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Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, built around 12,000 years ago, features T-shaped stone pillars weighing 10–20 tons each. It predates agriculture, suggesting humans first gathered not for food but for religious reasons.
From 6500 to 2000 BCE, Neolithic communities in southeastern Europe deliberately burned their villages every 75–80 years. The absence of human remains and extreme fire intensity suggest intentional arson. Archaeology calls this the "Burned House Horizon."
Corn's ancestor is teosinte, a plant resembling foxtail grass with almost nothing edible. Humans spent centuries on selective breeding, picking the best mutations, to create modern corn. Today, a single corn kernel has more nutrition than an entire ear of ancient teosinte.