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A prehistoric pyramid may have just rewritten human history, scientists claim - C C - Nov 8, 2023
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy35mx/a-prehistoric-pyramid-may-have-just-rewritten-human-history-scientists-claim
EXCERPTS: A team of researchers say in a new study that Gunung Padang, a pyramid in Indonesia, is at least 16,000 years old, roughly 10,000 years older than the pyramid of Djoser in Egypt, long thought to be the world’s oldest...
[...] Gunung Padang is a pyramid-shaped mound of terraced earth adorned with ancient stone built on top of an extinct volcano. It has long been acknowledged as an ancient site, but just how old has been a matter of some debate. Most estimates have placed it under 2,000 years old, but Indonesian geologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja—one of the study's co-authors—has long claimed that the site is much older...
[...] Natawidjaja’s claims are controversial because they suggest an unknown Stone Age civilization created a monumental pyramid. ''People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong,” he said in 2013. Since then, the team’s work has been revealed in piecemeal. Last month, they published a study in the peer-reviewed journal Archaeological Prospection that concludes the oldest parts of Gunung Padang are 27,000 to 16,000 years old, based on a range of tests including electrical resistivity tomography, ground-penetrating radar, seismic tomography, and core sampling among other methods.
Using these techniques and aided by a landslide on one side of the structure that researchers say revealed a new and much earlier layer of the pyramid’s construction, the paper’s authors conclude that Gunung Padang was built in stages over millennia... (MORE - missing details)