Inside The Mysteries Of Göbekli Tepe, The Oldest Temple In The World
Göbekli Tepe was not purely a place of the living, used only for feasting and monument building and then visited only by the healthy and vital.
It was a place where the boundary between the living and the dead was engaged, ritually and practically, in ways that we are still working to understand.
The Transition to Farming: What Göbekli Tepe Can and Cannot Tell Us
The relationship between Göbekli Tepe and the origins of agriculture is one of the most debated aspects of the site’s significance, and it is an area where popular accounts have sometimes significantly outrun the evidence.
The broad facts of the agricultural transition in the Fertile Crescent are well-established.