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A little off topic. Gobekli Tepe is a really fascinating find. The size of the pillars, the inscriptions, the intricate designs of the pottery and jewelry (with
by avenoir 9y ago
A little off topic. Gobekli Tepe is a really fascinating find. The size of the pillars, the inscriptions, the intricate designs of the pottery and jewelry (with cleanly drilled holes in them) give a glimpse of a sophisticated civilization with architecture and farming at a time when humans are supposed to be hunter-gatherers. Graham Hancock has a few very interesting books on this. He seems to believe that humans basically go through periods of amnesia or better put get periodically wiped out, lose their bearings and start over again. We become just like that ancient human circa 5000 BC looking at the ruins of Gobekli Tepe. Or the modern human looking at the Pyramids all over the ancient world and trying to piece history together.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoA more recent example: the Mississippian Culture in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture By the time Europeans penetrated to most of these areas, the cultures were nothing but legends. Only the mounds remained.
- sooheon 9y agoGobekli Tepe is awesome, but Mr. Hancock is a hack. He may begin with facts, but takes them to unfounded conclusions which "challenge mainstream science" (read: contain no discernible falsifiable thesis, recede ever into knowledge gaps, and are defined primarily by being anti-establishment).