The Case for Hobbits

[LSWONE]

Just a thought. Maybe pet houses like a dog house? What if they saw the wild dog as sacred and made little shelters for them?

LSWONE.

[Sinny]

Can't see why anyone would go to the trouble of huge rocks for some dogs sake, nor would they have the door raised from the ground..

First thoughts would be small people lol.

[ArMaP]

If those were houses then they must have found signs of their use, like the place where they made their fire and where they disposed of their garbage. Living in some place is an active thing that changes the surrounding area.

[WarToad]

I'm thinking they're more like a shrine for some forest spirit.  When I lived in Japan I'd go hiking up in the mountains and in the middle of absolutely nowhere you'll come across some moss encrusted ancient Shinto shrine.

[zorgon]

Just a thought. Maybe pet houses like a dog house? What if they saw the wild dog as sacred and made little shelters for them?

Where did the owners of those dogs live? Did they sleep under the stars while the dogs had the stone houses?

[zorgon]

If those were houses then they must have found signs of their use, like the place where they made their fire and where they disposed of their garbage. Living in some place is an active thing that changes the surrounding area.

There has been little research done on them... well as far as I have found so far.  A few of them have markings and they show one with some interior markings but I have not yet found any study results

Granted I have not gone back to this topic since I posted it. That is why I picked this one to start the new year.

There are a lot of topics on the website that had been put on hold never got back to

[LSWONE]

Where did the owners of those dogs live? Did they sleep under the stars while the dogs had the stone houses?

Wish we knew. Maybe the locs lived in wooden shelters and built the homes of the worshipped ones out of stone. Strange that there are no plates, tools, or pottery littering the surroundings. That is why I was suggesting altar type structures.

LSWONE.

[Ellirium113]

Be interesting to see if there is any soot marks on the bottom side of the roof. Wondering if these were houses... did they build fires inside? Could these have been for food storage or something vs. a dwelling?

[zorgon]

Wish we knew. Maybe the locs lived in wooden shelters and built the homes of the worshipped ones out of stone. Strange that there are no plates, tools, or pottery littering the surroundings. That is why I was suggesting altar type structures.

Yeah so far no signes of tools etc  It could be that they used wood for houses and being a damp forest it is possible 3000 years of rot could erase those buildings  but so far nothing I have seen on any tools artifacts etc  It may simply be because no one has studied them or that we are not getting the info out of Russia

But Goebeki Tepi was similar  No tools no sign of workers housing no sign of who lived there except for one lone fire pit from which they assumed it was built by hunter gatherers

LOL Those guys were supposed to be in an age where pottery wasn't even invented yet they carved intricate animals several species not native to that region?

I think I will creat a list 1001 reasons why Zorgon hates Archaeologists I already have about 24

[Norval]

, , , just some thoughts, , ,


Rock plugs that are outside of the structures, to fit into the openings, , ,

Might they have been traps of some kind?

[space otter]

you guys ever hear of    spirit houses..?  ?  ?


humans have given up their power to  outside entities  in our long history here and they also
gave more power to the plants and trees as entities and made offerings to them as well as what they considered 'great spirits'



I had a bunch of links for the stuff in new England but no one will go read it so ..whatever
look up new England dolmans if you are interested

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