Göbekli Tepe: Temples From 10,000 B.C.

[blessmycottonsocks]

Exceptional recent video of a visit to the site itself and the museum/visitor centre.
Lots of new excavations are currently under way and the presenter of the video plans to return in September 2022 to see what new areas have been opened up to the public.
Some of those beautifully flat concrete floors would put modern builders to shame.

 

[brownmane]

Exceptional recent video of a visit to the site itself and the museum/visitor centre.
Lots of new excavations are currently under way and the presenter of the video plans to return in September 2022 to see what new areas have been opened up to the public.
Some of those beautifully flat concrete floors would put modern builders to shame.

I like the fact that the archaeologists are looking at the possibility that some of the area may have involved female builders.

I think that we who live in a patriarchal society don't always recognize that there can be a bias to how ancient civilizations may have come about. It's good to see that some people are presenting some different ideas.

 

[MrRING]

Ran across this, a recent tourist seeing the site:

 

[Jim]

Ran across this, a recent tourist seeing the site:

won't play?

 

[brownmane]

won't play?

it worked for me

 

[ramonmercado]

it worked for me

Me too but the dialogue is in Turkish. Still worth watching though.

 

[MrRING]

Me too but the dialogue is in Turkish. Still worth watching though.

I couldn't understand a word either,but I had never seen just regular footage of this extraordinary site.

 

[ramonmercado]

stone carvings contemporaneous with Göbekli Tepe found.

About 11,000 years ago in what is now southern Turkey, hunter-gatherers abandoned their roving lifestyles to settle down. They built durable stone homes and monuments centuries before farming took hold there. Now, a recently discovered carving offers a glimpse into the beliefs, fears, and stories shared by these Neolithic Anatolians.

Uncovered beneath the village of Sayburç, the 3.7-meter-long stone panel depicts a wild bull, snarling leopards, and two humans flaunting conspicuous penises. At sites nearby, archaeologists have found carvings of fierce predators and phallic figures, but the depicted characters don’t appear to notice one another. Most stand alone as sculptures or are stacked vertically on pillars, without shared gazes, communicative gestures, or other signs of interaction. The Sayburç relief, however, portrays the characters together across two horizontal scenes, which might constitute the region’s oldest narrative art, a researcher reports today in Antiquity.

“It’s a very interesting find because it shows different elements we know from other [early Neolithic] sites in combination,” says Bernd Müller-Neuhof, an archaeologist with the German Archaeological Institute who was not involved in the research.

In southeastern Anatolia, lifestyles changed radically between 12,000 and 9000 years ago, as nomadic hunter-gatherers gradually became sedentary and, later, took up farming. During this transition, early villagers constructed fantastic round-walled buildings more than 10 meters in diameter. The stone structures featured megalithic pillars sculpted into lions, serpents, and other frightening creatures, exhibiting their nastiest bits—teeth, claws, horns, and the like. The art also depicted phalluses, free-standing or attached to human figures.

In the 1990s, archaeologists discovered these Neolithic buildings at Göbekli Tepe, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site about 90 kilometers east of the Euphrates River. Initially, researchers assumed Neolithic people pooled resources to construct a one-of-a-kind site for mass rituals. But archaeologists have since found more than a dozen nearby sites with similar art and architecture in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa district, tucked between the Taurus Mountains and Mesopotamian plains. “It’s becoming more and more obvious that this is just the standard way that villages were built in the early Neolithic in that part of Turkey,” says the University of Toronto’s Edward Banning, an archaeologist who proposed the idea a decade ago. ,,,

https://www.science.org/content/art...gs-depict-showdowns-between-humans-and-beasts

 

[ramonmercado]

Statues of auto-eroticisist, wild boar and vulture unearthed at temple sites.

A 7.5-foot-tall statue of a man clutching his penis was unearthed at one of the oldest temple sites in Turkey.

This human-like sculpture was found at Karahan Tepe. The person represented may actually be depicted as being dead. The newly found sculptures date back about 11,000 years. (Image credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor via Getty Images)

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a nearly 11,000-year-old statue that may depict a giant man clutching his penis, along with a life-size wild boar statue. The two statues come from the neighboring sites of Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, which are among the oldest temple sites in the world.

The wild boar statue, which is carved from limestone, was found at Gobekli Tepe and dates to between 8700 B.C. and 8200 B.C. It measures 4.4 feet (1.4 meters) long and 2.3 feet (0.7 m) high, the German Archaeological Institute said in a statement. Archaeologists detected red, black and white pigments on its surface, indicating that the sculpture was once painted. Archaeologists unearthed the large sculpture of the manat the site of Karahan Tepe, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Gobekli Tepe. It depicts a 7.5-foot-tall (2.3 m) man, according to a translated statement from Turkey's ministry of culture and tourism. The person's ribs, spines and shoulders are particularly pronounced, and the person may actually be depicted as being dead, the statement said.

These discoveries, "represent the latest spectacular finds from these sites which are transforming our understanding of pre-agricultural communities," Benjamin Arbuckle, an anthropology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved with the excavations, told Live Science in an email.

Researchers also found a small sculpture of a vulture nearby at Karahan Tepe. While archaeologists didn't say how old the newfound statues at, Karahan Tepe are, the site is around 11,000 years old and contains other sculptures and buildings.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...giant-man-clutching-penis-unearthed-in-turkey

 

[brownmane]

Statues of auto-eroticisist, wild boar and vulture unearthed at temple sites.

A 7.5-foot-tall statue of a man clutching his penis was unearthed at one of the oldest temple sites in Turkey.

This human-like sculpture was found at Karahan Tepe. The person represented may actually be depicted as being dead. The newly found sculptures date back about 11,000 years. (Image credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor via Getty Images)

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a nearly 11,000-year-old statue that may depict a giant man clutching his penis, along with a life-size wild boar statue. The two statues come from the neighboring sites of Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, which are among the oldest temple sites in the world.

The wild boar statue, which is carved from limestone, was found at Gobekli Tepe and dates to between 8700 B.C. and 8200 B.C. It measures 4.4 feet (1.4 meters) long and 2.3 feet (0.7 m) high, the German Archaeological Institute said in a statement. Archaeologists detected red, black and white pigments on its surface, indicating that the sculpture was once painted. Archaeologists unearthed the large sculpture of the manat the site of Karahan Tepe, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) from Gobekli Tepe. It depicts a 7.5-foot-tall (2.3 m) man, according to a translated statement from Turkey's ministry of culture and tourism. The person's ribs, spines and shoulders are particularly pronounced, and the person may actually be depicted as being dead, the statement said.

These discoveries, "represent the latest spectacular finds from these sites which are transforming our understanding of pre-agricultural communities," Benjamin Arbuckle, an anthropology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved with the excavations, told Live Science in an email.

Researchers also found a small sculpture of a vulture nearby at Karahan Tepe. While archaeologists didn't say how old the newfound statues at, Karahan Tepe are, the site is around 11,000 years old and contains other sculptures and buildings.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...giant-man-clutching-penis-unearthed-in-turkey

So this proves that in 11,000 years men have not evolved beyond playing with their penises