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originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: edward777
so I had a little scan in on five mins and this guy is talking about 1) previous human civilisations reaching the moon and 2) how Gobekli Tepe is actually a highly advanced city. I stopped there as 1) IMO did not and could never have happened and 2) is not true (what has been uncovered so far is a series of cult centres and not a city).
I stopped at that point due to lack of faith and as it's really not my bag.....
originally posted by: Heliocentric
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: edward777
so I had a little scan in on five mins and this guy is talking about 1) previous human civilisations reaching the moon and 2) how Gobekli Tepe is actually a highly advanced city. I stopped there as 1) IMO did not and could never have happened and 2) is not true (what has been uncovered so far is a series of cult centres and not a city).
I stopped at that point due to lack of faith and as it's really not my bag.....
As a trained (former) archaeologist specialized in prehistoric cultures, I can tell you that there is absolutely no scientific evidence telling us that Göbleki Tepe was a 'cult center'. It could have been, but that is just a theory put forward by Klaus Schmidt, the now deceased head archaeologist at GT. The latest excavations indicate that they were making beer at the site, so was it a cult center or a brewery? Hopefully we'll find out more in the future, but for now nothing is certain.
originally posted by: peter vlar
a reply to: Heliocentric
I think at this stage of the excavations its a bit premature to make any sort of definitive statements regarding GT. its been 18 years since Schmidt starting work there and still only about 5% of the Neolithic parts of the site have been worked and excavated to any extent. If the entire site were completely composed of what Schmidt had uncovered thus far then he might have a little ground to stand on with his hypothesis but I think that the most exciting finds at GT are still buried and won't be uncovered for decades. Only when a lot more of the site is uncovered and documented will we really know or have a clue what exactly was going on there and to what extent, over 10 millennia ago.
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: Heliocentric
As someone who took the same educational/career path for a while at least, i was going on the old fall back of "ritual"; but a city has not been found, which was my point after all.
originally posted by: Heliocentric
originally posted by: skalla
a reply to: edward777
so I had a little scan in on five mins and this guy is talking about 1) previous human civilisations reaching the moon and 2) how Gobekli Tepe is actually a highly advanced city. I stopped there as 1) IMO did not and could never have happened and 2) is not true (what has been uncovered so far is a series of cult centres and not a city).
I stopped at that point due to lack of faith and as it's really not my bag.....
The latest excavations indicate that they were making beer at the site, so was it a cult center or a brewery?