Interesting. Synopsis is that there's a temple complex in Turkey that dates back 11,500 years, way before anything like it (6,000 years before stone henge, for

Interesting. Synopsis is that there's a temple complex in Turkey that dates back 11,500 years, way before anything like it (6,000 years before stone henge, for example). The earlier theories were that farming and animal domestication led to stuff like religion, since it made food more abundant and stable. This guy is saying, based on this finding, that in fact religion prompted them to build the temple complex, and the task of maintaining it prompted people to get clever about staying in one spot and supplying a population with food. I'm not qualified to evaluate the merit of the claim, but hot damn those are old temples!