Murderous Tribesmen, from Arabia to Japan

A History of Mankind (6)

Around 5000 BC, tribesmen living in the then-dry steppe of central Arabia built massive mounds of rocks with likely religious functions, called “mustatil.”[1] But, generally speaking, for millennia there was nothing even remotely comparable to the grandeur of places like Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhoyuk and Jericho, anywhere else in the world outside of the Fer…