There's an interview with one of the researchers who found this on quirks and quarks last weekend. Quirks and quarks is a long running science show on CBC in Canada. Rather interesting, the scientist said at first they thought maybe the flood waters had washed the wood into that formation or something but there are apparently clear tool marks and signs it was deliberately formed.
Truly astonishing that hominids had the instinct to build couch cushion forts long before couches, cushions, or forts were even invented.
Instinct?
And if they built couch cushion forts, then they invented the couch, the cushions and the forts.
Truly nature is healing. Ecosystems are now abundant with couches and cushions where none existed before. It’s a return to environmental normalcy.
Here's the nature article. I've been meaning to read it but have been by had the time.
Thanks mate!
I’d be much more concerned if a half million year old structure was built by homo sapiens
Curious, why do you say that?
Like others and the article said, it predates when we believe homo sapiens first evolved by a few hundred thousand years.
So if it was built by H. Sapiens either A. We really missed the mark on when we first evolved and we need to go back and really examine our findings, or B. Time travel shenanigans.
Hint: it's pretty much definitely not B.
The photo I was talking about. Someone tried to claim it was fake, but dating proved it wasn’t.
They already have fossil footprints on photographic record of h. Sapient and dinosaurs roaming together. I’ll see if I can find a pic to post. There are a lot of fossil records predating what the Bible says happened.
Why?
I've seen enough films to know someone broke their time machine
If fossilization is the only way for you to recognize history its never going to be complete you will always be missing fragments that changes everything. I guarantee you their are billions if not trillions of species missing because we can only determine by fossilization.
Oh that was Bob...
/j
In all seriousness, this is such a cool find...
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