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It's only people like Graham Hancock who thinks that hunter gatherers are primitive and unable to do anything organized. The reality is that they were perfectl
by Tor3 3y ago
It's only people like Graham Hancock who thinks that hunter gatherers are primitive and unable to do anything organized. The reality is that they were perfectly capable, and they even have quite a bit more time on their hands than an agricultural society (which until very recently had to work day and night to survive - wait, it's still like that, for modern farmers in my own country. No time for holidays, ever).
The only thing hunter gatherers were lacking compared to agricultural societies was a possible difference in manpower, though for the latter all that manpower was occupied with farming.
I think Graham Hancock & co are confusing hunter-gatherers with nomads always on the move, with nothing more than they could carry. But that's nomads, nobody claimed nomads built Göbekli Tepe.
- dr_dshiv 3y agoI thought the leading theory was that seasonally migrating nomads built Göbekli Tepe — because there is no housing.
- Tor3 3y agoThat was the original claim, these days it's not (from wikipedia: "Current excavators interpret Göbekli Tepe as a settlement, based on recent findings such as domestic structures and features, water supply installations, and Neolithic tools associated with domestic use." The referenced paper seems to be fully available online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358411654_There_and_Back_Again_-_Towards_a_New_Understanding_of_Abandonment_Practices_at_the_Neolithic_Settlement_of_Gobekli_Tepe https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358411654_There_and...