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Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings.
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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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Excavations at Göbekli Tepe continue to yield findings.
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That is a most intriguing and wonderful place. We don’t know much about this world.
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Thanks for the links!
It’s interesting to contemplate the possible number of such sites yet to be discovered in that region.
I think it is the link to the pre-diluvian world. whether that flood that marked the end of the ice age was the Flood of the Bible is yet to be determined. But it is all truly in the mists of time.
““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.
it freaks me out when I think about this place too much. If the ruins are 15,000 years old, then when did they begin? What was their view of the world they lived in?
There’s zero evidence that the site was manually covered and uncovered on some migratory cycle, yet the claim has managed to persist.
These pillars were carved from flint at a time when metal tools were not yet used, demonstrating architectural skills.
More like dogged persistance...
Combine this site with "Out Of Place Artifacts", I can't help but think civilization has risen and fallen countless times in the past.
The Chinese have pottery in their museums that date back 12,000 years or so. They have no records of those times.
They are probably all over the world.
Those are similar to Kivas. Your links yield interesting stuff aplenty.
I thought the WEF got control of GT and planted trees over it to stop the excavations. They also poured concrete and drove pilings into it to put that stupid roof up.
Do you have a master list of links squirreled away somewhere?
I’ve never found any of the so-called “out of place artifacts” very convincing at all. None of them have held up to any scientific scrutiny. Having said that, the ancient world history is probably a bit different than popularly supposed. Some sort of cataclysmic catastrophe seems probable.
More people need to hear about the WEF being in control of this site. They’ve declared most of the site off-limits to archaeologists, they want it untouched for 150 years. Gobekli Tepe, and its story, belongs to the whole human race, not klaus schmidt.
Have you seen anyone respectable in the field suggest/insinuate that? Its just that I guess I never thought of it that way. I always though they meant that some undetermined number of tribes left their seers and shamans here at this main temple and the tribes went out and gathered what they could and came back.
Maybe once a month our tribes return on the new moon(?) to receive our prophecies and leave a deer and a basket of apples for Locnar the Eyebiter so that he can get back to work with the rest of the initiates on our behalf.
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…
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