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@TGBurgerGaming
4 ай бұрын
It makes you wonder how long humans were building structures and using tools made with wood that just hasnt survived to tell their story or show us the beginnings of construction.
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
I'm looking forward to that. I follow both of you.
@jonkore2024
4 ай бұрын
Anatolia is on my Bucket list ... the pyramids are not on my bucket list
@glennllewellyn7369
4 ай бұрын
WOW! Really?
@harrywalker968
4 ай бұрын
if you talk like this for real, there no way im on the tour..they have to be less than 12k old, as the flood was 13k ago..
@danatowne5498
4 ай бұрын
When I was growing up (not quite during the last Ice Age, but I am 65 yrs old), we were taught that "civilization began at Sumer". Not 'maybe', or 'as far as we know', but full stop. I, for one, am just happy after all these years that alternatives to that narrative are being discussed! I think we are still shedding the horrible effects of social Darwinism, personally - which just NEVER made sense to me. Thank you for all your hard work sharing data and evidence.... really. :)
@easygroove
4 ай бұрын
"History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History" i am Sill lookin for this Book.
@efdangotu
4 ай бұрын
Funny that Bible thumpers and University profs both thought civilization began 6000 years ago.
@danatowne5498
4 ай бұрын
@@efdangotu , tbh, I don't personally know any "bible thumpers" that thought that... but I for sure don't know everybody and I do know some Seventh Day Adventist prophetess made believing that a doctrine.. Not my circus, if you know what I mean. What gets me is that, in mainstream astronomy today (I follow an astrophysicist named "Dr. Becky" - she's for real), they are "looking" past the light barrier of the early universe by BAO - Baryon (matter) Acoustic (sound) Oscillations (waves). So... sound before light? or 'God said, "Let there be light"'. I wouldn't blame anyone for not seeing a difference. Look it up if you are interested in such things. :)
@krono5el
4 ай бұрын
there's never one true anything so it seems after living a few eons : p
@danatowne5498
4 ай бұрын
@@krono5el , lol... you've lived for eons? Sell that secret! :)
@douginorlando6260
4 ай бұрын
14500 years ago this region had more rainfall than today. Also temperatures were cooler. Nobody makes their bed where it will be rained on. Roofs not only make sense, they are imperative for health and survival
@inthefade
4 ай бұрын
The notion that humans from 14000 years ago wouldn't want to or know how to build a roof is absurd. It really is a fair and obvious assumption.
@Cognaxance
3 ай бұрын
@@inthefade It's really not a stretch to conclude humans were doing such things 20, 25, or 30 thousands years ago either. Humans were just as intelligent, as we are now over 50, maybe a 100 thousand years ago. We're just missing vast swathes of history bc it's more than likely under water(the Black sea, Doggerland?), buried somewhere(the Sahara?), reused material or disintegrated.
@ronniereddix5200
2 ай бұрын
The submerged city of pyramids just off the coast of Cuba! It's a full blown city with streets, civic buildings, etc...I wonder how old it truly is?
@adude7944
2 ай бұрын
I mean even if climate was the same as now, roofs would make sense because I don't remember anyone saying "man i love when it's 50°C and the direct sun boils my brain out"
@diyanivanov4107
Ай бұрын
The old temples had no roofs so the energy can flou freely. Todays temples all have roofs because their purpose is to collect energy, like farms
@GJP1169
4 ай бұрын
Our modern arrogance about the intelligence of eary cultures is surprising. Every time modern man gets caught surprised about how advanced ancient cultures were
@mikemars5984
4 ай бұрын
explain advanced, they are just stone age people
@GJP1169
4 ай бұрын
@mikemars5984 were one step away from the Stone Age with one large EMP from the sun or nuclear war .
@tjampman
4 ай бұрын
@@GJP1169 Don't flatter yourself too much. I doubt we would be that skilled!
@frankrodriguez9697
4 ай бұрын
Reading Enoch 😊we learn.
@mikeheffernan
4 ай бұрын
Advanced, hardly, rudimentary is better. Cities would follow 1000s of years later when the human population was greater.
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
That really is fascinating. I lean in favor of roofs as well. The structure of the T pillars are structurally sound and it makes perfect sense they'd have supported something. The rock pile evidence backs it up at Wadi Hammeh, too. It's nothing short of a marvel either having such a vast area roofed like that. Especially through an ice age. Absolutely brilliant! These ancient people were so ingenuitive and creative. 🙏💓
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
They were. Far more intelligent than often portrayed.
