Posted on 02/27/2025 6:04:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings. Researchers found living quarters of an ancient civilization, which disproved earlier theories that the site served solely as a ceremonial pilgrimage destination.
Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic archaeological site situated in the Germuş mountains of southeastern Anatolia, close to the border of Syria... its construction occurring up to 15,000 years ago.
The enormous T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe, some reaching heights of up to 5.5 meters, are the oldest examples of monumental architecture discovered to date. These pillars were carved from flint at a time when metal tools were not yet used, demonstrating architectural skills.
So far, only about 10% of the Göbekli Tepe site was excavated, and it is likely to take around 150 years to excavate the full site. Archaeologists estimate that there are still 15 more enclosures buried underground, one of which could be up to 15,000 years old...
Excavations also uncovered small grinding mills and flint sickles, indicating that its builders may have practiced agriculture. Remains of plants and animals reflecting the diet of the time were found, suggesting a continued tradition over several millennia. This could mean that humans began settling into permanent locations and building cities 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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That is indeed the claim (deliberately buried). I’ve heard it many times. There must be a reason for the claim. Maybe just propaganda to stir intrigue?
That was the last I’d heard as well, so I went and looked for something recent.
This is very, very interesting
““The complex would have been constructed by groups of hunter-gatherers who periodically gathered to celebrate rituals related to the animals represented on the pillars of the site,” stated Klaus Schmidt, the late archaeologist who led excavations until his death in 2014.” Really? Hunter-gatherers built this place? Ridiculous. People with very specialized skills built this place, not some nomadic savage.
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Makes as much sense as saying that hunter gathers killed off all the megafauna in North America 12,000.
Would you want to try and kill a sabre tooth tiger with a spear? Not me.
Animal iconography and pottery shards suggest a north African origin for the original inhabitants.
The upright stones could be easily tipped over, which suggests that they were carefully buried after each period of use. That wouldn’t explain how, when a large crowd was around doing their thing, no one bumped the over and the whole bunch went down like dominoes, killing everyone in their path. Seems more likely that they were held in place by something no longer extant, such as a wood roof or just some organic glue or mortar that hasn’t survived.
I believe it originated with Klaus Schmidt, the original excavator and one may as well say, the discoverer of the site.
Other sites with remarkable construction tend to show a relatively short burst of creativity, followed by somewhat rapid collapse, as happened on Easter Island. The EI statues date from about 1250 AD to about 1500 AD, and it sez here that nearly half of them were never moved out of the quarry, which implies that the precipitous end to the statue-building phase — as recorded in their folklore — came about in a pretty short time frame near the end of that period.
I’ve got some quick-and-dirty doodads that process them out of the FR keywords.
To put it into perspective, by the time the site was built, humans and/or (for sticklers) human ancestors had been using stone tools for more that two and a half million years.
“ Göbekli”
Pet peeve…” ö “ is not a letter in our alphabet. We don’t print Chinese characters and expect readers to pronounce them. Just because it looks like English doesn’t make it so. Göbekli should be spelled phonetically just like we do for Moscow.
I’m loving it, however at my age, I don’t think I’ll get to see the full and final excavations
True but they weren’t carving stone with them.
I think we can spell it any way we please. Same with pronunciation.
Looking carefully at the construction of the site, it seems obvious that whoever made the pillars and whoever made the surrounding walls are 2 different groups with the wall builders coming later.
The pillars are massive stones while the walls are mostly crudely cut small stones, stones from which the archeologists took material to date the site.
Its entirely possible that the wall builders came along later and erected walls around the already-existing stone pillars.
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The EI statues date from about 1250 AD to about 1500 AD
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The flaw in that theory is that many of the statues are buried 20 feet from the bottom to the surface. It takes more that a few centuries to have soil accumulate to that depth - more like thousands of years.
That’s a good link, thanks. They planted olive trees on purpose because they are a “protected species” in Turkey and against the law to remove them.
You can find more info on what they’ve done there and other sites on you tube, a fellow under the name Bright Insight.
The article is chock full of info, including denial of WEF involvement and progress on accelerating excavations which I read were previously barred.
I doubt that I will know the full breadth of the site during my lifetime unless they multiply their efforts x10, but I do firmly believe that a lost civilization travelled the world and shared aspects of their culture & technology, regrettably lost to time and, most pertinently, denied by orthodox archaeologists/historians.
Erosion — with volcanic soil, rainy seasons twice a year, after all the trees were cut down. Most statues were not buried much if at all, and the earlier style statues are few.
No, we shouldn’t.
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