This Discovery Rewrites Human History Forever

Evidence Suggests Human Construction 800,000 Years Ago. If true, this completely re-writes the story of human history and civilization...

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Early humans were apparently nomads — roaming the land, hunting and gathering. Civilization, we’re told, didn’t begin until only 5,000 years ago.Permanent settlements? Not earlier than 10,000 years ago. And real intelligence — language, culture, abstract thinking — supposedly didn’t appear until just 50,000 years ago, during the so-called 'Cognitive Revolution.'

But what if that story is wrong?

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One archaeological site in particular shatters the traditional timeline: Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, in modern-day Israel. Dated to nearly 800,000 years ago and linked to Homo heidelbergensis, this site isn’t just a scattering of ancient tools. No, It shows signs of repeated human occupation — and not for days or weeks, but across multiple layers spanning millennia. This wasn’t a quick stop-off. It was almost certainly a permanent settlement...

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Sources:

Gesher Benot Ya’aqov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity?utm

https://davidgraham86.medium.com/its-common-consensus-the-cognitive-revolution-did-not-occur-till-around-50-000-years-back-7ea4ac798106

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36376603/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/world/earliest-evidence-of-cooking-with-fire-scn/index.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379108001480

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1180695

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285395160_Homo_heidelbergensis_and_the_Beginnings_of_Modern_Thinking

Kalambo Structure

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalambo_structure

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/20/africa/oldest-wooden-structure-zambia-scn

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/20/oldest-wooden-structure-discovered-on-border-of-zambia-and-tanzania

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-notched-logs-that-may-be-the-oldest-known-wooden-structure-180982942/

Complex Language

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2019/9894571?utm

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721820115?utm

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3733005/?utm

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5491372/?utm (children language invent)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17949978/

Extra Sources

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2015/12/11/acheulian-site-gesher-benot-yaaqov-israel/

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-ancestors-and-domestication/

https://www.newscientist.com/definition/occams-razor/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230201/

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/theory-of-evolution/

https://theconversation.com/evolution-doesnt-proceed-in-a-straight-line-so-why-draw-it-that-way-109401

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