Göbekli Tepe: NO ALIENS DID NOT BUILD IT. Sources inside!!

I am REUSING THIS.   Updated accordingly to deal with the fact that the issue of Gobekli Tepe being misrepresented... again.    

In Feburary, over the course of six hours, I  had well over a dozen people on TikTok either tag me or message me a video about this girl and her four part series on Gobekli Tempe, an ancient site located in Turkey.  More Pseudoscience abounded here, With a not surprising lack of sources, dismissal of actual research, a failure to point out the context of inscriptions and carvings and artifacts found at the site, and all of the other hogwash that comes from theories that are out in left field and have something to do with the fucking aliens.  Claims of it predating things in human history......and I had to slap it down.

And it has reared its head again:  the pseudo science

The failure to cite sources

The Postulations of people who have followed the conspiracy rabbit holes that have created their opinions based on the writings of  authors like Graham Hancock, authors who have  given their own opinion and interpretation as fact.  

So here we go again.

Listen up:

Gobekli Tepe, based on hard evidence, is 12000 years old. 

Ceramics: 25-30,000 years old

Pottery Specifically: 18500 years old.

Agriculture: Domesticated Plants and farming, 11500 years old

Domesticated Livestock:  Between 11 and 13,000 years old. 

I will give it to her, that Gobekli Tepe predates the wheel.

I recommend Ardbeg Wee Beastie, a 5 year single malt Islay Scotch, to deal with this sort of shenanigans.  

Once again,  I am flummoxed by the modern American’s inability to give credit to a realistic thing, and ALWAYS default to the notion that “Aliens Did It.”    Seriously, what in the actual fuck?    Let’s look at a thing, say “We dont know at the moment how it was done” and then immediately go running head fucking long into the most ridiculous, out in the stands idea that has absolutely no fucking proof, and squeal, “ALIENS MUST HAVE SHOWED UP AND DID IT”,  and swallow it like a trout on a fly lure.   If you were charged with a crime with the same sort of evidence that we archaeologists have supporting that aliens built Gobekli Tepe or the Pyramids or any other massive engineering feat that cant be attributed to white people,  you would be screaming and demanding a retrial.     

Flat fucking blows my mind.   

SO MUCH SO THAT I WENT AND FOUND YOU SOURCES!!!!!

Seriously, wasn’t hard, which proves that people are LAZY.   @Occultbot on twitter is not a fucking source.   The fact that people buy that, as well.....fuck.   Why am I not rich?  I could get people to buy fake artifacts and ancient aliens hats too.  

Oh, Right.  I have a soul.   

ANYWAY, Sources. 

Gobekli Tepe:

Easy Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe

Full Source List: 

·       Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): "Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit." Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung im Badischen Landesmuseum vom 20. Januar bis zum 17. Juni 2007. Theiss, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-8062-2072-8

·       Banning, Edward B. (2011). "So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East". Current Anthropology. 52 (5 - October 2011): 619–60. doi:10.1086/661207.

·       Andrew Curry, "Seeking the Roots of Ritual", Science 319 (18 January 2008), pp. 278–280:

·       Curry, Andrew (2008). "Göbekli Tepe: The World's First Temple?". Smithsonian (November 2008). ISSN 0037-7333.

·       DVD-ROM: MediaCultura (Hrsg.): Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2090-2

·       Flannery, Kent; Marcus, Joyce (2012). The Creation of Inequality. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674064690.

·       David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce, "An Accidental revolution? Early Neolithic religion and economic change", Minerva, 17 #4 (July/August, 2006), 29–31.

·       Klaus-Dieter Linsmeier and Klaus Schmidt: "Ein anatolisches Stonehenge". In: Moderne Archäologie. Spektrum-der-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003, 10–15, ISBN 3-936278-35-0.

·       Mann, Charles C. (2011). "The Birth of Religion: The World's First Temple". National Geographic. Vol. 219 no. 6 - June 2011.

·       Mithen, Steven (2004). After the Ice:A global human history, 20,000–5000 BC. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67401570-3.

·       Peters, Joris; Schmidt, Klaus (2004). "Animals in the symbolic world of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment". Anthropozoologica. 39 (1).

·       K. Pustovoytov: Weathering rinds at exposed surfaces of limestone at Göbekli Tepe. In: Neo-lithics. Ex Oriente, Berlin 2000, 24–26 (14C-Dates)

·       Erika Qasim: "The T-shaped monuments of Gobekli Tepe: Posture of the Arms". In: Chr. Sütterlin et al. (ed.): Art as Behaviour. An Ethological Approach to Visual and Verbal Art, Music and Architecture. Oldenburg 2014, 252–272

·       Scham, Sandra (2008). "The World's First Temple". Archaeology. 61 (6 - November/December 2008).

