Practice question · Estimate
Roughly how many years separate Göbekli Tepe from the first stage of Stonehenge? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 12,000 (12000).
Hints
- 9600 BCE versus about 3000 BCE.
- More than six thousand years.
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6600 (answers within ±1200 count)
Why
About 6,600 years, a gap longer than the entire span from Stonehenge to now. Prehistory is not a short prologue; it is almost all of the story.
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