@MikeHunt-c5p
4 ай бұрын
The first piers,girders,joists and decking. The piers survive.
@homeandalone1640
4 ай бұрын
There is just something about humanities first explorations into permanent settlement I find fascinating. I've been following your content for a while and I have to say you're just going from strength to strength with your presentations. There is so much information packed into this 20 minutes and it leaves me looking forward to further exploration the site. Glad to hear you're doing a follow up on Wadi Hammeh and it's always refreshing to hear acknowledgment of the hard work of those first pioneers of construction.
@macroplexx
4 ай бұрын
Cada vez que veo un video de este canal, me deja medio intranquilo y medio satisfecho. Es como viajar y recordar algo que antes se hizo y ver los rastros de lo que dejamos hace miles de año. Los modelos digitales ayudan bastante en configurar y comprender cómo fueron las estructuras, su función y cómo se las ingeniaron para construirlas. Gracias por el esfuerzo y su publicación. Saludos desde Tiwanaku
@davesky538
4 ай бұрын
Very Mandan Dakota! Me grand father drew the Mandan buildings once on a scrap of paper for me over 60 years ago and it looked very much like what is on the video. Today there's an assortment of videos on the Mandan structures.
@NORTH02
4 ай бұрын
That reconstruction is very interesting
@TWIXTIMA0
4 ай бұрын
Omg north02 I'm a big fan
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Kevin is a great guy! He did some amazing work if you look at his channel. Thanks for being here mate.
@efdangotu
4 ай бұрын
I feel the ancestral urge to build like that myself. That type of structure may have been able to survive the younger dryas disaster.
@JonnoPlays
4 ай бұрын
North 02 is here, it's lit! 🔥
@elliottprats1910
4 ай бұрын
What a time to be alive! It’s undeniable that the stone carved columns were protected from the weathering and outside elements to some degree. So there was definitely a roof but I will admit that it may not have completely covered the enclosure, leaving something similar to a oculus.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, the pillars - especially those at Gobekli Tepe would be far more weathered if they were exposed.
@wodenravens
4 ай бұрын
@@AncientArchitects Absolutely. I assume that any prolonged exposure to rain for limestone would lead to much more erosion over a period of centuries, let alone millennia.
@faragraf9380
3 ай бұрын
this pillars look very unstabile to hold themselves. They aren’t deep in ground and too small. What should they holding for?
@kevinfoster1138
4 ай бұрын
I've said it before and I'd like to say it again not only is your work greatly appreciated but the fact you will change your mind/opinion when new facts/findings come to light. Thank you for all your hard work!
@SandyRegion
4 ай бұрын
We need to put more money into investigating the areas of land that have been submerged since the last ice age. Hopefully new technology will make this more achievable.
@briangodfrey7424
3 ай бұрын
Yes! When you consider that most of humanity lives near the oceans it seems likely that was always the case. And the ice age coastlines are all way under water now.
@Atlas2040
Ай бұрын
Yes
@UkuleleBobbyKemp
4 ай бұрын
Lovely stuff Matt, and I agree re: the 'T-shaped Pillars to support a roof' theory... I'm not a big fan of (most) of these ever-increasing alignment hypothesis - and reckon a good 80%+ of them are seriously 'reaching'... Great work as ever mate... 🙏
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Cheers mate
@taseenrahman1553
4 ай бұрын
Nice! I’d love to see a shift in focus to Aurignacian Migrations into the Levant, Ohalo 2, the evolution of Keberan and Natufian cultures!! I think any amateur can see that this Natufian culture (or atleast ancestors) helped build Gobekli Tepe and maybe all of society!
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
I have a script part done on the Keberan culture. A huge problem with making videos on Natufians / Keberans etc is the lack of images. Might be a better essay than video. I’ll try and speak to archaeologists for imagery.
@Niaaal
4 ай бұрын
@@AncientArchitectsMaybe you can try Artificial Intelligence images?
@dnocturn84
4 ай бұрын
Great video! These sites look like ancient winter quarters for late period hunter & gatherers to me. A place where a tribe rested during the winter, stored their resources and defended themselves and their stuff against rivals, dangers and weather. I don't see real evidence for astronomy (like you pointed out with a sharp mind) or a heavy focus on religion. All of this seems more practical in nature.
