Of all the images I've seen from the site, it's still the one of this reptile that amazes me most. It's so incredible in its detail.
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Very interesting. Never heard of this before. Thanks for posting.
Which came first? The chicken or the Meg - alith.
Implying they went from “hut” to “monumental architecture” with no intermediate steps.
“For that matter, Schmidt has found no mess kitchens or cooking fires. It was purely a ceremonial center.”
Yet: “To judge by the thousands of gazelle and aurochs bones found at the site, the workers seem to have been fed by constant shipments of game, brought from faraway hunts” and “Surely there were feasts”.
Implying they ate their meat raw or cooked it elsewhere and brought it in.
“Today less than a tenth of the 22-acre site is open to the sky.”
Maybe they have not reached the point where implications and conclusions should be given a lot of weight. It is interesting though.
The improved dating numbers on the site, and the new evidence of deteriorating quality of workmanship and craft over time indicate that something bad was going on. The possibility of the North American Impact playing a large part in weather changes and population declines would be borne out by these findings.
Makes me wonder if they looked for nanodiamonds in the strata of the oldest megaliths...
Fascinating! Now that people are asking which came first, I want to know who was the first man, or woman, who started to sing? How did they know they could sing? What gave them the first idea to sing, rather than to shout, or to talk?
The Bible tells us that Abraham came from the city of UR of the Chaldeans. Does not specify that he was born there, from what I remember. So is this village that claims to be the birth place of Abraham moslem?
And if this hill top is in Southern Turkey, wouldn’t that be near to where the Mountains of Ararat, and therefore near where Noah landed?
I know it is not acceptable to link current digs to the bible, but it is curious that the villages claim and being in the area where Noah may have landed is interesting.
Of all the images I've seen from the site, it's still the one of this reptile that amazes me most. It's so incredible in its detail.
This site is one featured on a recent series on the History Channel on Ancient Aliens. They note the precise cutting of the original ring stones and the location being difficult to maintain a large population necessary to manually raise and carve the stone.
But as this article states: “Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building. The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.”
Lets make an analogy to the ‘cargo cults’ of the Paicific islands where primitive societies were exposed to artifacts (planes & goods) from a more advanced society that dropped in, made some friends, and then took off. The islanders tried to lure them back with crude copies of the planes.
Now stay with my analogy for a minute: In Gobekli Tepe you have a second ring, less sophisticated than the first as skills are lost and then a third ring even more crudely done and finally when the ‘Gods” don’t come back, the religious loss of faith occurs and the effort is abandoned.
I love this stuff!
When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.
Who knew you could go to this windswept Turkish hill to find the Big O???
Thank you for posting. Incredible.
The more we learn, the more we realize just how much more there is we don’t know.
Thanks for posting! Great read.
How wre they able to determine the age of this?
Pictures?