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Gobekli Tepe - The World’s First Temple - 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge

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Schmidt holds that such differences led to the loss of the idyllic hunting-and-gathering way of life around Göbekli Tepe and the laborious ritual burying of the site. Harvard’s Bar-Yosef disagrees, although he acknowledges the events may be related. Like Andrew Moore at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he believes that farming and hunting were carried out simultaneously at Göbekli Tepe. “They were already farmers, and farmers go hunting,” he says. “It’s something so natural to humans, so they were not terminating this [when they buried Göbekli Tepe]. They were terminating different things, related … to their own society in the social structure and in the belief system.” With the onset of domesticated crops, the real gods may have changed—perhaps to those of the rain or of the land. “So they got rid of all the old ones,” he says.

Hodder says that fits in very well with what his team has found at Çatal Höyük and what has been observed at Çayönü and a number of other sites: “It’s a very careful ending and filling in and rebuilding, either on top or somewhere else. It’s all about creating continuity and building histories through time. They were obviously very fascinated with creating continuities through time so the ending and beginning of something is very important—they have very elaborate processes of filling in and starting again.”

At Çatal Höyük, houses were buried at the end of their life-span when they were no longer useable. “I don’t know whether [the pillars at Göbekli Tepe] would have had lifespans or not, whether the roof would fall off, or they would become too small for their purpose or what it might be,” Hodder says.

Whatever spelled the beginning—and the end—of Göbekli Tepe’s temple, it was epic. “This is a very spectacular discovery,” says Moore. “One day, once we better understand what’s going on here, we’re going to look back and say this extraordinary find really did transform our ideas about the early stages of the Neolithic Near East.”
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