Gee, all this around Harran plateau (Anatolia) is a massive thing. This gets attention, but still not the attention it deserves.
Only 5 % is excavated. At this tempo, the whole thing will be excavated
5,000 year from now.
Gee, all this around Harran plateau (Anatolia) is a massive thing.
This gets attention, but still not the attention it deserves. Only 5 %
is excavated. At this tempo, the whole thing will be excavated 5,000
year from now.
On 7.11.2021. 22:36, I Envy JTEM wrote:
Mario Petrinovic wrote:
Gee, all this around Harran plateau (Anatolia) is a massive thing.
This gets attention, but still not the attention it deserves. Only 5 %
is excavated. At this tempo, the whole thing will be excavated 5,000
year from now.
It's been talked here, mostly brought up by trolls, but the fact is there
isn't much we can say. There's endless speculating on what it was,
temples or something else, and I personally don't think (in that
context) it was any one thing.
To me it looks like it was spawned by a proto agriculture people. They
were probably migrating with the seasons, maybe herding animals,
and harvested the wild grains in the region seasonally.
In another thread, speaking about the levant, I cited a documentary
claiming that, harvesting such grains, one person could collect
enough to feed FOUR for an entire year in only a matter of weeks...
So they needed someplace to store that excess.
Enterm: Gobekli Tepe!
And they probably needed to protect it from everything from vermin,
spoilage to thieves so I couldn't imagine them NOT including a
religious element...
And from our point of view it was all built practically at once, but for
all we know they had forgotten why they were even doing it. Maybe
by the end there they just knew it was something that their ancestors
did, and they had to do it OR ELSE...
Or maybe if a storage facility was pronounced "Unclean" for some
reason they had to build a new one. Or they just built new ones
periodically. I dunno.
But that's my 2 cents, my working theory: They are the product of
a proto agricultural society & fulfilled the need for storage of the
excess grain.
Want to take this further? It was for their animals. But that's
deliberately wandering out on the speculation limb...
Ok, thanks. I don't know that much about it, but if you take a
look at Harran plateau, it is obvious that this is agricultural. It
simply screams "agricultural".
Mario Petrinovic wrote:
Gee, all this around Harran plateau (Anatolia) is a massive thing.
This gets attention, but still not the attention it deserves. Only 5 %
is excavated. At this tempo, the whole thing will be excavated 5,000
year from now.
It's been talked here, mostly brought up by trolls, but the fact is there isn't much we can say. There's endless speculating on what it was,
temples or something else, and I personally don't think (in that
context) it was any one thing.
To me it looks like it was spawned by a proto agriculture people. They
were probably migrating with the seasons, maybe herding animals,
and harvested the wild grains in the region seasonally.
In another thread, speaking about the levant, I cited a documentary
claiming that, harvesting such grains, one person could collect
enough to feed FOUR for an entire year in only a matter of weeks...
So they needed someplace to store that excess.
Enterm: Gobekli Tepe!
And they probably needed to protect it from everything from vermin,
spoilage to thieves so I couldn't imagine them NOT including a
religious element...
And from our point of view it was all built practically at once, but for
all we know they had forgotten why they were even doing it. Maybe
by the end there they just knew it was something that their ancestors
did, and they had to do it OR ELSE...
Or maybe if a storage facility was pronounced "Unclean" for some
reason they had to build a new one. Or they just built new ones
periodically. I dunno.
But that's my 2 cents, my working theory: They are the product of
a proto agricultural society & fulfilled the need for storage of the
excess grain.
Want to take this further? It was for their animals. But that's
deliberately wandering out on the speculation limb...
On 7.11.2021. 22:36, I Envy JTEM wrote:
Mario Petrinovic wrote:
Gee, all this around Harran plateau (Anatolia) is a massive thing.
This gets attention, but still not the attention it deserves. Only 5 %
is excavated. At this tempo, the whole thing will be excavated 5,000
year from now.
It's been talked here, mostly brought up by trolls, but the fact is there
isn't much we can say. There's endless speculating on what it was,
temples or something else, and I personally don't think (in that
context) it was any one thing.
To me it looks like it was spawned by a proto agriculture people. They
were probably migrating with the seasons, maybe herding animals,
and harvested the wild grains in the region seasonally.
In another thread, speaking about the levant, I cited a documentary
claiming that, harvesting such grains, one person could collect
enough to feed FOUR for an entire year in only a matter of weeks...
So they needed someplace to store that excess.
Enterm: Gobekli Tepe!
And they probably needed to protect it from everything from vermin,
spoilage to thieves so I couldn't imagine them NOT including a
religious element...
And from our point of view it was all built practically at once, but for
all we know they had forgotten why they were even doing it. Maybe
by the end there they just knew it was something that their ancestors
did, and they had to do it OR ELSE...
Or maybe if a storage facility was pronounced "Unclean" for some
reason they had to build a new one. Or they just built new ones
periodically. I dunno.
But that's my 2 cents, my working theory: They are the product of
a proto agricultural society & fulfilled the need for storage of the
excess grain.
Want to take this further? It was for their animals. But that's
deliberately wandering out on the speculation limb...
Ok, thanks. I don't know that much about it, but if you take a
look at Harran plateau, it is obvious that this is agricultural. It
simply screams "agricultural".
Ok, thanks. I don't know that much about it, but if you take a look at
Harran plateau, it is obvious that this is agricultural. It simply
screams "agricultural".
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