CARTA: Göbekli Tepe

[@pat8988]

The microphone distortion makes this really hard to listen to 😢.

[@johngrundowski3632]

Thanks ,great information 📚🗺

[@uctv]

Our pleasure!

[@justpyrite591]

It's funny, the actual architecture is ignored in this presentation. The size, position and extremely well fitted stone were not mentioned.

[@sja45uk]

Clearly she was not challenging those self-evident characteristics of the buildings, which appears to have been within the capability of peoples in the distant past. I would have liked to hear more about the interpretation of their form as being a presumed transition from earlier wooden and skin tent structures.

[@ZachFury]

She literally said her expertise is in landscapes, so that’s what her presentation was largely about, the landscape of Gobekli Tepe

[@Seekingsilver]

So my first instincts were correct..its a food court

[@orhanfeyzioglu]

This is another speculation on Gobeklitepe, more founded but missing many details. I wonder how she detected the routes of gazelles lived many thousand years ago? This is important because her claims mainly dependent on this assumption. As the terrain may be significantly altered during years, I think only looking to GIS data is not enough. Also describing columns only with their T-shape, and not considering astonishing carvings on them, is not very serious for me.

[@goodtohaveinajam8148]

I agree, the original site may not be a temple, but it looks like it could have been a marketplace, or meeting area. Perhaps where the people filed in, to meet dignitaries, maybe a court? I mean, here is a lady addressing an audience, delivering a presentation in a large, acoustic room. Could have been for that.

[@Horror528]

well i think the initial interpretation stems from the nature of hunter-gatherer groups and the reason or the motivatio for why they would invest so many valuable resources into such huge building. i think marketplace or a religious site are the most probable purpouses of the building as it required immense resources and especially a LOT of people. One thing that motivates people to cooperate is most definitely religion. marketplace is also interesting but i still think a temple is more str8forward

[@Cnsalmoni]

How about both? Or at least a place to sacrifice animals and then consume them…That statue of the pig was directly in front of one of the monoliths, which has a small curving groove carved in the floor just next to it’s base. Could they have sacrificed the animals or butchered them there in larger quantities after a mass hunt, then have the channel carry the blood away, so that it didn’t cover the floor? I’m not thinking that’s the only answer, but a possible one.

[@Horror528]

@@Cnsalmoniyeah thats a good one as well considering that many gods concerned with morality are related to food sharing

[@jozsefolasz8702]

You should read Peter Turchin's book, Ultrasociety.

[@lisizecha9759]

The cradle of humankind, pride of the Turks, downgraded to a hunting lodge, by a German. Nice