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Colossal stone monument built 1,000 years before Stonehenge shows neolithic engineers understood science. (flipboard.social)

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Colossal stone monument built 1,000 years before Stonehenge shows neolithic engineers understood science.

From @Smithsonianmag: "A recent study of the Menga dolmen in Spain reveals complex construction techniques used roughly 6,000 years ago."

https://flip.it/hZTfa9

Here's the original study from Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1295

#Engineering #Archaeology #Anthropology #Science #History #Spain

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If all you had was rocks, time, and wealth, you'd figure shit out too

Can't remember what that's from, but it's true.

Generations tend to get "smarter" but it's more about what knowledge they're exposed to, not that people are intrinsically smarter now.

The humans alive 6,000 years ago weren't stupid, they were just mostly uneducated. So when the smartest job was building things with rocks, a lot of really smart people figured out good ways to build with rocks.