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This is an interesting story I'd like to hear told by a non-crazy person.
by bcoates 12y ago
This is an interesting story I'd like to hear told by a non-crazy person.
- pastProlog 12y agoGunung Padang is a standard megalithic site. The site as it is built after 9600 BC (the date mentioned in the article) would be normal. A less sophisticated human settlement prior to 9600 BC would be normal. If the pyramid was built some millennia before 9600 BC as the article speculates, that would be groundbreaking anthropological news. There isn't that much evidence that that is the case though. The jury is still out, although this speculation is a bit of hype. The Indonesian press will run with it somewhat as it would affirm national pride to be one of the first civilizations. The speculation that this site was Atlantis is obviously even more far out. Lots of interesting archaeological sites have been found in the Indonesia jungles, such as the more recently created Borobudur ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur ).
- tjradcliffe 12y agoThere is some evidence for paleolithic civilization in southern Turkey (which is mentioned in the article but not central to it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe It is relatively unsurprising that there should be bursts of civilization before the wheels really got turning, but crazy people citing Plato's fictions are not worth much attention.