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11,500 Year Old Stone Monument s in Turkey

This is the earliest known example of stone based monumentalism

and appears to predate formal settlement and the related agriculture.

Our own example of Pacific Northwest wood based monumentalism

informs us that any economy that encouraged assembly also

encouraged this form of building.

This looks rather like a series of clan temples to clan gods or

ancestral spirits at a favored gathering locale used to mine flint.

One imagines hunting groups coming here to restock flint and trade

with other clans. It fits nicely into the expected life way that had itsorigins in the Pleistocene. I think the clan god idea is a bit

ambitious when ancestor worship was common among nomads

It surely was a focus for clans a couple hundred miles in all

directions. The stone structures were likely preceded by cairns and

even wood. The presence of flint suggests that this locale had been

in use for thousands of years during the heyday of big game

hunting.

I am pleased to see such stone work is readily present this early.

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Remember my comment about lack of evidence is not evidence of

lack. We now know it was possible to build stone monuments for all

of twelve millennia. Their lack is only a measure of desire.

A lot is made of new gods. I suspect that technology made

settlement possible largely ending nomadic existence. The clan

gods simply moved to their new villages and took up residence

there. The hill top slowly lost importance.

History in the Remaking

A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is

rewriting the story of human .

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844/page/3

A pillar at the Gobekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey, the

oldest known temple in the world

ByPatrick Symmes

Published Feb 19, 2010

From the magazine issue dated Mar 1, 2010

They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final

lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains.

East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is

the Syrian border, visible 20 miles away, pointing toward the ancient

lands of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, the region that gave

rise to human civilization. And under our feet, according to

archeologist Klaus Schmidt, are the stones that mark the spotthe

exact spotwhere humans began that ascent.

Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish

diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his

discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidthas uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so

ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built.

The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500

years agoa staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and

more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The

ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated

animals, and even agriculturethe first embers of civilization. In fact,

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Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice

Age by hunter-gatherers, became that emberthe spark that

launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed.

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Gbekli Tepethe name in Turkish for "potbelly hill"lays art and

religion squarely at the start of that journey. After a dozen years of

patient work, Schmidt has uncovered what he thinks is definitive

proof that a huge ceremonial site flourished here, a "Rome of the

Ice Age," as he puts it, where hunter-gatherers met to build a

complex religious community. Across the hill, he has found carved

and polished circles of stone, with terrazzo flooring and double

benches. All the circles feature massive T-shaped pillars that evoke

the monoliths of Easter Island.

Though not as large as Stonehengethe biggest circle is 30 yards

across, the tallest pillars 17 feet highthe ruins are astonishing in

number. Last year Schmidt found his third and fourth examples of

the temples. Ground-penetrating radar indicates that another 15 to

20 such monumental ruins lie under the surface. Schmidt's German-

Turkish team has also uncovered some 50 of the huge pillars,

including two found in his most recent dig season that are not just

the biggest yet, but, according to , are the oldest

monumental artworks in the world.

The new discoveries are finally beginning to reshape the slow-

moving consensus of archeology. Gbekli Tepe is "unbelievably big

and amazing, at a ridiculously early date," according to Ian Hodder,

director of Stanford's archeology program. Enthusing over the "huge

great stones and fantastic, highly refined art" at Gbekli, Hodder

who has spent decades on rival Neolithic sitessays: "Many people

think that it changes everythingIt overturns the whole apple cart.

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Schmidt's thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that

brought mankind together in the very first urban conglomerations.

The need to build and maintain this temple, he says, drove the

builders to seek stable food sources, like grains and animals that

could be domesticated, and then to settle down to guard their new

way of life. The temple begat the city.

This theory reverses a standard chronology of human origins, in

which primitive man went through a "Neolithic revolution" 10,000 to

12,000 years ago. In the old model, shepherds and farmers

appeared first, and then created pottery, villages, cities, specialized

labor, kings, writing, art, andsomewhere on the way to the

airplaneorganized religion. As far back as Jean-Jacques

Rousseau, thinkers have argued that the social compact of cities

came first, and only then the "high" religions with their greattemples, a paradigm still taught in American high schools.

Religion now appears so early in civilized lifeearlier than civilized

life, if Schmidt is correctthat some think it may be less a product

of culture than a cause of it, less a revelation than a genetic

inheritance. The archeologist Jacques Cauvin once posited that "the

beginning of the gods was the beginning of agriculture," and Gbekli

may prove his case.

The builders of Gbekli Tepe could not write or leave other

explanations of their work. Schmidt speculates that nomadic bands

from hundreds of miles in every direction were already gathering

here for rituals, feasting, and initiation rites before the first stones

were cut. The religious purpose of the site is implicit in its size and

location. "You don't move 10-ton stones for no reason," Schmidt

observes. "Temples like to be on high sites," he adds, waving an

arm over the stony, round hilltop. "Sanctuaries like to be away from

the mundane world."

Unlike most discoveries from the ancient world, Gbekli Tepe was

found intact, the stones upright, the order and artistry of the work

plain even to the un-trained eye. Most startling is the elaborate

carving found on about half of the 50 pillars Schmidt has unearthed.

