{"id":633,"date":"2010-09-07T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=633"},"modified":"2010-09-07T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:01:00","slug":"wandering-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/09\/wandering-elders-633.html","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Elders Behind Megaliths?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My proposition is that megaliths and pyramids were typically built under the instruction of “mysterious elders”<\/em>, who were only temporarily involved with each culture they helped.\u00a0 This, to me, is the most logical explanation for why these construction abilities vanished from every<\/span> culture that built such structures. A new study<\/a> confirms the lack of consistent building, in Europe:<\/p>\n

Rather than a single “megalithic” culture stretching across Europe, the outburst of mound tombs likely represents an idea reaching local cultures, he suggests, which then “stopped and started” across the centuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do accept that the other possibility is that building megaliths “seemed like a good idea at the time”<\/em>, but subsequently they failed to achieve what was expected. In the modern era we have plenty of fads, so why not back then as well? But megaliths (and pyramids) are more than just fads, for they have high levels of knowledge and expertise attached to them, suggesting that it was the enablers who travelled, not the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My proposition is that megaliths and pyramids were typically built under the instruction of “mysterious elders”, who were only temporarily involved with each culture they helped.\u00a0 This, to me, is the most logical explanation for why these construction abilities vanished from every culture that built such structures. A new study confirms the lack of consistent building, in Europe:
\nRather than a single “megalithic” culture stretching across Europe, the outburst of mound tombs likely represents an idea reaching local cultures, he suggests, which then “stopped and started” across the centuries.
\nI do accept that the other possibility is that building megaliths “seemed like a good idea at the time”, but subsequently they failed to achieve what was expected. In the modern era we have plenty of fads, so why not back then as well? But megaliths (and pyramids) are more than just fads, for they have high levels of knowledge and expertise attached …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,236,49,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-megaliths","category-mysterious-elders","category-pyramids","category-stone-circles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}