A thousand years before there was a Rome.
It's an interesting time to be an archaeologist.?ÿ As impressive as a circa 1700 BC plat is, researchers are still trying to figure out G??bekli Tepe in Turkey.?ÿ Numerous independent dating techniques have been used to give it an age of around 10,000 BC which predates Stonehenge and every confirmed date in Egypt.?ÿ There's speculation that the Sphinx is older than current consensus but this probably won't be resolved until the old school Egyptologist journey to the Hall of Osiris.?ÿ How did they accurately align the celestially representative monoliths of G??bekli Tepe without mathematical knowledge??ÿ?ÿ
Anyone interested in American Paleoindian or Paleolithic peoples might enjoy?ÿFirst Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer.?ÿ It does a great job of presenting the facts while giving a nod to the various theories and explains the difficulty in generating a scientific consensus.?ÿ If you want to see a knockdown drag-out fight, just get a group of historical geneticists, linguists, and anthropologists in a room and tell them you've discovered a pre Clovis site in the Americas.
