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There’s quite a bit of evidence for the existing timeline. People quibble about radiocarbon dating, but there’s multiple methods. For example by comparing rin
by Retric 2y ago
There’s quite a bit of evidence for the existing timeline. People quibble about radiocarbon dating, but there’s multiple methods. For example by comparing rings on enough wooden objects you can get a firm this can’t be older than X date.
https://www.nps.gov/tont/learn/nature/dendrochronology.htm https://www.nps.gov/tont/learn/nature/dendrochronology.htm
- tiffanyh 2y agoExactly, and radiocarbon dating puts Göbekli Tepe at being ~12,000 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe#:~:text=Radiocarbon%20dating%20shows%20that%20the,Neolithic%20A%20(PPNA)%20period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe#:~:text=Radiocarb....
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThat's simultaneously true, and misleading to the point of being wrong. The earliest parts of the layers date that far back, yes. The features of Gobekli Tepe that people who aren't archaeologists actually care about like the obelisks date much later around the second phase of the neolithic (PPNB). Also note that Gobekli Tepe is neither the oldest site we know of nor unique in having monumental architecture. Even within the Tepler culture, Karahan Tepe dates earlier and I'm sure you heard of the older site of Jericho.
- danparsonson 2y agoFrom your link: "Radiocarbon dating shows that the earliest exposed structures at Göbekli Tepe were built between 9500 and 9000 BCE"
- Retric 2y ago~9500 BCE + 2024 - 1 = ~11,523 years ago. So yea not quite 12,000 years ago.
- danparsonson 2y agoOops, thank you - I can't read apparently!
- colibri727 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event