Megalithic monuments at sites like Stonehenge reflect sophisticated mathematical and geometrical understanding developed through empirical observation in the landscape and interaction with nature, distinct from the laboratory-based science model later adopted by Europeans.
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“people were clearly uh more than capable of developing very sophisticated mathematical geometrical understandings in different ways to the way we do it now...most human Discovery throughout the history of our species has actually taken place...where there are no Laboratories Discovery is part and parcel of social life it's out there in the landscape”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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