The large stones visible in this photo of Stonehenge are "Sarsen" stones erected by the people who were replaced by the Bell Beaker culture.
Maybe it's just me but I have always wondered what is the point of these stones. Were they for a use or purpose? Were they a sacred space for something like worship?
This means that the people who built most of Stonehenge between 5,100 and 4,600 years ago disappeared and were almost entirely replaced by a new, Yamnaya-descended population, just a century later.
Just the fact that these people disappeared basically without a trace is really interesting to me. Where did they go?
What if people who gathered plant foods noticed that seeds they dropped in camp grew into the very plants they had found and brought back home with them?
I feel like this could really be an actual reason and it seems interesting. I feel like majority of people spend time trying to find out other complex reasons for this but it actually takes more thinking and being more creative to come up with the idea that it literally could have been an accident.
a 5,300 year old mummified body discovered in a melting glacier in the Alps between Austria and Italy in 1991. Ötzi was about 45 years old at the time of his death, and had lived on a diet of ibex, chamois, and red deer meat, einkorn wheat, roots, and fruits. Ötzi’s genes show a very high proportion (over 90%) of Anatolian farmer ancestry
I just find it really interesting how a mummified body over 5,300 can be discovered and still tell a lot of information. Like the age of death and his diet.