# People built an earlier structure on the hill around 6000 BC, below the visible terraces, but nothing from…

> Still possible: People built an earlier structure on the hill around 6000 BC, below the visible terraces, but nothing from the Ice Age.

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# People built an earlier structure on the hill around 6000 BC, below the visible terraces, but nothing from…

People built an earlier structure on the hill around 6000 BC, below the visible terraces, but nothing from the Ice Age.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Charcoal or other human-made material in sealed contexts at about 4 m depth under terrace 5, dated to the 7th millennium BC.
- Built features at that depth distinct from natural jointing.

## What would rule it out

- Publication of the 2025 samples showing they are soil organics or come from slumped or disturbed contexts.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The team announced in December 2025 that laboratory tests on carbon from about 4 m under terrace 5 give about…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/evidence/EVD0D32CKMW7EWG/the-team-announced-in-december-2025-that-laboratory-tests-on)

Speculative

FOR

[The 2023 paper's own 6000 to 5500 BC phase rested on soil dates of the kind the journal found unsound.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/evidence/EVD0D32CKWP3R5C/the-2023-papers-own-6000-to-5500-bc-phase-rested-on-soil)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Is there a human-built structure inside the hill older than the visible terraces?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/questions/QST0D32CFQW3F1A/is-there-a-human-built-structure-inside-the-hill-older-than)

Most likelyThe core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). People built an earlier structure on the hill around 6000 BC, below the visible terraces, but nothing from… [Answer ANS0D32CKD24KJ2]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D32CKD24KJ2
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