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"A long line of stones which is over a mile in length" could easily be laid by a single person in a relatively short time without any special skills, tools, or
by prvc 4y ago
"A long line of stones which is over a mile in length" could easily be laid by a single person in a relatively short time without any special skills, tools, or knowledge.
Note: the structure described above seems to be a bit more than this.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoSure, but what prompted them to do it? When did they do it? What else do we know about them?
- flandish 4y ago> them Welp, if the TV series “Ancient Aliens” has told us anything it’s that if there is any chance “prehistoric” or “non-white” folks did it, it was aliens. Always aliens. Except when it’s time traveling white humans from the future come to the past to help “those people” carve stones. (I am mocking the horseshit show, in case anyone worries.)
- adamc 4y agoIt's a show PT Barnum would recognize.
- hammock 4y agoA fence?
- animal_spirits 4y agoThe article posted by the top commentor suggests it was used for herding caribou
- henryfjordan 4y agoBut why? Religion? Marking territory boundaries? Some kind of barrier to stop water flowing? Fencing for animals? I think it unlikely someone just decided to do it to mess with future archaeologists.
- bratwurst3000 4y agoThat would be amazing if someone did that. So many things we do are useless. I can imagin humans a few thousand years ago saying „ lets put some stones in a line for the fun of it“ Could we pls mess with future archeologists now!
- mtnGoat 4y agoI already do. I’ve bashed strange designs and my initials into rocks far from civilization when I’m out hiking. With the exact thought of throwing someone for a loop long into the future. They are always subtle and small (so as not to be annoying to other users ).
- spacedcowboy 4y agoTell me, have you ever been young ? :)
- unsupp0rted 4y agoSome time in the next few hundred years we will discover that the majority of mysterious archaeological finds were placed there by future humans to mess with past archaeologists.
- Telemakhos 4y agoCaribou hunting. You set these up along a path Caribou use to constrain them to a narrow route, and then you set up hunting blinds along the path. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1404404111 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1404404111
- dieselgate 4y agoOh wow very good callout and thanks for the academic (!) reference! This reminds me of the weirs used to trap fish - no surprise similar units were created on land for hunting as well
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago