Ancient What is the oldest man made structure on earth?

[little graham]

Does anyone know? I was lead to believe Stonehenge.

 

[CM86]

I'm gonna take a wild guess, and say whatever answer is given, you will say it's wrong, call racism, and state something about an Aboriginal structure being the oldest.

 

[GreyCrow]

Just to narrow the parameters. Does it have to be still standing?

 

[Procrastinator35]

 

[Happy Mastenator]

If only there was some sort of search engine on the web where you could find out answers to straightforward questions.

 

[Feerits Elf]

Tania Hird's breasts.

 

[Glacier]

Does anyone know? I was lead to believe Stonehenge.

Skara Brae is alot older I think

 

[little graham]

If only there was some sort of search engine on the web where you could find out answers to straightforward questions.

What a brilliant idea, you should patent it?

 

[Pessimistic]

The first Ikea?

 

[Stronzo]

If only there was some sort of search engine on the web where you could find out answers to straightforward questions.
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You can't date when stone was cut, so this is far from a straightforward question.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ent-structure-Indonesia-20-000-years-old.html

 

[GreyCrow]

You can't date when stone was cut, so this is far from a straightforward question.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ent-structure-Indonesia-20-000-years-old.html

But you can date tools. The article itself balances the view with

However, Dr Hilman’s controversial findings are disputed and 34 Indonesian archaeologists and geologists have submitted a petition criticising the projects’ methods and motives.

They say that the excavation threatens the preservation of the site as it is and are annoyed at the prospect of involving civilian archaeologists in the excavation.

Volcanologist Sutikno Bronto believes that the structure isn’t a pyramid at all, but the neck of an old volcano and that the stones surveyed have been weathered by nature instead of being cut by humans.

Another anonymous expert is sceptical that such an ancient civilisation could have been advanced enough to build a pyramid so many thousands of years ago, when tools recovered from a nearby cave, dating to 7,000 BC were very primitive

To be honest the site does look like a tip.

 

[Stronzo]

But you can date tools. The article itself balances the view with

However, Dr Hilman’s controversial findings are disputed and 34 Indonesian archaeologists and geologists have submitted a petition criticising the projects’ methods and motives.

They say that the excavation threatens the preservation of the site as it is and are annoyed at the prospect of involving civilian archaeologists in the excavation.

Volcanologist Sutikno Bronto believes that the structure isn’t a pyramid at all, but the neck of an old volcano and that the stones surveyed have been weathered by nature instead of being cut by humans.

Another anonymous expert is sceptical that such an ancient civilisation could have been advanced enough to build a pyramid so many thousands of years ago, when tools recovered from a nearby cave, dating to 7,000 BC were very primitive

To be honest the site does look like a tip.

Yes, there is conjecture with this site as well as the Bosnian pyramids the Egyptian pyramids Stonhenge and others. My point was more that it's not a question that can really be accurately answered at present.

I think the history of human civilisation/construction certainly predates what the orthodox histories would have us believe.

 

[smokingjacket]

There seems to be more work in ancient archeology coming out with improvements in technology.

Relatively recently in academic terms is Gobleki Tepe. Pre-dating agriculture and turning many of our anthropological explanations of how civilisation started on their head. Worth a wiki.

 

[FredLeDeux]

"The fact is that building a pyramid is fairly easy, aside from the lifting. You just pile up stones in receding layers, placing one layer carefully upon another, and pretty soon you have a pyramid. You can't help it. In other words, it is not in the nature of a pyramid to fall down…"
Will Cuppy

 

[little graham]

"The fact is that building a pyramid is fairly easy, aside from the lifting. You just pile up stones in receding layers, placing one layer carefully upon another, and pretty soon you have a pyramid. You can't help it. In other words, it is not in the nature of a pyramid to fall down…"
Will Cuppy

The guy obviously didn't study the foundations.

 

[Kram]

 

[Power Raid]

Uluru

 

[little graham]

Uluru

I'm keen to hear about that.

 

[FredLeDeux]

I'm keen to hear about that.

The pharaohs made the slaves build it during the dry season.

 

[little graham]

The pharaohs made the slaves build it during the dry season.

Can you provide me a link to that please?

 

[FredLeDeux]

Can you provide me a link to that please?

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Pyramids_in_the_Pacific.html?id=YxujPQAACAAJ

 

[little graham]

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Pyramids_in_the_Pacific.html?id=YxujPQAACAAJ

Good book, thanks for that! There should be some useful information in thier.

However. Nothing on uluru in that. There's nothing in dreamtime stories either. Science also says otherwise.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Good book, thanks for that! There should be some useful information in thier.

However. Nothing on uluru in that. There's nothing in dreamtime stories either. Science also says otherwise.

He skims over the Geelong/Egypt connection.
After all, the derivation of Cairo from Corio is pretty obvious.

 

[Power Raid]

Any clues?

 

[Power Raid]

Still no answer to the OP?