the same problem, inversely, based on whatever scraps survived today is.
- hasmanean 5y agoAgreed. Every culture has invented A central plaza surrounded by buildings…the only cosmological idea it embodies is that “tall tightly packed buildings block the wind.” Ours is the civilization in history to build urban wind canyons, buildings with wide open roads between them. We also have less people occupying those spaces than even moderately sized European towns.
- acjohnson55 5y agoDid you read the underlying research? That might explain why they think this.