This thing is going to be conundrum for archaeologists if historical records don't survive.
- Is it a religious site like a pyramid, church, or stonehenge? Nope.
- It sets up all sorts of star alignments consistent with constellations as they would have appeared when the site was built. Was it a facility for astronomers then? Nope.
- The local people must have overwhelmingly supported such a project for it to have been built, right? Nope.
- There must be others like it indicating some form of regionally distributed cultural practice? Nope.
- So much effort went into building it that it must have been intensively used, right? Nope.
Relevant article + discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014034
This thing is going to be conundrum for archaeologists if historical records don't survive.
- Is it a religious site like a pyramid, church, or stonehenge? Nope.
- It sets up all sorts of star alignments consistent with constellations as they would have appeared when the site was built. Was it a facility for astronomers then? Nope.
- The local people must have overwhelmingly supported such a project for it to have been built, right? Nope.
- There must be others like it indicating some form of regionally distributed cultural practice? Nope.
- So much effort went into building it that it must have been intensively used, right? Nope.
Reminds me of Anathem.