During the Stone Age, humans shifted from the nomadic lifestyle to the more settled life of farmers. A documentary on an important period of human history.
Around 12,000 years ago, humans underwent a transition from nomads to settlers. That epoch, the Stone Age, produced monumental building works. Part 1 of this two-part documentary illuminates the cultural background of these structures and shows the difficulties Stone Age humans had to contend with. Until around 10,000 BC, humans lived as hunters and gatherers. Then an irreversible change began. Settlements formed. "For millions of years humans lived as foragers and suddenly their lives changed radically. This was far more radical than the start of the digital age or industrialization," says prehistorian Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. For a long time, scholars believed that a sedentary lifestyle was a prerequisite for constructing large buildings. Then archaeologist Klaus Schmidt discovered Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, a 12,000-year-old complex of stone blocks weighing up to 20 tons. Its builders were still hunter- gatherers. They decorated the stone columns with ornate animal reliefs. How these structures were used and who was allowed access to them remains a mystery. But we now know that the site was abandoned and covered over once settlements took root. Human development continued its course. The discovery of agriculture and animal husbandry led to larger settlements, a changed diet and ultimately to dependence on material goods. This social upheaval in the late Neolithic period has influenced our lives up to the present day. But experts agree that the monuments of the Stone Age prove that humans have gigantomanic tendencies and a need to immortalize themselves.
* The first archaeological excavator of Stonehenge was Inigo Jones.
* The Millenium Falcon was built and housed in Pembroke, 2 hrs drive from Stonehenge:
* Computer generated layout of Stonehenge and the Millenium Falcon patent:
"And people love the Falcon because, well, it is a piece of junk." Which could be said about Stonehenge as well.
So they were stoners...
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Thanks for posting, I’ll have a look.
“Then an irreversible change began.”
The way the Dems are going, I don’t think it is irreversible at all. We are all going to be pre-Stone Age people once again, hunting and gathering to survive.
We should also mention that this was a time of major world-wide climate change - North Africa going from temperate to semi-desert. All of the Mega fauna disappeared at this same time.