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The wall is clearly there to keep neighboring herds of fish separated. It’s awfully hard to brand fish, so the fences are vital to ensure harmony among the fish-herders.
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I think I learned about fish-herding in school.
too early for crap puns, mayhaps
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Blinkerwall.doommetal.bandcamp! I called it first!
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Considering we don’t know anything about the god(s) of the palaeolithic, this is a strong statement
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“Genocide and animal husbandry, it all comes from the same God/”
what?
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Wonderful way to generate heated arguments online. Might as well complain about humans big brains that led to a more efficient way to hunt (assuming thats even what this is.) I have no deep knowledge of how one survives in the stone age but I bet starvation was always on their minds.
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There’s a similar thing on the bed of Lake Huron
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He’s pretty good at coming up with insightful turns of phrase but this one aimed for a bridge slightly too far.
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Even worse, I’m afraid, it’s a Lecter reference.
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There is A LOT of cool early man artifacts currently buried under the sea. Man lives by water, and when the ocean levels were much lower, we would have had a bunch of various villages near the shore and they are all under water right now. 
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“Anyway, here’s Blinkerwall…”
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“If you choose me, Ugg Mgogh, as leader of this tribe, I will build a wall, a big beautiful wall that will keep the reindeer where we want them. And the Ggorm Frm tribe will pay for it!”
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That this was a hunting aid seems eminently sensible; it still worked, against the Romans, around 8,000 years later in the Teutoburg Forest.
This discovery is freakin’ amazing.
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ChatGPT should really avoid getting philosophical.
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Maybe it was there to keep out those pesky Doggerlandians:
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The fishing forecast is a disguised pagan ritual to keep the Old Ones asleep in the depths.
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