·       Schmidt, Klaus (1998). "Frühneolithische Tempel. Ein Forschungsbericht zum präkeramischen Neolithikum Obermesopotamiens". Mitteilungen der deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Berlin (130): 17–49. ISSN 0342-118X.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2000). "Zuerst kam der Tempel, dann die Stadt." Vorläufiger Bericht zu den Grabungen am Göbekli Tepe und am Gürcütepe 1995–1999". Istanbuler Mitteilungen (50): 5–41.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2000a). "Göbekli Tepe and the rock art of the Near East". TÜBA-AR (3): 1–14.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2000b). "Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey. A preliminary Report on the 1995–1999 Excavations". Palèorient (CNRS ed.). Paris (26.1): 45–54. ISSN 0153-9345.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2006). Sie bauten die ersten Tempel. Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger (in German). München: C.H. Beck. ISBN 3406535003.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2009). "Göbekli Tepe. Eine Beschreibung der wichtigsten Befunde erstellt nach den Arbeiten der Grabungsteams der Jahre 1995–2007". In Schmidt, Klaus (ed.). Erste Tempel – Frühe Siedlungen. 12000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur, Ausgrabungen und Forschungen zwischen Donau und Euphrat (in German). Oldenburg: Florian Isensee. ISBN 978-3899955637.

·       Schmidt, Klaus (2010). "Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries: New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs" (PDF). Documenta Praehistorica (XXXVII): 239–56.

Schmidt, Klaus (2011). "Göbekli Tepe: A Neolithic Site in Southwestern Anatolia". In Steadman, Sharon R.; McMahon, Gregory (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000-323 BCE). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195376142.

·       Metin Yeşilyurt, "Die wissenschaftliche Interpretation von Göbeklitepe: Die Theorie und das Forschungsprogramm". (Neolithikum und ältere Metallzeiten. Studien und Materialien, Band 2.) Lit Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12528-6.

"Göbekli Tepe". Megalithic Portal.

 

·       Official website

·       Göbekli Tepe preservation project summary by Global Heritage Fund

·       Explore Göbekli Tepe with Google Earth on Global Heritage Network

·       "Tepe Telegrams: News & Notes from the Göbekli Tepe Research Staff". (Official blog, providing frequent updates on the progress of excavations, current interpretations of excavation results, and information on publications and events.)

·       [1] 3D model

Articles

·       Andreit, Mihai (4 September 2013). "World's oldest temple probably built to worship the dog star, Sirius". ZME Science.

·       Batuman, Elif (19 December 2011). "The Sanctuary". The New Yorker. Dept of Archeology.

·       Birch, Nicholas (23 April 2008). "7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists". The Guardian.

·       Dietrich, Laura; et al. (2019). "Cereal Processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey". PLOS ONE. 14 (5): e0215214. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1415214D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215214. PMC 6493732. PMID 31042741.

·       Mann, Charles C. (June 2011). "The Birth of Religion". National Geographic.

·       Symmes, Patrick (18 February 2010). "Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History". Newsweek.

·       Buzzwords, Bogeymen, and Banalities of Pseudoarchaeology: Göbekli Tepe

·       Dunning, Brian (21 April 2020). "Skeptoid #724: Decoding Gobekli Tepe". Skeptoid.

Photographs

·       "The Birth of Religion". National Geographic. June 2011.

Videos

·       Gobeklitepe: The World's First Temple, documentary film

·       Göbekli Tepe Reconstructed on YouTube Mar 23, 2009. 3d walkthrough

·       RIR-Klaus Schmidt-Göbekli Tepe-The Worlds Oldest Temple? on YouTube Jan 8, 2011. Interview with principal excavator

 

J-STOR

JSTOR.org : Did you know that all these professional documents that are available to research Gobekli Tepe OR any other pseudoscience site can easily be accessed here?  

 FIVE HUNDRED, SEVENTY SIX  SOURCES.    Articles and Research papers and reports and scientific documentation: Photos and Videos and other media!

Its like this site has been professionally examined and STILL has work being done on it!

The Full Search Results https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Gobekli+Tepe&acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none&refreqid=search%3A525b1ce404bac5363b30e51c82816c54

 

Here are but a FEW of those sources directly.

Banning, E. B. “So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East.” Current Anthropology, vol. 52, no. 5, 2011, pp. 619–660. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/661207

Verhoeven, Marc. “The Birth of a Concept and the Origins of the Neolithic: A History of Prehistoric Farmers in the Near East.” Paléorient, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 75–87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41496922

Scham, Sandra. “The World's First Temple.” Archaeology, vol. 61, no. 6, 2008, pp. 22–27. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41780422

HODDER, Ian. “The Role of Religion in the Neolithic of the Middle East and Anatolia with Particular Reference to Çatalhöyük.” Paléorient, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 111–122. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41496925

Watkins, Trevor. “Building Houses, Framing Concepts, Constructing Worlds.” Paléorient, vol. 30, no. 1, 2004, pp. 5–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41496680