Who Built the Temple... 12,000 Years Old!
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/national-geographic-channel/specials-1/history-events/ngc-who-built-the-temple/
Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years agoa staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculturethe first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, became that emberthe spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed.
Gbekli Tepethe name in Turkish for "potbelly hill"lays art and religion squarely at the start of that journey. After a dozen years of patient work, Schmidt has uncovered what he thinks is definitive proof that a huge ceremonial site flourished here, a "Rome of the Ice Age," as he puts it, where hunter-gatherers met to build a complex religious community. Across the hill, he has found carved and polished circles of stone, with terrazzo flooring and double benches. All the circles feature massive T-shaped pillars that evoke the monoliths of Easter Island.
Though not as large as Stonehengethe biggest circle is 30 yards across, the tallest pillars 17 feet highthe ruins are astonishing in number. Last year Schmidt found his third and fourth examples of the temples. Ground-penetrating radar indicates that another 15 to 20 such monumental ruins lie under the surface. Schmidt's German-Turkish team has also uncovered some 50 of the huge pillars, including two found in his most recent dig season that are not just the biggest yet, but, according to carbon dating, are the oldest monumental artworks in the world.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/02/18/history-in-the-remaking.html
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Personally, I think it was this dude:
LOL... reading "Chariotsof the Gods" again?
HE, he, he..."less a product of culture than a cause of it, less a revelation than a genetic inheritance."overturn some apple-carts alright.
Fantasticdiscovery andthankyou Perrie!
I just found itfascinating. This find andresearchflies in the face of what we think we know, which has always been my case about anthropology, and religion. There is so much that we don't know, right here on earth. That's what makes me so mad aboutcertaintiesthat people claim. In the scheme of things... we know next to nothing.
Now that is fascinating. Is it possible that there is a God or Gods after all?
Me too, did you read the article re: America may have actually been first settled by Euros, and not the Russian/asian contingency as first thought?
Exactly.
The biggestobstacleto human advancement is our ego.
If this discovery demonstrates that my ancestors were Turkish taffy pullers I'm gonna have an identity crisis .
LOL
Nah...just some really good architects.
Pre Clovis society. Not universally accepted as fact even though there is plenty of physical factual evidence to support it. Synthesis and Brinwys on the vine are active researchers on this topic, but it holds an intense interest for me as well. In fact, even fiction writers like David Gibbons (a real life underwater archaeologist) investigate and support this in real life.
So, not a stretch by my mind, and i am a little surprised everytime something like this is found and everybody IS. Either way though, cool story and great find.
So much for the 6 thousand year old Earth theory.....
LOL Shelly,
You always know just the right line to say.
I wonder too Peter;thisis an interesting topic. I do not think it too far fetched that there have been lost civilizations, as a matter of fact, it is IMHO highlypresumptuousand egotistical without proof, to state such.
And I am Moses and I have brought you these tablets...