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7k-Year-Old Standing Stone Circles Discovered in Saudi Arabia (artnet.com)
5 points by pseudolus 56 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Cool! Stone circles to hold timbers for a housing structure. Makes sense, if the ground is too rocky to dig post holes.

One strange comment: they found gazelle and bird bones, concluding that the peoples interacted with others further afield because they were 'non-native species'. What, did they have refrigerated trucks to transport this meat from far away? Surely those species were native at the time - isn't this finding pretty much a smoking gun for that?

Anyway, I like their interpretation of structures as domestic, instead of the lazy 'ritual purpose' explanation.




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