> One stick was 11,000 years old and the other 12,000 years old, radiocarbon dating found.

so there were two sticks, at the same site/ritual, but one stick was a 1000 years older than the other?

does that mean the ancestors of the present day people were coming to this ___location for the ritual for a 1000 years? but then for some reason stopped?

This is so fascinating!