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That 8,000 year old temple in Turkey changed my view on how we lived
I used to think civilization started in Mesopotamia with farming villages, then I read about Gobekli Tepe in southeast Turkey. It's a massive stone temple complex built by hunter-gatherers around 9600 BCE, way before agriculture took hold. That one detail from an article in Archaeology Magazine last month made me rethink everything about early human organization. Has anyone else had a site completely flip their assumptions about ancient people?
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