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 Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:17 am |
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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#Interpretation_and_Importance
"First came the temple, then the city".
--- Klaus Schmidt
"Such scholars suggest that the Neolithic
revolution, i.e. the beginnings of grain cultivation,
took place here. Schmidt and others believe
that mobile groups in the area were forced to
cooperate with each other to protect early
concentrations of wild cereals from wild
animals (herds of gazelles and wild donkeys).
This would have led to an early social
organization of various groups in the area of
Göbekli Tepe. Thus, according to Schmidt, the
Neolithic did not begin at a small scale in the
form of individual instances of garden cultivation,
but started immediately as a large scale social
organisation ('a full-scale revolution'[3])."
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David Christainsen |
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