The Worlds Most Famous Megaliths: The History of Gbekli Tepe, Stonehenge, and the Megalithic Temples of Malta Audiobook Libro.fm

Despite the fact some Neolithic communities grew to considerable sizes theyre typically not considered when people think of the first ancient civilizations or the first major cities so when German archaeologists discovered the archaeological site of Gbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey in the 1990s it created an academic firestorm that is still raging Far from being just another settlement Gbekli Tepe has been described as the worlds first temple and perhaps one of the locations where human civilization began Subsequent archaeological work at Gbekli Tepe has revealed that the site was a spiritual center for the local population during a time when humans were undergoing a transition as huntergatherers in the Paleolithic Period to a more sedentary lifestyle in the Neolithic Period more than 10000 years ago