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barbaraann

(9,282 posts)
Sun Feb 4, 2024, 01:23 PM Feb 2024

If you, like me, have been wondering why it seems so difficult to find updates on Gobeckli Tepe,

here's a video that might explain the situation. Hint: There's lots of money in tourism for a place touted as THE Zero Point of History. Dang, I really want to know more about all of the Tas Tepeler sites now!!!



https://arkeonews.net/turkeys-tas-tepeler-marks-the-beginning-of-civilization/
(Warning--some NSFW statues)
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If you, like me, have been wondering why it seems so difficult to find updates on Gobeckli Tepe, (Original Post) barbaraann Feb 2024 OP
I watched all the video. GreenWave Feb 2024 #1
That sounds like a good way to excavate and it certainly could be what they are doing in Turkey. barbaraann Feb 2024 #2
What an amazing discovery it is! I heard of this site here when a DU'er posted about it long ago. I became an addict! Judi Lynn Feb 2024 #3
You're welcome!! barbaraann Feb 2024 #4

GreenWave

(8,869 posts)
1. I watched all the video.
Sun Feb 4, 2024, 02:09 PM
Feb 2024

Excavations done in Mexico are often deliberately slow to allow time for new thoughts and perhaps better analytical tools to be employed. It makes for better long term solutions which may occur after our lifespans. So maybe that is the case here too.

barbaraann

(9,282 posts)
2. That sounds like a good way to excavate and it certainly could be what they are doing in Turkey.
Sun Feb 4, 2024, 03:40 PM
Feb 2024

Have you seen this website about paleolithic archeology?
https://donsmaps.com/

Judi Lynn

(162,290 posts)
3. What an amazing discovery it is! I heard of this site here when a DU'er posted about it long ago. I became an addict!
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 04:31 AM
Feb 2024

I am honed for news coming from the area every waking moment! I would drop everything to see an article on it the minute it appears. We all wait together!

Thank you for the video.

(I have heard one of the researchers from the site saying they have only scratched the surface, that there is a vast area stretching at least 25 miles covered by soil to be revealed in the time ahead. There is also another site in the region named another "Tepe" which also is being slowly explored.

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