This Was a Gathering Place. A Festival Site. People Traveled Here Not to Live But to Feast.

[00:00:00]It seems from the papers that the archaeologists looking at the tools and the things that were left behind were astonished at how much production was being done there. The >> [music] >> number of grinding stones, for example, 7,000 grinding stones in this one little spot. They're like, [music] they must have been manufacturing tons of materials, foods, or ochre, or whatever it was that they were grinding, [music] cereals, and wild grasses, and things like that. In the papers, they say, "This is far more than is normal for a settlement [music] of this size." So, this is where they sort of come to the conclusion that they were having these massive feasts. These people were coming there, not necessarily to live, but to just have huge parties.