Step Pyramids

As it turns out, building a large pile of rocks is the simplest way to build a large structure.

>>320706

nah man, aliums.

ayy lmao

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>>320702
Another at Gavrinis that dates to 3500BC

>>320706
I've said that many times.

WE WUZ GAUL PHARAOS

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>>320722


They're connect to the Irish ones

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>>320728
> connected

pic related

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They even had an OBELISK with their Step Pyramids.

>predates any structure in Egypt

Except Egypts pyramids are way older.

WE WUZ ARD RİS AN SHIT

>>320702
sphinx enclosure could be older than 10,500BC

>>320776
There are no cultures in the Egyptian archaeological layers that could build massive structure until the late 4th Millennium.

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Pyramids have to be pyramid-shaped to be pyramids.

This is more of a mound or a pile. Also it's from closer to 4300-4100 BC.

>Although some initial radiocarbon dates among a long series, when recalibrated, suggested that the Barnenez tombs were built very early in the fifth millennium B.C., analyses of the forms of the tombs and the contexts of the charcoal samples used for dating now point toward a date of approximately 4300–4100 B.C.

>>320722
>>320763
Why must you meme?

>>320792
> There are actually two burial chambers – the first one dates back to around 4500BC and is made of dolerite, while an addition made a few hundred years later was built using granite from the Île de Sterec.

It was used as a quarry, so half of it was destroyed.

> Inside, there are 11 passage tombs although the cairn’s interior is not open to the public. As a result of the site being used as a quarry until the 1950s, some of the chambers are partially exposed.

>>320788
how was it excavated early enough to be eroded by water?

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Nous été rois et reines.

>>320814
The whole of Egypt has no archaeological layers that correspond to a culture that built huge statues prior to the late 4th millennium.

>>320812
It's still not a pyramid though. I don't know why people love to call things pyramids so much.

Also a tourist website isn't a very reliable source.

>>320836
Oh, you want a wikipedia page instead, huh?

>>320715

>>320840
What?

I'm basing the 4300-4100 BC date off a reliable book, so I'm obviously going to go with that over wikipedia or a tourist website. If a better book gives a different date I'll go with that.

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>>320836
>>320873

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_d'Accoddi

4000 BC - 3600 BC

Step Pyramid

>>320895
Alright, but that's from a completely different culture so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

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>>320895
Classic Step Pyramid/Ziggurat of Mesopotamia.

>>320924
Sardinia is also a part of the Neolithic Expansion.

>>320736
The Irish ones are so much more aesthetic

>>320814
>limestone
Basically a sand castle desu

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>>320924

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>>320935
So? Neolithic Europe was hardly one culture.

>>320936
That one's a really bad 'reconstruction', which is why it looks so monumental. Knowth, a nearby site, is a more realistic restoration, which still looks pretty cool.

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>>320956
Not sure what you're trying to say here.

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>>320972
>So? Neolithic Europe was hardly one culture.

> Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

> http://dienekes.blogspot.ie/2015/11/neolithic-farmers-from-greece-and.html

> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16152.html

> The new samples include, to our knowledge, the first genome-wide ancient DNA from Anatolian Neolithic farmers, whose genetic material we obtained by extracting from petrous bones, and who we show were members of the population that was the source of Europe’s first farmers.

>>320988

this
>>321027

>>321027
I still don't see what you're trying to prove here. Genetic relation doesn't mean you share a culture.

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>>321055

>>321061
What the fuck.

>>320702
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_world#By_age>>320706
>>320728
>>320736
so it turns out that scotland is the cradle of civilisation

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>>321141
Yeah, I would loved to have lived there.

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>>320793

wherever i am, i must also meme

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Fuck you /his/, you can take your faggy board and go to hell.

>>321244
Not sure the beaker is particularly convincing, the burial is interesting though.

>>321027
Yes, and they blended with local cultures and later evolved new ones, which gives you a bunch of different cultures in the end.

>>321244
What are you trying to prove? The neolithic farmer expansion is a rather well known historical phenomena.