“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.”
I agree with you. That statement is pure conjecture with nothing to back it up.
A truly good archeologist would admit more often that “we do not have answers to many things, as often what we do find is not enough to fully understand what we found”.
So much of it is purely conjecture. What I was taught in school, way back in the 60’s was mostly wrong.
When new discoveries are made of ancient structures it just opens the door for new questions. We know so little about our ancient ancestors. It would be difficult for us today to build the same structures even with modern equipment.