@DinsDale-tx4br
4 ай бұрын
3:30 I had wondered if folk might object to the 'roofing' idea and prefer an the 'observatory'' idea to explain them but let's be honest - would they really have needed so many observatories? 16:35 central and right hand pieces slot together and you can see a slight arc in the quadracentric designs. Continue the curve through a missing piece to the left hand piece. I wonder if they found other bits? 17:18 Echinoids are fossilised Sea Urchins, I didn't know that they had those there. 17:45 A Person at Gobekli Tepe once said to a friend, about the Natufians, 'They were 3,000 years ago but the were just like us, just as clever'.
@Dankness-e6i
19 күн бұрын
You miss something important. The reason they didn't build on the tip of the mountain is because the horizon creates a haze that blocks sunrise and moonrise from view. Like for eg Newgrange in Ireland is aligned to the solstice and sunrise, but over Red Mountain where the sun is already above the horizon for 15 minutes. So that they get a perfect experience with no haze in the view.
@jonkore2024
4 ай бұрын
Where are the new history books
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
All online! 😀
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
Most of these things are not covered in high school texts, there might be a brief mention of Gobekli Tepe or something but the majority is only going to be available in college, if you're an anthropology student. In that case, they do have base text books but there's always addendums and links for current information because our information is constantly being updated. They'd have to print new texts all the time if they tried putting every new thing in a text book. (I'm an anthropology student.)
@karleemiles2988
4 ай бұрын
@@WildAlchemicalSpirit but they do that anyway. It really is time to update all way to schools.
@efdangotu
4 ай бұрын
Right here baby!
@liamredmill9134
4 ай бұрын
You are the history book
@veron06lev06
4 ай бұрын
You should have a look at the Natufian site of El Wad (in the Carmel region) in Israel.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Will do - cheers!
@Robert_McGarry_Poems
4 ай бұрын
You mean Palestine. But humanity forgives you.
@Italliving
4 ай бұрын
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems you mean EARTH but the universe does not care
@Robert_McGarry_Poems
4 ай бұрын
@@Italliving Even better... 🍻
@Italliving
4 ай бұрын
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems the only border i see is the end of our atmosphère
@stevebrooks1355
4 ай бұрын
When you look at the stone carved columns-- who would conclude 'there was no roof' -- 😮 of course there was a roof
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Still not everyone thinks they were, I guess because they need it to be open for their astronomical hypotheses.
@ironcladranchandforge7292
4 ай бұрын
When I had first seen pictures of this site, the only thing that came to mind was structural roof support. Also, considering the stone carvings on the pillars as decoration, they were a wealthy tribe. Why take the time and effort otherwise?
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
The way it rolls is that there MUST be confirmed evidence of roofs in order for the scientific record to reflect this. Until then, any idea is fair game and everything should be considered so as to not allow any bias to sway the interpretation. Once it's shown there was definitively a material for roofs or something that we can confirm was a roof, only then it will be admitted into the records.
@ironcladranchandforge7292
4 ай бұрын
@@WildAlchemicalSpirit -- Understandable, but common sense dictates that people would want a roof to protect themselves from the elements. Also, archeologists are always calling an ancient structure a shrine or spiritual place without evidence, or their interpretation of the scant evidence.
@stevebrooks1355
4 ай бұрын
@@WildAlchemicalSpirit well ---I don't roll that way--😁
@johnswindale9115
4 ай бұрын
Once again many thanks for the information in this video. How things have changed since my school days. If I was younger and fitter I would to join you on your trip.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thanks 🙏 I’m not young or fit - wish me luck 😂
@karleemiles2988
4 ай бұрын
We get front row seats here. 🎉 But I would go if could afford it.
@nobody687
3 ай бұрын
People back then were not stupid. Of course they built a roof. When you understand that stone age People may not have the tech we do, they were just as smart as us
@RonHudgens-ck5qe
2 ай бұрын
Stone Age ,no .. Stone was used for security,,at the time of their age saber tooths,, wooly mammoths,,,wooly rhinos and like Animal's were still alive.. SECURITY... ARCHAEOLOGIST UNFORTUNATELY DON'T LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX... INSTEAD THEY HAVE A VERY NARROW STRAIGHT AHEAD THINKING... AFTER ALL THEY CAN'T EXPLAIN THE LONDON HAMMER, THE LARGE ALUMINUM OBJECT THAT WAS FOUND NEXT TO MAMMOTH BONES 30 OR MORE FEET BELOW GROUND LEVEL.. TESON THAT SHOWED IT WAS SOME 90 PLUS PERCENT PURE... AND MANKIND TODAY CAN NOT MAKE THAT TODAY.
