Göbekli Tepe: Recasting the origins of human culture
It may not have been farming that brought the first people together into proto-cities says archeologist Klaus Schmidt. The first “big thing” may have been…
“Religion now appears so early in civilized life—earlier than civilized life, if Schmidt is correct—that some think it may be less a product of culture than a cause of it, less a revelation than a genetic inheritance. The archeologist Jacques Cauvin once posited that ‘the beginning of the gods was the beginning of agriculture,’ and Göbekli may prove his case.”
gobelki tepe | bshears March 4, 2010 | 
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