Did Civilisation Begin At Karahan Tepe? - Humanity before Göbekli Tepe // Prehistory Documentary

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Chapters-
11:30 - I - In The Beginning
28:36 - II - Dancing At The Dawn
59:23 - III - The Older Brothers of Adam
1:28:15 - IV - Of Sorcerers & Stone Circles

Research -
- Books -
René Girard, Violence & The Sacred (1972)
Klaus Schmidt, Gobekli Tepe (2012)
Steven Mithen , After The Ice (2003)
V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself (1939)
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution (2014)
Robin Dunbar, How Religion Evolved (2022)
David Wengrow & David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything (2021)
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas (1988)
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism (1951)
Jaques Cauvin, The Birth Of The Gods & The Dawn of Agriculture (1994)
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)
Claude Levi Strauss, The Savage Mind (1966)
Dancing at the Dawn, Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
Brian Hayden, The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory To The Present (2014)
Dacher Keltner, Awe - The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder (2023)

- Academic Journals -
The Archaeology of Ritual, Edward Swenson (2015)
Becoming Farmers: The Inside Story, Anna Belfer-Cohen (2011)
The Earliest Dancing Scenes In The Near East - Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
On Scorpions, Birds & Snakes - Benz & Bauer (2015)
Farewell to the ‘Childhood of Man’ - Wengrow & Graeber (2015)
So Fair A House, Göbekli Tepe - E. B. Banning (2011)
Göbekli Tepe Preliminary Report, Klaus Schmidt (2000)
Gods & Monsters - David Wengrow (2011)
Jaques Cauvin: The right man for the reason - Anna Belfer Cohen (2011)
The Legacy of Jaques Cauvin, Melinda Zeder (2011)
Klaus Schmidt, Hans Georg K Gebel (2014)
The Natufians In The Levant, Anna Belfer-Cohen (1991)
To be not to be, Olivier Aurenche (2013)
The Neolithic Transformation, Willie Thompson
The Origins of Agriculture, Price & Bar-Yousef (2011)
Rational Choice In The Neolithic?, Kim Sterelny (2015)
The Origins of Agriculture In The Near East, Melinda Zeder (2011)
On The Nature of Transitions and Revolutions in Prehistory, Ofer Bar-Yosef (2005)
The World’s First Temple, Sandra Scham (2008)

Thanks to @dakotawint for the drone footage

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[sobieski]

Beer in the fridge. A Karahan tepe special at 18.30. Perfect Friday night.

Yes, I am old.

[AllenProxmire]

it's safe to say a culture began way before any of it's construction projects. there was a sophistication already present.

[qui-gonjay]

The Gobekli and Karahan stuff makes me feel confident that we will keep finding older sites like this. Maybe just off the coasts or just deeply buried like these were.

[ChefClary]

For a long time we were told that Gobekli was an anomaly. Now it’s obvious this was a HUGE civilization/culture.

[jaymehatfield]

Yours is the only channel that films professionally to give us TIME TO SEE each item or landscape. Thankyou for your literate narration and excellent film-making

[beepboop]

parents or teachers seeing the drawing of phalluses: GROW UP

archeologists seeing the drawing of phalluses: MUST BE RELATED TO RITUAL

[emperfh]

When I see something like Karahan and Gobekli Tepe it occurs to me that these were not their 1st attempts so to speak. It looks to me that whoever built them already had the design and methods needed perfected... which would mean that there are even older sites yet to be found.

[SocialForeman]

This is as incredible as the Gobekle Tepe doc! Every time I learn something new about the history of our civilization, I feel closer to humanity. Your narration gives life to a long lifeless people in our ancient past. It’s like meeting the ancestors of our ancestors. If only we all as the flame bearers of the past could put our differences aside for but a moment, we might hear what our history is trying to tell us. We wouldn’t keep each other from learning the truth of our beginnings. It is adventurers and investigators such as yourself that will keep our link to the past strong and available to all mankind. Your efforts and your incredibly hard work do not go unappreciated or unnoticed!

[js]

You and Fall of Civilizations are my two favorite history podcasts. Cannot pay you high enough compliments for the work you do. Bravo. 🙏

[twodogstudio]

What you have created here, this video, is the greatest thing to come out of the internet and you tube era. If I were 10 years old today and had access to works of creative brilliance like this... I was 15 minutes into this video when I realized it was going to go on for almost two HOURS!!! just incredible. I feel like if this were a high budget BBC or PBS production, you would not have gotten to see the road approaching the site, and gotten that sense of personal connection with the discussion of the people who recently lived nearby. And so much meaning comes from seeing these things and knowing more completely about such an amazing place. Anyhow - I say thank you so much for bringing this to us - and again, this piece of creative work is truly the greatest example of what we have done as a culture with the technology of the internet.

[GameCrafters]

Hi. I'm from Mexico and have been really interested on these recently investigated places. Last year my favorite museum in the country, the National Museum of the World Cultures opened a permanent exposition about Turkiye and includes réplicas of Gobekli Tepe and other sites. I was very excited when I heard the news

[paulclarke]

I live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. There are artifacts in our local museum of indigenous peoples dating back 13, 000 years. These would as old or older than those of Karahan Tepe. Truly amazing artifacts just a few km from where I live.

[skeptigal]

I have to watch Pete’s videos several times because they relax me so much that at some point I nod off.

[HowlingWof]

We truly have no idea how many civilisations were built Advanced, destroyed only to have to start all over again and repeat.

[ArnarAsistoed]

Pete, you are simply put; Brilliant. I don't have an accurate count on how often I've watched your 'sea peoples' documentary, since it's just so much more in depth than anything remotely close, even by official channels.
Keep up the good work, and hope you're getting enough to scrape by from patrons, because you do top actual, respected, TV channels like bbc in fact checking and deep dive analysis. Love this video, first real video I've found on youtube on Karahan Tepe. Just... Brilliant. Wish you all the best, regards from Iceland, Addi.

[ji]

You put an unbelievable amount of effort into your videos.

They are created at an extremely high level.

[infinitumneo]

It would be amazing to be a fly on the wall during the shamanic journeys of these ancient people. These discoveries are mind expanding in many ways.

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History Time and Fall of Civs are the best history channels on YT! You guys are awesome

[elizabethpengson]

I love your voice.. soothing.. yet dramatic.. it doesn't grate one's ears after 10 mins.. you make the best narrator.. & I love your work

[seanarthurjoyce]

Some truly fine writing here. Bringing in the shamanic theme really makes Karahan Tepe come alive. "A temple of memory." Great.