The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claims
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Re: The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claims
#2It's going to rewrite every pyramid conspiracy theory. Someone is probably already recording a video about how stone age people didn't have the technology to stack stones.
Re: The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claims
#3It's going to rewrite every pyramid conspiracy theory. Someone is probably already recording a video about how stone age people didn't have the technology to stack stones.
> didn't have the technology to stack stones.
Obviously it's coded in a Python stack or something.
Re: The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claims
#4It's going to rewrite every pyramid conspiracy theory. Someone is probably already recording a video about how stone age people didn't have the technology to stack stones.
> didn't have the technology to stack stones. Obviously it's coded in a Python stack or something.
In 100 years I can guarantee someone will suggest Python was gifted to us by Aliens.
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#5> they say that the evidence from Gunung Padang indicates that advanced construction techniques existed before agriculture was adopted.
wow if this is true, this is truly revolutionary.
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#6This is one of those things that feels like “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Just going by Bayesian priors, I would say that the chances of the dating being wrong are higher than this pyramid actually having been constructed as a masonry pyramid in 25,000 BCE.
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#7The dating of this site is so strange. Why would there be continuous pyramid building at this site for 25k years? How could a culture maintain some kind of cohesive activity over such a long time?
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#8Better article with link to paper: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-evidence-strongly-indonesia-gu...
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#9Wiki is sceptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang
Re: The pyramid of Gunung Padang began construction in the deep past, study claims
#10This is one of those things that feels like “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Just going by Bayesian priors, I would say that the chances of the dating being wrong are higher than this pyramid actually having been constructed as a masonry pyramid in 25,000 BCE.
> Over the years 2011 to 2015, they studied the structure using seismic tomography, electrical resistivity tomography and ground-penetrating radar. They also drilled down into the hill and collected core samples that allowed them to use radiocarbon dating techniques to learn the ages of the layers that make up the hill.
Here's the full paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912