Nice try, no cigar. Gobekli Tepe goes back 10,000 years. Animals can't carve sculptures and engineer megalithic structures. Only humans can.
Nice try, no cigar. Gobekli Tepe goes back 10,000 years. Animals can't carve sculptures and engineer megalithic structures. Only humans can.
Nice assertion, questionable proof. For instance...
"questionable radiocarbon dating."
As correctly written online by Omar W. Rosales in a comment at the Smithsonian Magazine online:
"... you still need independent verification of the age of the burial site. It mentions that stone implements (whether they are flint, or knives, or whatever) resemble those found in another site, where the artifacts in the other site radiocarbon date to 11000 B.C. Okay, so how does prove that Gobekli Tepe dates around 11000 B.C.? If there are wood fragments, pottery shards, or some other type of carbon-based item at Gobekli, then test these to establish the date. Although undiscovered sites with monumental architecture probably pre-date our discovered (and well-known) archaeological sites, you still need to independently verify the dates. - Omar W. Rosales J.D. http://www.elementalshaman.com
Posted by Omar W. Rosales on October 24,2008 | 03:15PM"
http://lexiline.blogspot.com/2009/08/gobekli-tepe-decipherment-dating.html