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Provocative article in today's Quora arguing that the Göbekli Tepe culture represents not only the earliest known example of an organised and peaceful society, but possibly the earliest written language (some 20 symbols are carved into the pillars), earliest use of advanced tools, earliest plant domestication and irrigation, earliest use of sleds for construction and possibly even the wheel and the earliest production of beer and bread.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Göbekli-Tepe-find-change-our-view-of-human-history
Further discussion about the possibility of symbols at Göbekli Tepe being a form of script.
In particular, the H-like symbol and the circle bracketed by two C shapes bear a close resemblance to the Luwian/Anatolian hieroglyphics for house (or possibly door) and god respectively.
Given the likely use of Göbekli Tepe as a place of worship, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that symbols carved there were intended to indicate "this place is a doorway to (or house of) god(s)".
Göbekli Tepe predates the Luwian script by some 8 millennia though and is even at least 3,000 years older than the Vinča script, which is emerging as a strong candidate for the oldest known writing. If therefore these symbols do become accepted as a form of proto-script, this would be yet another example of Göbekli Tepe rewriting (no pun really intended) the history books once more.
It has long been thought that Proto Indo-European and its predecessors such as Eurasiatic, Proto-Uralic and Borean left no written evidence.
Just possibly, on those remarkable T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe, we are looking at it.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330759548_World's_First_Known_Written_Word_at_Gobekli_Tepe_on_T-Shaped_Pillar_18_Means_God
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