Michael Button
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As in, what do you mean allegedly?
I guess, yeah, it could have been us.
But what they attribute it to is Homo heidelbergensis, who's our last common ancestor with Neanderthals.
So they're kind of the human species that came before Homo sapiens.
So I guess you're right.
It could have been Homo sapiens, and we're just not sure how old we are, but...
It's kind of attributed to Homo heidelbergensis.
And the only reason this structure survived at all is because pretty soon after its construction, it must have fallen into a bog.
And then that bog kind of got solidified over by the sun.
And then it was preserved in waterlogged sediment, which protected it from decay for almost half a million years until it was discovered by us recently.
I think about five years ago, maybe.
Was it 2019 or something?
So, another monkey wrench.