CLAS 2P34 Lecture 1: Gobekli Tepe
5 May 2016
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Man-made hill = site occupied for 1000"s of years. Successive layers of human use or habitation = hills forms gradually over time. People bring down a house and build one over it and it becomes a hill. Most scholars believe that this is associated with religious beliefs. Animals in art as far back as the cave paintings of the paleolithic (40,000 + years ago) Schmidt and others call the whole site a sanctuary = oldest temples on earth. The other statues seem to be more human, but the pillars are not perhaps to represent gods. 30 km away from the site is wild einkorn wheat = ancestor of domesticated wheat found. 1st builders were hunter /gatherers verge of sedentary agriculture and domestication. Communal feasting here: butchered bones and stone vessels for fermented liquids = beer. We see use of more elaborate stone works, like bowls.
