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The Origins of Civilisation

The Ancients

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The Origins of Monumentality

There are some interesting examples, which seem to suggest certain societies possessed monuments, monumental buildings, or religious systems prior to the mid holicene too. One is from central ukraine, also around 15 thousand years ago, the side of mezric. This was discovered in t 19 sixties by a local farmer. A hundred 50 different individual mammoths might be represented at the sight. Staggering to consider how you would harvest that material.

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