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andsoitistoday at 12:56 PM1 replyview on HN

I think you're taking this the wrong way. It is certainly amazing and shows advanced culture! However, there's no evidence of civilization. That does not mean brute, or unsophisticated.


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MomsAVoxelltoday at 1:01 PM

How so? The suggestion is that Gobekli Tepe is the original T-shaped pillar school of agricultural knowledge, thousands and thousands of years old, and which was subsequently replicated in another region of the world where agricultural knowledge also rapidly expanded through human industry.

That’s pretty clear. That it has not been academically demonstrated is of course relevant - but then, the research at Gobekli Tepe came to a screeching halt around the same time this idea was first proposed, so perhaps it is important to do more than just scratch the surface of the subject ..

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