Gobekli Tepe

Prehistory. Literally meaning before history, the time before written records; but yet prehistory has just as many stories to tell that cannot be found in any high school textbook. These stories can be very important stories that can change how we believe humans created civilization. Standard theory suggests that humanity's progress toward civilization started in prehistory with farming. Once prehistoric humans discovered farming, they were able to settle down and get their food from farming. According to popular belief, farming that had allowed them to settle down let them form religion for which they built temples around which cities formed. But now, due to an archeological site located in Turkey, the education systems need to reconsider what kids learn. The site is named Göbekli Tepe, or pot-bellied hill, and was discovered in Turkey over …show more content…
This was a very logical theory because farms produced enough food to create a surplus, eliminating the need to look for food every day, allowing early humans to start building more permanent structures. Many hunter-gatherers at the time believed in spiritual worlds (World History). The conflict with popular belief comes with the creation of Göbekli Tepe, a giant temple in Turkey, which was dated thousands of years before popular theories suggest is possible. With the creation of the newest parts of Göbekli Tepe being dated 500 years before local agriculture developed, completely defying the popular theories. There is evidence in favor of the fact that the people who built Göbekli Tepe were most likely hunter-gatherers due to a lot of animal bones found while uncovering the temple (Curry). This means that not only does common modern teachings need to be reconsidered, but that we also are unsure of the development of civilization itself