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I visited the dig and went on a tour around the site led by MPP.

At the time,while standing on one of the floors, he swept his hand around and speculated that there could have been hundreds of houses within the local landscape. We don't know; we can only count those which we have found, but there's plenty of room for more.

baza wrote:
I visited the dig and went on a tour around the site led by MPP.

At the time,while standing on one of the floors, he swept his hand around and speculated that there could have been hundreds of houses within the local landscape. We don't know; we can only count those which we have found, but there's plenty of room for more.

It's a long shot but one thing that struck me about the site was that it could have had a function similar to Varanasi ,a place where the dying went to die .

At the time,while standing on one of the floors, he swept his hand around and speculated that there could have been hundreds of houses within the local landscape. We don't know; we can only count those which we have found, but there's plenty of room for more.


Very true, but speculative. On the other hand there may be no more, just the ones found. Why is it that archeaologist speculate all the time yet pour scorn on a laymans speculation. I know that Stonehenge could have been the work of less than 100 men and these same 100 men could have transported and erected the stones in less than 20 years. When I see the remains of homes for 1000 workers then I'll admit that Neolithic man may have been a lot less intelligent than I give him credit for.

One other question, if hundreds of men must have been needed for the construction of Stonehenge how many men would have been needed to move the Balbek stone? And where did they live?