Ep 109: Göbekli Tepe Part 2
Photo credit: Liangtai Lin, used with permission CC BY 2.0. Taken on June 18, 2012
“We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.” – Journalist Charles C. Mann, National Geographic Magazine, June 2011
Location:
Göbekli Tepe, ancient archaeological dig site, dated more than 11,000 years ago to about 9600 B.C. in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, about 7 miles (12 km) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa.
Background:
What we've learned so far about Göbekli Tepe, is what it appears to be, which is that it is possibly the world's oldest sacred temple. We think we know who built it: a collective of hunter-gatherers, who had not yet learned the skills of farming. We also think we know approximately when. But the answers to the questions of how and why and what did it all mean to these Neolithic peoples may not be so easily obtained. In fact, since the 1960s at least in American archaeology, a debate still rages as to how far and by what methods archaeologists should proceed to interpret what they have dug up. How closely should archaeology be tied to anthropology, how much informed speculation about their beliefs should be allowed and by whom? Processual and Post-processual archaeology are two schools of thought within the field that currently define this debate. Tonight we take a closer look at the art, the architecture, and the symbolism from Göbelki Tepe, and what it's lead archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, thought about what it may have represented to our prehistoric ancestors. We also get closer to an even grander question, did these ancient peoples know of events in earth's past that would blow our modern minds?
Reference Links:
"GÖBEKLI TEPE RECEIVES UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE STATUS" on Daily Grail
Dr. Robert Schoch talks to Joe Rogan about redating the Sphinx, on Daily Grail
Another? Göbekli Tepe documentary from National Geographic on YouTube
Göbekli Tepe as Armenian "Portasar – The center of the earth and life"
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? by Andrew Curry for Smithsonian Magazine
World's Oldest Temple to Be Restored by Andrew Curry for National Geographic, Jan 2016
The Birth of Religion by Charles C. Mann for National Geographic Magazine
Skull Cult at Göbekli Tepe by Jason Urbanus for Archaeology magazine
Sun and Moon iconography and Göbekli Tepe in another National Geographic documentary
Poverty Point prehistoric earthworks in northeastern Louisiana
An Appreciation of James Mellaart by Trevor Watkins, feat. Dorak Treasure controversy
Could James Mellaart have faked some of his findings at Çatalhöyük and others?
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CREDITS:
Episode 109: Göbekli Tepe Part 2. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2018 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.