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    Default Mysterious "Monolith" found off the coast of Siciliy believed to be 10,000 years old.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000044
    http://www.iflscience.com/environmen...cilian-channel


    A submerged man-made monolith 12 meters (40 feet) in length has been discovered in a shallow bank of the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily that's believed to date back some 10,000 years.

    Weighing approximately 15 tons (30,000 pounds), the large structure was found 40 meters (130 feet) below the surface in an area that thousands of years ago wasn’t entirely submerged by the sea. Such a structure suggests not only human activity on the Pantelleria Vecchia Bank, but organized and skilled cooperation.



    Found by a group of researchers surveying the area, extensive analysis of the monolith suggests that the structure, a piece of limestone, was cut and moved as a single piece of rock – despite now lying on the seabed in two pieces.

    The Pantelleria Vecchia Bank wasn’t swallowed by the sea until roughly 9,350 years ago. It is thought that the rising tide forced the Stone Age residents to move camp and abandon their creation to the sea.



    Researchers are currently unsure of the monolith's purpose and meaning, but the find does provide exciting evidence of significant Mesolithic human activity in the region.

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    This is when Sicily and Tunisia were geographically closer... I would suspect this to have been built by the Sicanians, who were likely related to both Sardinians and Berbers.

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    bump

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    Interesting. Perhaps it could be related to the Göbekli Tepe and indicating that at at the moment existed a broader Mediterannean culture which shifted from hunter-gathering to such early Neolithic (?) buildings, however, the technological jump is still a mystery or simply the current understanding of hunter-gatherers is not good enough.

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    could it be that it was trasported on a ship that then sank and eroded away?

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