Uruk also predated the pyramids by a couple millennia and has been known for a pretty good while. Archaeologists also don't use the three-age typology (or the w

Uruk also predated the pyramids by a couple millennia and has been known for a pretty good while. Archaeologists also don't use the three-age typology (or the word "advanced" if possible) anymore. The surprise of gobekli-tepe is mostly in demonstrating once and for all that monumental construction isn't limited to fully sedentary peoples and doing so in a way the diffusionists can't argue with.