11,500 year-old temple is rewriting history

Wow, that's really interesting. With this excavation allowed, are there chances of getting a team up onto Mount Arrarat then?

According to history books, men were at the early agricultural stages from being hunter gatherer. This discovery pushes back the time line.

This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate. This TEMPLE city in Bolivia is thought to be 17,500 years, others think 12,500 minimum. Its on the other side of the world. It sure is interesting that man is thought to be from Africa, but the oldest city is on the other side of the world. Here is the link to a youtube vid with none other than the guy who fought the apes, Charlie Heston.

This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate. This TEMPLE city in Bolivia is thought to be 17,500 years, others think 12,500 minimum. Its on the other side of the world. It sure is interesting that man is thought to be from Africa, but the oldest city is on the other side of the world. Here is the link to a youtube vid with none other than the guy who fought the apes, Charlie Heston. Posnansky's dating of Tiwanaku was wrong. He based his date on archeo-astronomy, but he left out the fact that he did most of the reconstructing himself, based on his ideas of how it should have looked originally. ... [More]

The more we look, the more we find complex structures dating from long before what was accepted as the beginning of human civilization. I don't think we'll ever know when it truly began.

I'd love to know why the archaeologist believes the site was deliberately buried before 8000BC ....

I'd love to know why the archaeologist believes the site was deliberately buried before 8000BC ....

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/images/newsitems/gobekli.jpg The Gobekli Tepe temple, the oldest known temple in the world, is uncovering new secrets about our ancient past. Built after the end of the last ice age Gobekli Tepe temple is 11,500 years old, predating Stonehenge, the great pyramids and even pottery, agriculture and animal domestication. "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... [More]

I think I know where these Gobekli Tepers went to: the went on a looooong holiday in the western Mediterranean (Menorca):

if this thing redates agreculture and animal domestication. that means the people who supposedly built it were hunter gathers meaning they wouldnt have had time to build it. to busy trying to get food to survive. Depends on how rich the land is.