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[Ya-ta Boy]

Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the world's oldest temple...

To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html

There are some cool photographs with the article.

[Chris_Dixon]

Really interesting, cheers for posting that.

[Manner of Speaking]

I've been interested in Archaeology since I was a kid, and I have to admit that is one of the most amazing articles I've ever read. Look at those "pillars"! It's almost unimaginable that something as elaborate as that could have been carved 11,000 years ago. My gawd, that's before the end of the last glaciation in North America. Thanks for the article!

[Bigfeet]

[blurgalurgalurga]

yeah, very cool article, thanks.