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graceful, naturalistic sculptures and bas-reliefs of the animals that

were central to the imagination of hunter-gatherers. Wild boar and

cattle are depicted, along with totems of power and intelligence, like

lions, foxes, and leopards. Many of the biggest pillars are carved

with arms, including shoulders, elbows, and jointed fingers. The T

shapes appear to be towering humanoids but have no faces, hinting

at the worship of ancestors or humanlike deities. "In the Bible it talks

about how God created man in his image," says Johns Hopkins

archeologist Glenn Schwartz. Gbekli Tepe "is the first time you can

see humans with that idea, that they resemble gods."

The temples thus offer unexpected proof that mankind emerged

from the 140,000-year reign of hunter-gatherers with a ready

vocabulary of spiritual imagery, and capable of huge logistical,

economic, and political efforts. A Catholic born in Franconia,

Germany, Schmidt wanders the site in a white turban, pointing out

the evidence of that transition. "The people here invented

agriculture. They were the inventors of cultivated plants, of domestic

architecture," he says.

Gbekli sits at the Fertile Crescent's northernmost tip, a productive

borderland on the shoulder of forests and within sight of plains. The

hill was ideally situated for ancient hunters. Wild gazelles still

migrate past twice a year as they did 11 millennia ago, and birds fly

overhead in long skeins. Genetic mapping shows that the first

domestication of wheat was in this immediate areaperhaps at a

mountain visible in the distancea few centuries after Gbekli's

founding. Animal husbandry also began near herethe first

domesticated pigs came from the surrounding area in about 8000

B.C., and cattle were domesticated in Turkey before 6500 B.C.

Pottery followed. Those discoveries then flowed out to places like

atalhyk, the oldest-known Neolithic village, which is 300 miles to

the west.

The artists of Gbekli Tepe depicted swarms of what Schmidt calls

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"scary, nasty" creatures: spiders, scorpions, snakes, triple- fanged

monsters, and, most common of all, carrion birds. The single largest

carving shows a vulture poised over a headless human. Schmidt

theorizes that human corpses were ex-posed here on the hilltop for

consumption by birdswhat a Tibetan would call a sky burial.

Sifting the tons of dirt removed from the site has produced very few

human bones, however, perhaps because they were removed to

distant homes for ancestor worship. Absence is the source of

Schmidt's great theoretical claim. "There are no traces of daily life,"

he explains. "No fire pits. No trash heaps. There is no water here."

Everything from food to flint had to be imported, so the site "was not

a village," Schmidt says. Since the temples predate any known

settlement anywhere, Schmidt concludes that man's first house was

a house of worship: "First the temple, then the city," he insists.

Some archeologists, like Hodder, the Neolithic specialist, wonder if

Schmidt has simply missed evidence of a village or if his dating of

the site is too precise. But the real reason the ruins at Gbekli

remain almost unknown, not yet incorporated in textbooks, is that

the evidence is too strong, not too weak. "The problem with this

discovery," as Schwartz of Johns Hopkins puts it, "is that it is

unique." No other monumental sites from the era have been found.

Before Gbekli, humans drew stick figures on cave walls, shaped

clay into tiny dolls, and perhaps piled up small stones for shelter or

worship. Even after Gbekli, there is little evidence of sophisticated

building. Dating of ancient sites is highly contested, but atalhyk

is probably about 1,500 years younger than Gbekli, and features no

carvings or grand constructions. The walls of Jericho, thought until

now to be the oldest monumental construction by man, were

probably started more than a thousand years after Gbekli. Huge

temples did emerge againbut the next unambiguous example

dates from 5,000 years later, in southern Iraq.

The site is such an outlier that an American archeologist who

stumbled on it in the 1960s simply walked away, unable to interpret

what he saw. On a hunch, Schmidt followed the American's notes to

the hilltop 15 years ago, a day he still recalls with a huge grin. He

saw carved flint everywhere, and recognized a Neolithic quarry on

an adjacent hill, with unfinished slabs of limestone hinting at some

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monument buried nearby. "In one minutein one secondit was

clear," the bearded, sun-browned archeologist recalls. He too

considered walking away, he says, knowing that if he stayed, he

would have to spend the rest of his life digging on the hill.

Now 55 and a staff member at the German Archaeological Institute,

Schmidt has joined a long line of his countrymen here, reaching

back to Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy. He has settled

in, marrying a Turkish woman and making a home in a modest "dig

house" in the narrow streets of old Urfa. Decades of work lie ahead.

Disputes are normal at the sitethe workers, Schmidt laments, are

divided into three separate clans who feud constantly. ("Three

groups," the archeologist says, exasperated. "Not two. Three!") So

far Schmidt has uncovered less than 5 percent of the site, and he

plans to leave some temples untouched so that future researchers

can examine them with more sophisticated tools.

Whatever mysterious rituals were conducted in the temples, they

ended abruptly before 8000 B.C., when the entire site was buried,

deliberately and all at once, Schmidt believes. The temples had

been in decline for a thousand yearslater circles are less than half

the size of the early ones, indicating a lack of resources or

motivation among the worshipers. This "clear digression" followed by

a sudden burial marks "the end of a very strange culture," Schmidt

says. But it was also the birth of a new, settled civilization, humanity

having now exchanged the hilltops of hunters for the valleys of

farmers and shepherds. New ways of life demand new religious

practices, Schmidt suggests, and "when you have new gods, you

have to get rid of the old ones."

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