@jameldickerson3259
4 ай бұрын
Great video. Keep em coming
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@waxwars9183
2 ай бұрын
Any resistance to the older sites is due to the conflict with religious doctrine. They’ve conditioned everyone with a certain story and these sites mess up the story.
@jonforuria
4 ай бұрын
Great channel. Congratulations.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@dlmullins9054
17 күн бұрын
Your theories make more sense to me than just saying Karahan Tepe suddenly burst out of nothing. Thank you.
@isutrikanda
4 ай бұрын
It's the right time to phone Hancock to tell him you found Atlantis and ask him if he liked and subscribed.
@UATU.
4 ай бұрын
Do archeologists know what their sources of water were?
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Wadi Hammeh was surrounded by natural springs
@UATU.
4 ай бұрын
@@AncientArchitects Thank you!
@harrywalker968
4 ай бұрын
12k ago, the flood was still receading. so, theres your water.. archeologists, scientists, are paid to recite known knowledge, or they get de granted, no pay.. tow the line.. or else. religion, was taken from a book of our history, before all this, then parts selected, to form religion, & hide the truth..
@globetrottingnanna
2 ай бұрын
At Karahan Tepe there is a deep hole that has been dug out of the bedrock with "channels" running into it that looks like it may have been a cistern for collecting water. It even has shallow channels leading from the ridge above the settlement into the cistern. There is also another hole that was full of water when I was there.
@Demane69
4 ай бұрын
I'd love to layer over these timelines in this region with climate model information. Settlements appear to require environmental stability to move toward more advanced cultivation, eventual husbandry, and urbanization. Many factors contribute to cultural success (and these regions are a crossroad between continents) but this area clearly had it's advantages over others.
@Air-bear
4 ай бұрын
Gadfly here 🤫. Archeology is trying to work with a linear approach to our past. As if there is always a progressive movement forward in technology and culture. Life on earth is too dynamic for such a simple concept. We see a rollercoaster journey in our past. Civilizations rise and fall. We just start over with what knowledge is left and (more important) practical for us to survive. 🥶😶🌫️
@rrickard2874
4 ай бұрын
6:15 Well done, pronouncing all those sites so cleanly!
@claudermiller
18 күн бұрын
At sunrise on the winter solstice, the sun peeks through my window and appears between my feet directly in line with my morning wood. It's amazing.
@michaelfleming4015
9 күн бұрын
With these hunter gatherer ceremonial structures we are getting very close to a time when people would have had oral traditions of a time when the northern end of the Persian Gulf was dry. This is amazing!
@paulroberts7429
4 ай бұрын
They have now discovered Terra preta at Gobeki tepe which is good, we have repositioning of pillars at gobeki tepe there is to much emphasize on pillar detail to be covered, maybe later on, cheers Matt.
@ryandavis4448
4 ай бұрын
They absolutely used the stones as framework for a roofing system. More than likely a fairly stable one, or they wouldn't have known where and how to place them.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
👍
@PRH123
4 ай бұрын
That's what I think also when looking at Stonehenge. Rafters laid radially over the stone pillars would make a perfect cone shaped roof.
@billcook7285
4 ай бұрын
I always thought KT might be like a Neolithic School. But the more sites they find, the less I believe it. It seems, the more they dig, the larger the population gets. And the smarter the hunter-gatherers become.
@Nanocology
4 ай бұрын
Agreed. I think the advance of our technology will be a boon, hopefully to discovering more sites like this...
@patriciabush4590
4 ай бұрын
Humans have been around for over 300,000 yrs at least. Of course they had talents to survive.
@damarisrojas474
Ай бұрын
Nobody existed in that ancient time, it's ridiculous
@petervermeer.4904
26 күн бұрын
@@damarisrojas474 ..100.000 years ago, people lived in Spain, in Israel, Germany, Russia, Kaukasus. Most likely also in China/Asia. And of course Africa. In Africa already 200-300-400 thousand years ago.
