The Ancient Mystery of Gobekli Tepe: Unraveling History's Greatest Puzzle

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[fawziekefli]

"The pre-pottery period was the time before pottery was invented."

I love the way that worked out for the archeologists.

[dragonxx]

And the fact that they already used ground penetrative radar that shows structures UNDER the one we see today. So even older than 9000BC

[lauriepenner]

Archaeology is weird. Imagine if future archaeologists discovered our society through the remains of a single adult toy store, and historians called us "the D**do People" for the rest of history.

[zam]

The challenge with such early sites is the urge to impose our assumptions...that we have also imposed on far later developed societies/civilizations

[acmelka]

I appreciate Simon being a real person. Half the voices on videos aren't anymore.

[BabyMissions]

"Well, it was either a temple, an observatory, or a KOA campground... but no matter what it really was, they liked animals and carved a lot of wieners." - Almost every archeologist... at almost every archeological site.

[paradox]

I find it fascinating that this place would have had a name originally, which has been lost to time.
We'll never know what the people who built it and lived there called it and called themselves.

[nobodyfromnowhere]

Proto city of hunter gatherers. Hell this place is so ancient that first Sumerian cities are as far from it as we are from Sumerian cities.

[_maxgray]

Really enjoyed this video, and especially appreciated your reference to primary sources by a variety of researchers. More like this, please!

[Dabuhl]

Been waiting on a SW update on this for years 🎉 let’s

[cynthiadiaz]

Well done video. Thank you for the informative discussion of this important ancient edifice.

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0:35 - Chapter 1 - The site
5:50 - Mid roll ads
7:10 - Chapter 2 - Ancient temples
10:25 - Chapter 3 - Ancient barbecue area
11:55 - Chapter 4 - Astronomical observatory
16:45 - Chapter 5 - Ancient brewery
19:15 - Chapter 6 - Current thinking of gobekli tepe

[chrismac]

I really should start a channel. Gobleki tepe isnt the only site. Initially identified as a prehistoric site in 1963 in the frame of a Turkish-American archaeological survey project, Göbekli Tepe was more or less forgotten for over thirty years, attention turning instead to the site of Çayönü Tepesi (Ergani/Diyarbakır) discovered during the same survey. In the interim years, excavations at Çayönü and other sites, including Cafer Höyük, Hallan Çemi and Nevalı Çori, revealed much more about the transition from hunter-gatherer to sedentary societies. Gobleki tepe is something else.

[aaroneaton]

Would you consider a video about the Paisley Caves in Oregon? The Paisley caves is one of the oldest sites in North America of humans, somewhere around ten thousand years old. Maybe a Sideproject video?

[sechran]

It's an industrial scale cereal mill? ... My god! That scorpion carving? It's the neolithic Captain Crunch!

[larryaftertheroad]

The scorpion and vulture icons really mean step on a scorpion and become vulture food

[codyc]

Your videos are fantastic. Thank you.
Fan from 🍁 🇨🇦 .

[Sniffls-fl]

Absolutely crazy that you can clearly see the carvings 10000 years, our concept of time is so skewed and we have definitely lost so much in transition

[vic]

Been waiting for Simon to cover this fascinating archeological site.

[Meinstein]

Living on the border of the US and Canada, I can imagine a hunting camp where guys get together, hunt, make beer and chip at their totem. Over years, the place would get popular and you would regulate the game and bring grain from home and make more beer and chips and before long.. you have a early day Disneyland.