The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected

[Warpy]

Thousands of years before ancient people in Central Eurasia learned to farm, hunter-gatherer groups in the subarctic were building some of the first permanent, fortified settlements, challenging the notion that agriculture was a prerequisite for societies to 'settle down'.

Researchers now think they have dated the earliest known fortifications in the icy north, if not the world, near a curve of the Amnya River in Western Siberia.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-oldest-settlements-were-built-by-a-culture-nobody-expected

(Don't know what's so surprising, mesolithic people from Star Carr to Jericho to Catal Hoyuk were living in organized settlements without wall art or tools that would indicate early agriculture)

[barbaraann]

1. Siberia has a fascinating history.

Peter the Great outlawed the unauthorized excavation of ancient burial mounds and saved a lot of treasures from looters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Collection_of_Peter_the_Great

[Srkdqltr]

2. Amazing.

[erronis]

3. Couldn't be true. Some know-everything US congress-critters

swear on a stack of various bibles written by thousands of different scribes that:

THE WORLD IS 6000 YEARS OLD. AND WAS CREATED IN 6 DAYS.

Needles to say, they have no words on what happened before that period. And they don't care. They just want the stupids to keep sending money for their opulent lifestyles.

[Jerry2144]

4. Why don't they ask Keith Richards

He probably remembers where the first settlements were built