Stone Age Rock Tombs Found Near Göbekli Tepe Provide More Ancient Clues

Ancient Origins ^ | 7 September, 2020 | Ed Whelan

[BenLurkin]

The excavation of the Stone Age rock tombs is near to the place where a Stone Age figure known as the Balıklıgöl statue or Urfa man, dating to 9000 BC, was also found.

Experts from the Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality were collaborating with personnel from the Culture and Tourism Ministry, who were investigating the Kizilkoyun Necropolis area, when they discovered the Stone Age rock tombs. They came across the burial site in the Old Town of Şanliurfa, not far from where some stunning mosaics of hunting Amazons were previously unearthed. The rock tombs are believed to have been part of the same cultural area as Göbekli Tepe.

The enigmatic Urfa man figure appears to be related to the distinctive T-shaped statues found at Göbekli Tepe , in particular in their ‘”double V-shape neck design”, according to Ancient Origins . The haunting empty staring eyes of the Urfa man have been likened to the so-called eye-idols found at Göbekli Tepe. The Urfa man figure is about 6 feet (1.80 meters) high and was most likely used for ceremonial or religious purposes and was possibly an idol. Hurriyet Daily News states that it has been called by experts the “oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human.”

According to Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül, the mayor of the Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality, “a total of 662 shanty houses were demolished in the area and 61 rock tombs unearthed.” The rock tombs come in a variety of sizes and they appear to have been built later than Göbekli Tepe. However, it is believed that these tombs will provide evidence on the prehistoric site and its builders.

[Red Badger]

Some of them are undoubtedly religious objects, as witnessed by the Bible’s reference to Rachel stealing her father’s, Laban, household idols, when Jacob and all his company left his household...................

[Red Badger]

https://tikvatisrael.org/why-did-rachel-steal-labans-household-idols/#.X1uyeYt7ncs

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Göbekli Tepe keyword, chrono, other than the topic about the Urfa man statue:

• Is this the world's oldest statue? [Anatolia, Gobekli Tepe] [2007]
• A temple that predates Stonehenge reveals architectural planning may be older than we think [2020]
• "Baghdad Battery" : Possible Beer Purification? [2019]
• Prehistory Decoded at Gobekli Tepe [2019]
• The Gobekli Tepe Ruins and the Origins of Neolithic Religion [2018]
• Looking beneath the surface: Geophysical surveys at Gobekli Tepe [2018]
• Concrete Poured on World's Oldest Temple Gobeklitepe [2018]
• Archaeologists uncover monumental prehistoric structure on island of Menorca [2016]
• Have the secrets of a lost civilisation finally been unearthed? [2015]
• Has Turkey found world's oldest temple? [2015]
• Signs of world's first pictograph found in Gobeklitepe [2015]
• Göbekli Tepe Excavator Klaus Schmidt Passes Away [2014]
• Gobekli Tepe Report [2014]
• World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star [2013]
• Gobekli Tepe Constellations [2013]
• Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: a new wonder of the ancient world (9,000 B.C. Neolithic site) [2013]
• Humans have been drinking beer for 11,500 years [2013]
• 'World's Oldest Temple' May Have Been Cosmopolitan Center [2012]
• Rewriting the dawn of civilization ( Was Göbekli Tepe the cradle of civilization? ) [2012]
• Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not temples at all [2011]
• Göbekli Tepe - The Birth of Religion [2011]
• 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure [Gobekli Tepe] [2011]
• History in the Remaking [2010]
• Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden? [2009]
• Stone Age Temple May Be Birthplace of Civilization [2008]
• Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? ( massive carved stones about 11,000 years old ) [2008]
• Mysterious Neolithic People Made Optical Art [2008]
• Turkish Site A Neolithic 'Supernova' [2008]
• A Journey To 9,000 Years Ago (Çatalhöyük) [2008]
• Did we plough up the Garden of Eden? [2006]
• fianl‡urfa To Shed More Light On History Of Civilization [2006]
• German Paper Reports World's Oldest Temple Is In Sanliurfa (Turkey- 10,000BC) [2006]
• Layers of clustered apartments hide artifacts of ancient urban life [2005]
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth [2003]

[SunkenCiv]

Bezos is behind the whole thing.

[fatez]

I am pretty sure that is from Tell Brak which is quite a bit younger that Tepe.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327377

[fatez]

That would mean it was mislabeled or I am wrong, but the Eye Temple is 5000 years later than the statue from Tepe...

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[Trillian]

A Pepe Tepe?

[ThanhPhero]

We will find out much more about truly ancient civilization when we can actually explore the continental shelf, especially in Southeast Asia. The final breakup of the North American glacier plates drowned the most favorable lands of then times for human habitation.

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[ThanhPhero]

Eden in the East

[SunkenCiv]

That’s one of Blam’s favorites.