Only Five Percent of the ancient structures have been uncovered so far in thirteen years of digging.
Precisely formed, but no stone cutting tools have been discovered. Animal carvings may be an "Ark in Stone" commemorating the Great Flood, which would push it to the end of the last great Ice Age.
It is indeed close to Mt. Ararat where the Ark may have landed. This important site was carefully buried under twenty feet of sand - perhaps to preserve it for the future.
Göbekli Tepe (Turkish for "Potbelly hill") is a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge some 15 km northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa (formerly Urfa / Edessa) in southeastern Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is the oldest human-made place of worship yet discovered.[ The site, currently undergoing excavation by German and Turkish archaeologists, was erected by hunter-gatherers in the 12th millennium BC (c. 11,500 years ago), before the advent of sedentism. Together with Nevalı Çori, it has revolutionized understanding of the Eurasian Neolithic.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
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Sep 12, 2009Thx for watching this clip. This new updated version contains a few corrections of errors and glitches that were still present during the first video I made about this neolithic structure.
And again I just have to apologize for the crappy quality. Guess it'll take a while, till I figured out a resolution and bitrate that actually works.
Regarding the Firepit:
I have recieved several comments saying there is no evidence whatsoever for a fire pit ever being there. Fair enough critisim, yet I'd like people to note that I am NOT A scientist and this reconstruction is not necessarily an accurate depiction of the site 11.000 years ago. I do not profess to uphold truths here.
Yet, the reason why I included the fire pit was because I see the pillars as a sort of maya stella. It is quite probable that rituals where performed here similar to what we know from the aborigenes. They, as well as the mayans used fire as a medium so it is likely that the people of this site used the same medium to tell whatever stories they made up about the critters on the stellas.
Regarding the Causeway
The causeway in this clip is purely ornamental 'garb', though it is quite possible that such a thing could have existed (kind of hard to work out what's left after 11.000 years!) and that it functioned in a similar fashion as the Nazca lines or the labyriths of northern Europe.
Rergarding the Reliefs:
The reliefs I created by recoloring pics from the actual site using MicroGraphx Picture Publisher. Again I want to point out that this is purely speculative and (how else) based on my own impressions.
Concerning the hole beside the boar... I wasn't sure whether it was part of the site or inflicted in later times. If anyone knows anything about it, please leave a comment and I'll add a short dislcaiming annotation.
Other minor corrections:
. The temple now has a 'door' in the inside (!) and I changed the texture of the surrounding stellas a wee bit.
. I modified the roof (texture and form) and added a wooden rim to (finally) be able to show the torches used to light the interior.
. I (obviously) removed the sky in the back- cause it just looked stupid in the 1.0 version.
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Göbekli Tepe update
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