Gobekli Tepe, a 11500-year-old temple in Upper Mesopotamia that predates the development of agriculture
by KV-2000
Gobekli Tepe, a 11500-year-old temple in Upper Mesopotamia that predates the development of agriculture
by KV-2000
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Saw this on expedition unknown. Pretty spectacular.
A link for the curious
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1572/
Fascinating. Would LOVE to see it live.
Any reason to exclude the mention of the country?
Amazing. I always want to see a reconstructions of what it would look like. So much amazing work in the past eroded through time and age.
Recently went there. It is truly interesting and also one of the best kept and funded sites in Turkey.
It’s located in an amazing region, extremely fertile and not mountainous at all.
It is one of few similar sites discovered in the region.
And the fact that these pillars were built and carved during pre pottery neolithic era really makes you think.
The site is built in layers and phases, which is speculated to be built over generations. Cereal processing tools, hunting tools and heavy duty tools were also found.
It was trippy to stand there and look at these pillars and try to imagine the life of our ancestors from many millenia ago, just as they started to settle. How did they communicate? Did they trade between tribes? Did they have gatherings and parties? What did those animals carved on the pillars mean to them?
The region is very suitible to start domesticating plants without too much effort – just gather seeds and plant them during the next season. Is this how we started farming?
There is no exact science that answers these questions with certainty. But it was an awesome experience to see them first hand and contemplate, then read various theories.
https://preview.redd.it/407w2e11lc3h1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=629599403f74a8ec3e9f4d1b39096add3cc1850f
Details are important.
One of the mysteries about it is the depiction of non indigenous creatures (sculptures had some worldly knowledge going on)
gunna call bull crap on this predating agriculture. the amount of people needed to construct that would far outpace the hunting and foraging resources of that area. especially since it most likely took over a generation. this is also not just “piled rocks on top of each other”, this shows knowledge of layout design and building techniques using carved tone pillars. all of that requires a more advanced civilization, not just technology wise, but in population and human organization.
That said, I’m not saying that this isn’t extremely old. I’m just saying our knowledge of when agriculture started may be off.
Turkey has the best stuff! Once I was driving through a town in the middle of the night, and my travelling buddy said “let’s see if this town is famous for anything” and discovered Santa Claus was from there. Aden I think.
Stupid question but why is stuff like this always found under dirt? Were things built into the ground or is it just overtime dirt covers it?
Though I’m familiar with Gobekli Tepe, I wasn’t aware that the ‘handbags’ present in so many later carvings across other cultures and continents were depicted here, too.
This is insane
Looks a little bit like Maltese site
That animal carving is very angular and simplistic but they still thought it needed to have a cock and balls…
“Predates agriculture” is wild, is that true?
Far out, this was about ten thousand years old in the early days of ancient Rome, far older than ancient Rome is today.
the carvings are mindblowing for such an ancient site, shows early human spirituality was way more advanced than we thought 😮
If you actually think they built this and it predates agriculture there’s a problem with the history they taught us.
Is the black and white measurement marker a 1 metre per square?
These walls have been standing for over 11,000 years. I just built a single stone step in my backyard that got washed away in a storm in less than 1 month. Hah
I’m in Gobekli Tepe shirtless in a loincloth blowing bareback asshole, out smokin aqueduct filtered sherm.
They had obviously developed agriculture earlier than we previously believed. I don’t know why they keep pushing this narrative.
Ridiculous dating method for a ridiculous date. Probably between 4-5 thousand years old.