Gobekli Tepe – the site that destroys the entire hunter-gatherer paradigm
Posted On: Mar 27th, 2018 at 13:17
Turkey
Gobekli Tepe, so far the oldest site ever found on planet earth and dating to 9600 BC, completely destroys every single theory regarding the hunter-gatherer element of human evolution. That theory, however, was in my eyes already the most badly put together idea based on loose and often ridiculous ideas of simplicity.
Prior to Gobekli Tepe we were led to believe we walked out of the fields and built the pyramids – the most complex mathematical structures on planet earth, and the most difficult to engineer – as if somehow growing wheat gave us the answers to the secrets of geometry. The pyramids were already a clue to earlier, lost ingenuity on the part of our ancestors. At least Gobekli Tepe shows us human beings were building complex structures more than 7,000 years earlier than the pyramids, and which also coincides with the likely age of the Sphinx.
So now the prevailing hunter-gatherer theory is all over the place, broken into many pieces with most mainstream archaeologists scratching their heads and rummaging around for any clue that will bring a definitive statement. But it won’t. The human evolution story in the last ten thousand years is far more complex than a neatly packaged idea based on a few finds. We are now discovering more and more sites that go way beyond ancient Egypt and push the dates of human society and knowledge of astronomy and mathematics back threefold at the very least.
The presumed smooth transition of humans evolving from one phase to another is a joke, to the point that we almost have to question the intelligence of some mainstream archaeologists. And there is so much more than just the dates…
