What do we know about the people who built Gobekli Tepe? Because everything about the site seems incredible

Umm sweetie, nobody couldve built that 10000 years ago.

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What do you guys think about Hancock? Is he, dare I say it, our guy?

He's the man.

It was built by ancient TÜRKS

Who ever buried it, preserved it for us. Thank you ancient person.

It's interesting and strikes to the heart of my current frustration with society, namely that there are two religious orders, monotheism and naturalism. Monotheism insists angels or aliens did it, and naturalism insists we are as advanced as we ever were, so cavemen did it.

It seems likely civilization was much more advanced than we give credit for. This goes against the narrative though, so we won't likely get any real answers in our lifetime.

The stone architecture of the pre-"flood" world are amazing and if you search long enough, you can find a few interesting reads.

>ywn be this comfy

>And not sure what's so impressive about it, it's literally just a bunch of carves stones.

Which shares an enormous amount of symbolism with Pacific aboriginals.

That is pretty comfy

>shares symbolism with Pacific aboriginals
[citation needed]

This

symbolism is pretty much universal

Nigger no part of antediluvian architecture or construction actually required technology beyond the capabilities we know the people of that era to have had; what it requires and what makes it interesting is that it requires a level of cooperation and social hierarchy we previously thought didn't exist at the time.

The idea the stones were moved and fitted in place by ropes and pulleys is beyond retarded. How the great pyramids were used is still not adequately answered. How they were lighted when no carbon residue was ever found inside still isn't answered.

There are keystones weighing several tons having been used. Don't give me this nonsense.

>How they were lighted when no carbon residue was ever found inside still isn't answered.
mirrors nigga

Looks as though it might have been the location of a great sacrifice/suicide of some thousands of Shamans gathered from all over the world with the intent of all being reincarnated as one.

sounds familiar

>The idea the stones were moved and fitted in place by ropes and pulleys is beyond retarded
based on fucking WHAT? The fact that you don't have the mechanical knowledge to dig slopes and use leverage correctly?

>tfw memecock was right all along

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4432554/Stone-carvings-confirm-comet-hit-Earth-13-000-years-ago.html

ed.ac.uk/news/2017/ancient-stone-confirms-date-of-comet-strike

maajournal.com/Issues/2017/Vol17-1/Sweatman and Tsikritsis 17(1).pdf

I read that Chambers inside are literally blackened by torch soot

>Because everything about the site seems incredible.
That's only because you don't know much about archaeology and are listening to people like Graham Hancock too much. In reality, the site isn't THAT impressive from an architectural standpoint. It's some to some very basic architecture and stonework, and even that was after a pretty long period of development at the site. The only thing really impressive about it is its age, and how it implies that a bunch of hunter-gatherers were willing to get together and build a ritual site (that was important for a long time) before agriculture became common. That's really cool, and it has a lot of very interesting implications, but all of the bullshit surrounding the site has overshadowed that, which is a real tragedy.

Seriously, in basic terms, what this site tells us is that religion was important enough to early humans that the first permanent structures we built were for worship, and not grain storage or housing. And that people who were still fairly nomadic saw their religion as important enough to build stone monuments (and maintain them for a long ass time) to practice. That's really fucking cool, and says a lot of about our species. But no, all you you ever see about this site in pop culture is how aliens built it, or how it implies that some kind of (logically impossible) space-age civilization existed thousands of years ago. It bums me out that people are missing really interesting stuff because they'd rather be sold a science fiction story by charlatans like Graham Hancock.

That article sucks, and journalists latching onto it says a lot about the sorry state of science reporting in pop culture.

>Written by engineers with no archaeological training, and who have never been to the site or studied it firsthand
>Using modern zodiac symbols to interpret ancient art from a culture we still don't know a ton about
>All kind of interference about events based on what the authors really want the art to say, but what isn't actually depicted clearly

Thar article is a fucking travesty, and anyone with a shred of critical thinking or archaeological training wouldn't take it seriously. I actually thought it was a joke the first time I read it. It's just a bunch of (>implying) from people who don't really know what they're talking about, and even then, their conclusions are highly speculative. It doesn't even really matter whether the implosion hypothesis is right or not, because that's absolutely awful scholarship, and nothing in the article does anything in favor of it (not to mention, how it does nothing to support any kind of Hancockian hypothesis).

I see this meme a lot but it makes no sense. How do they know that much more is there if it's uncovered?

Common misconception. There is plenty of soot in the inner chambers of the pyramids.

Not either of those guys, but it's really not that hard to tell how big a site is. Something advanced like GPR can tell you where things or buried, and even basic techniques like pedestrian survey can tell you a lot if you know what you're looking at. Archaeology is a pretty sophisticated field that requires a lot of specialized knowledge, and the general pubic thinks they have an idea of how it works, because of Indiana Jones are dumbed down Discovery channel documentaries, but in reality, unless you've had some graduate experience in the field, you don't really know anything about it.

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Did the people at Gobekli Tepe do they plaster skull thing too?

are these the same guys who built catal hoyuk

Religion is literally the building block of Civilization. You could see this without even knowing about G T.

Yes the birth of the God Emprah

Who do you guys think built the area?

Caucasian Hunter Gatherhers?
Villabruna Hunter Gatherers?
Proto-Anatolian farmers?

Seems like the proto Anatolians would be the most likely out of those choices

Another proof that Turkey brought civilization to us.

It is a PPNB site

PPNB culture bearers were a mix of Natufians and Native Levatines/Mesopotamians

>Anatolia
>the same as Turkey
Sure, roach

cry more wh*Te boy

Ancient Anatolians were BLACK hence TÜRK

It is a truly enormous structure that was purposefully buried

It represents a huge megalithic project with some stones weighing up to 40 tonnes, that was built at the end of the last ice age.

In other words it was build long before agriculture even existed, and in fact agriculture seemed to pop into existence around this area after the site was built. The whole thing just stinks of mystery, it makes no sense in the context of modern archaeological theory.

It's literally going to rewrite the history books.

>BLACKED TURKS !

Proto-Evangelion

You are the first one in this threat who mentions ayys and space-age civilizations.

This is also nothing Hancock implies. He is talking about an advanced lost civilization before the great flood with knowledge about megalithic stonework, astronomy, geometry, mathematics and similar things. Nothing about space travel or ayys.

This doesn't even imply metal working or agriculture, just an advanced understanding and organization in certain fields that most people today think was not there at that time.