I've never bought into the notion that this site was built, used for rituals, then systematically covered back up until the following year, as if it were a prehistoric Burning Man festival.
I just watched a show on it last night.
Would love to go there.
“...These include vessels large enough to make 43 gallons of beer or porridge...the absence of remains of domestic grain at Göbekli Tepe isn’t conclusive proof that people there weren’t planting crops.”
Was grain cultivated on-site even necessary for beer or for flour? Women might harvest wild and plentiful Einkorn, with a 30K year history, or Emmer, which required pounding with mortar and pestle to release the seeds. Water and a sugar source like honey and yeast off the surface of dates, and there’s your beer.
The best explanation I’ve heard was that it was memorial/warning of a cataclysm that wiped out a large portion of mankind. Graham Hancock has a pretty good explanation of i that it was likely warning people to watch out for comet/meteor strike during certain times of the year.