Inside The Mysteries Of Göbekli Tepe, The Oldest Temple In The World
They were permanently occupied, sometimes for centuries in the same location.
Their populations were dependent primarily on cultivated crops and domestic animals.
They show evidence of social differentiation in their house sizes and the quality of fittings.
They produced pottery.
Their relationship to the monumental communal building tradition of the PPN is complex: some PPN-period sites show traces of communal buildings, but the extraordinary scale of the Göbekli Tepe monuments is not replicated in the later agricultural village tradition in the same region.
This absence is itself informative.