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Mysterious Building -- Older Than Pyramids?

Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:18 CDT

British archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a mysterious prehistoric structure that might be older than Egypt's pyramids.

Discovered during work at a housing development in Monmouth, Wales, the bulky feature consists of a series of trenches possibly housing the timber foundations of a massive building.

"We have what appear to be huge parallel sleeper beams set close to the edge of an ancient, dried up lake," archaeologist Steve Clarke of Monmouth Archaeology told Discovery News.

Made from what seems to be entire tree trunks, the sleeper beams are huge, measuring more than 50 ft in lenght and more than 3 ft across.

"It's huge and presumably prehistoric but otherwise we haven't a clue what it is, we don't know how old it is and we don't know how long it is," Clarke said.

Continuing beyond the excavations, the timber structure was cut into the surface of a burnt mound, presumably dating to the Bronze Age.

Experts believe the structure could date to at least the Bronze Age, but could be early Neolithic, about 6,500 years old, thus predating Egypt's pyramids by about 2,000 years.

"I am in touch with various wetland specialists. Everyone says that they have not seen anything like it," Clarke said.

Speculations range from interpreting the structure as the foundation of an early Neolithic long house to seeing it as a large platform constructed on water-saturated soil.

What the platform was used for, and what might have been built on top of it, remains a mystery.

Radio-carbon tests of the foundations are being carried at the moment. Results are expected within a couple of weeks.

Reader Comments

Hmm

By: bngenoh

It looks pretty well manufactured to me, very regular, the dimensions given are pretty big. Would dumb primitives be able to cut, fashion, move the materials, etc in order to construct whatever it was? I don't think so.

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:55 CDT

"DUMB primitives?"

By: Callisto

What an arrogant presumption.....what evidence have you that our primitive forebears were "DUMB"? Smart enough to have survived....sufficiently skilled to have engineered, 'possibly' this structure and many others.

Granted, based on 'available' history, the early humans were as described: 'primitive' but, doubtless that refers to their possible lack of language and other evolved skills. Building, engineering and even rudimentary maths were skills they had and used.

Sad, that some current humans feel so superior to those early people. Sad, also, that some of their more humane tendencies have not remained in our current DNA. Fashioning complex structures; whether enormous buildings or tiny wooden flutes required concentration and an ability with abstract concepts. Imagination as well. We have much to 'learn' from these 'dumb primitives'.

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:52 CDT

Re:

By: bngenoh

WHOA, I never said they were dumb, but that is the mainstream conception of ancient peoples (Note that I posed it as a question). The megaliths are a testament to a much more advanced peoples than the ones now dominating the surface.

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38 CDT

Dumb people

By: Blades11

They are everywhere..... Not only did you call ancient man dumb, you said they couldn't do very very basic tasks including moving material. It's sad how people get an idea in their head without actually thinking about it for themselves, and what I mean by that is that you accept the view of mainstream media instead of using your brain to make your own view. It's brainwashing by the means of repetition, if you hear something enough times it will begin to be "normal" and when something is "normal" usually someone will accept it as fact just because others do, and no one wants to be an outcast cause that is scary.

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:41 CDT

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