New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia's Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Archaeologist Lutfi Yondri from the Bureau of Archaeology [id] in Bandung estimated that the constructions at Gunung Padang may have been built sometime between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE, thus in the Indonesian late prehistoric period, whereas Harry Truman Simanjuntak suggested a later date in historical times between the 6th and 8th centuries CE.[9] Pottery fragments found at the site were dated by the Bureau of Archaeology in the range 45 BCE – 22 CE.[10]

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorr to repeat here, but I am quite suspect too, especially with the journal it is in. I’d expect it to be in something either big or more specific, like Geoarchaeology. I debated about posting because I think you reported the other, but I am gonna keep it up this time and I wish I could pin this. I do not have time to dive deeper into the paper tonight, but I want to do that later, so I think this will also be another reminder for me! ;)

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• trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I saw this on Ancient Apocolypse

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope you were watching to laugh at the ridiculousness? Here’s a good response series.

    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtMIzD-Y-bMHRoGKM7yD2…

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    • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks for remindjng me of this series! I don’t have an archeology background but did study some history and it’s interesting (and unfortunate) how similar the fight between actual academic work and more popular pseudo histories is between the fields.

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    • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope you were watching to laugh at the ridiculousness?

      not specifically

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I was gonna say it’s more or less a direct lift from AA.

    IIRC the Indonesian patient has Bauhaus created institutions of very poor repute to determine that this mountain is actually a pyramid. It’s so daft.

    Like are voids deep in a volcano going to be secret chambers or just lava tunes?

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    • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the Indonesian patient has Bauhaus created

      what

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