via Greek Reporter, 01 March 2024: When this story came out, many media outlets took the claim of the Gunung Padang pyramid without question and published it with much fanfare. I am glad to see that there are more media outlets highlighting the skepticism and uproar from the academic community.
The claim caught the attention of news outlets all around the world, but it has since led to ferocious backlash from many experts, who argue that none of the evidence presented by the research team justifies their conclusions about the unprecedented age of Gunung Padang. They say the settlement at the site was likely built around 6,000 to 7,000 years ago.
“The data that is presented in this paper provides no support for its final conclusion—that the settlement is extraordinarily old,” Flint Dibble, an archaeologist at Cardiff University told The Guardian. “Yet that is what has driven the headline. I am very surprised this paper was published as it is.”
Source: Is Indonesia’s Gunung Padang Pyramid the Oldest in the World? – GreekReporter.com
