Inside The Mysteries Of Göbekli Tepe, The Oldest Temple In The World
It could be quarried with stone tools.
It was everywhere underfoot.
The choice of this hilltop for repeated monumental construction was not accidental.
A position at the highest point of the local landscape offers visibility, orientation, and a certain quality of separation from the surrounding lowland world.
Whether the people of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic thought of it in those terms, we cannot know.
But we can observe that the site commands views in multiple directions and that its prominence in the landscape would have made it a natural reference point for communities moving through the region.
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