Inside The Mysteries Of Göbekli Tepe, The Oldest Temple In The World

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The Archaeologist’s Craft at the Edge of the Possible

Working at Göbekli Tepe requires navigating a specific tension that characterizes the best archaeological work more generally: the tension between what the evidence actually shows and what the mind wants to conclude from it.

The evidence from Göbekli Tepe is extraordinary in quantity and quality by the standards of prehistoric archaeology.

There are more large carved stone monuments, more elaborate animal imagery, more spatial complexity, and more evidence of sustained organized activity from this site than from almost any comparable early Holocene context anywhere in the world.