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Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings.
photo credit: Mitzo. Via Shutterstock
The article was written with the assistance of a news analysis system
Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings.
photo credit: Mitzo. Via Shutterstock
That is a most intriguing and wonderful place. We don’t know much about this world.
““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.
These pillars were carved from flint at a time when metal tools were not yet used, demonstrating architectural skills.
More like dogged persistance...
Those are similar to Kivas. Your links yield interesting stuff aplenty.
Sure is a marvel, and dispels some myths of ancient men being overly primitive. 15 foot walls and pillars with inscriptions from the days before the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. There are a lot of other sites on the same hills which haven’t even been opened yet. We know they are there from ground radar type scans. So one can venture a guess that this site was part of a larger civilization. Maybe ceremonial or maybe multi purpose. Though it does appear it was deliberately buried, too, which makes the mystery all the greater. Maybe they wanted to protect it from marauders or something…
Animal iconography and pottery shards suggest a north African origin for the original inhabitants.
“ 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.
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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Paging Graham Handcock...
This is an amazing site and....apparently, similar sites in the whole region.
It’s the first Motel 6. People need a place to stay while there.
