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> The findings in Göbleki Tepe proves that you don't need a massive agricultural civilization to create impressive stone works. Is this definitive? Couldn’t it
by dueienfjxiabags 3y ago
> The findings in Göbleki Tepe proves that you don't need a massive agricultural civilization to create impressive stone works.
Is this definitive? Couldn’t it be evidence that the people that built it might have had massive agriculture that we haven’t found yet?
- stubish 3y agoThey haven't found anything that would require an agricultural society to support it. Also, the time and location matches the origin of the oldest known strains of farmed grain. And the remains of people from agricultural societies differs dramatically from non-agricultural, again not far away in time and space from Gobleki Tepe. And the amount and type of animal remains suggests non-agricultural diet, with animals hunted and slaughtered elsewhere and carried in (the site wasn't used year round). So dawn of agriculture. A popular theory is this sort of society grew big enough (due to abundance of animals in the region at that time) that they needed to start farming for non-essentials, such as grain for alcohol, kicking off what would become agricultural societies.