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The property, its buffer zone and its wider setting are protected by a strict regime of maintenance and control, derived from extensive statutory protection and state ownership.
Göbekli Tepe is legally protected by Law 2863/1983 on the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Properties, amended in 1987 and 2004. In 2005, the tell and the limestone plateau were inscribed as a 1st Degree Archaeological Conservation Site by the decision of the Diyarbakır Council for Conservation of Cultural and Natural Properties. In 2016, the buffer zone was registered as a 3rd Degree Archaeological Conservation Site, by the decision of the Şanlıurfa Council for Conservation of Cultural Properties.
Göbekli Tepe calls that conventional wisdom into question. Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who led excavations at the site, argued before he died in 2014 that it might have worked the other way around: The vast labor force needed to build the enclosures pushed people to develop agriculture as a way of providing predictable food—and perhaps drink—for workers.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Turkey’s Doğuş Group will announce Wednesday that they plan to spend $15 million over the next 20 years on the project, in partnership with the National Geographic Society. “Göbekli Tepe is our zero point in time,” Doğuş Group chairman Ferit F. Şahenk said in a press release.
originally posted by: CosmicFocus
in some cases covered over with concrete and asphalt and confining structures, while other parts are going to be left unexplored for future until the distant future?
Göbekli Tepe
whc.unesco.org...
originally posted by: Skinnerbot
a reply to: Kurokage
If knowledge of the site was hidden prior to 1994 we may not have a clue.
Nobody here on ATS got the invite to Davos.
Only a small percentage of the site has been excavated, with only 4 circles having been exposed in the main excavation site out of over 20 in total.
Despite being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2018, the site has not yet been ‘discovered’ by tourists.
For an introduction to the site, visit the impressive Sanliurfa museum, which displays artefacts discovered at the site, including the oldest full size stone sculpture of man in the world.
originally posted by: Fowlerstoad
a reply to: CosmicFocus
The so-called 'powers that be' don't want us to discover what Gobekli Tepe reveals about the recurrent solar micronova, I suppose....
Oh well. It isn't the first site that has been 'covered up' to obscure this recurrent catastrophe.
originally posted by: Skinnerbot
a reply to: Kurokage
You claim the significance of the site was cognized in '94.
Wiki claims 1963 was the first time GT showed up in University of Chicago survey.
The 1963 description claimed the Neolithic elements were covered by more recent Islamic cemetery.
That implies that there were political reasons for not disturbing the place.
Maybe we could have flown there in an old Star Trek episode like "The City on the edge of Tomorrow"
The Guardian portal could have shown us the way?
Cordrazine fixes this...
Prior to the German archeologist embarking on what can only be termed as the discovery of the century, a group of archaeologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul in the 1960s scratched the surface of the site. However, they thought little about it by quickly relegating it to some Dark Ages burial ground. The archaeologists simply disregarded it. Thankfully, three decades later, Klaus Schmidt did the exact opposite by digging farther.
"During this year's work we made a large number of findings such as grinding stones and hammerstones indicating daily use in these places," Necmi Karul, an archeologist at Istanbul University and leader of the dig team, told Anadolu Agency
Some scientists, primarily those not connected to the core group excavating the site, have speculated that Gobekli Tepe was actually an astronomical observatory, or perhaps even the biblical Garden of Eden.
People didn't live here so maybe they came for the artistic expression and might not have needed such elaborate roof structures?