Göbekli Tepe – The first 20 Years of Research – Tepe Telegrams
This is essential historical context for the archaeology of Göbekli Tepe. It was not the first site at which early T-shaped monoliths were identified over 30 years ago.
#AncientApocalypse dainst.blog/the-tepe-teleg…
This is essential historical context for the archaeology of Göbekli Tepe. It was not the first site at which early T-shaped monoliths were identified over 30 years ago.
#AncientApocalypse dainst.blog/the-tepe-teleg…
“In 1994 [Klaus Schmidt] visited all Neolithic sites mentioned in the literature. Drawing on the experience gained at Nevalı Çori, Schmidt was able to identify the ‘tombstones’ at Göbekli Tepe as Neolithic work-pieces and T-shaped pillars.”
Klaus Schmidt’s “Aha!” moment in the discovery of Göbekli Tepe in 1994:
“One of those heaps held a particularly large boulder. It was clearly worked and had a form that was easily recognizable: it was the T-shaped head of a pillar of the Nevalı Çori type…”.
“One of those heaps held a particularly large boulder. It was clearly worked and had a form that was easily recognizable: it was the T-shaped head of a pillar of the Nevalı Çori type…”.
That site would be Nevali Çori, which had some early T-shaped monoliths, helping Klaus Schmidt to identify the form when he found it at Göbekli Tepe.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neval%C4%…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neval%C4%…
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