@TGBurgerGaming
4 ай бұрын
You can almost see them all sitting in AD.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Yeah. I can imagine it in use!
@Robert_McGarry_Poems
4 ай бұрын
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandad was there... 😂
@ironcladranchandforge7292
4 ай бұрын
While advancement probably happened gradually over thousands of years, I believe it could happen rapidly as well. All it would take is a motivated leader with an high IQ and a sense for how things work. A lot would depend on living conditions, climate, and food availability. But life was obviously going fairly well to enable people to build these structures. Great video, thanks!!
@mrbaab5932
4 ай бұрын
Climate change is the Mother of Invention.
@harrywalker968
4 ай бұрын
watch. viper tv sumerian tablets.. get educated.. so you can recognise bs...
@tikitiki7610
4 ай бұрын
wow!!! thank you
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thanks
@johngalt97
4 ай бұрын
These places existed over so many generations, that I'm inclined to give them a 'Life of Brian' interpretation.
@utubeape
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant video. Yes it is obvious the pilars are roof supports, you can easily see how this T would be designed to be wider at the top to support many beams, but narrow at the living area for more floor space and ease of contruction. Maybe any star alignment is by design too, in terms of 'as above so below' Possibly the ancient people were insipred by the dome roof they saw above them. People are building bushcraft 'dugouts' nowadays on their own with no training or heritage, just getting on with it with simple tools.
@eliseintheattic9697
2 ай бұрын
That was my thought as well. It may not be either an alignment or a roof support, but both. Alignment doesn't always mean an observatory, but can simply be a belief in the providence and power of aligning buildings to the current dominant constellation (or god). It's also possible that there was a belief in "dragon paths" or something similar that dictated the orientation of buildings.
@utubeape
2 ай бұрын
@@eliseintheattic9697 like "as above , so below" to try to gain favor and pay respect to the higher power.. That is what I meant saying they were inspired by the dome they saw above them
@barrywalser2384
4 ай бұрын
Always loaded with detailed information. Great stuff! Thanks Matt!
@harrywalker968
4 ай бұрын
modern detail, explains nothing. just mainstream crap..go back 200,000 yrs, you might learn something.. real..
@loke6664
4 ай бұрын
The cave dwelling people stereotype is a bit dubious. Caves tend to preserve things far better then outdoors and are generally easier to find for archaeologists too. The oldest known wooden structure is a platform 476 000 years old but that one was a really lucky find since wood very rarely get preserved. We really don't know when people started to build houses out of wood, thatch and skins. The intelligence to do so was certainly there long before Homo Sapiens even existed. And even if people liked not having to build a structure and set up their camp in a natural cave, there are hardly caves everywhere and hunter gatherers usually were forced to move around. What is interesting about the Natufians is that they started to use stone and they also often lived in scarcely populated areas since so their ruins are left but one can wonder how many people actually built similar structures out of wood at other places, maybe far earlier.. The problem of courser is that we need to be super lucky for something like that to be preserved, something like a volcanic eruption or similar disaster. That means the Natufians are the oldest village builders we actually can study at the moment. I am not sure why they decided to use so much stone but it is something we should be greatful about.
@juliam248
4 ай бұрын
I totally agree. The existence of the Shigur Idol from Siberia may be a clue that before people worked stone, they worked wood, and who knows how far back that could've gone. For all we know, the stone figures and pillars at Gobekli Tepe had elaborately carved wooden ancestors. As to why people started to work and build with stone, I think it's due to the material availability and climate change. Less trees - gotta find something else.
@loke6664
4 ай бұрын
@@juliam248 That is a likely theory, if large trees are rare it suddenly is less work to use the stones you have in place but there are other reasons why people build out of stones too. The "lack of wood" hypothesis did happen in Orkney so it is certainly plausible. Skara Brae was built in stone for that reason. There might also be environmental reasons (rain, temperature and other things like that, wood and stone are different materials), religious reasons or people might have wanted their buildings to survive longer. I do agree with you, it is likely there was a lack of wood, an environmental study should be able to prove or disprove that.
@oraclehaveacookie9737
4 ай бұрын
Venezuelan indigenous people live in "churuatas". They are huge circular or almost circular dwellings made of wood. They have a roof, each family has its space but there are no separation inside the building. They live, cook... together as a tribe. Near the centre of the construction they made ceremonies or near the entrance of it.
@carriekelly4186
4 ай бұрын
Nicely done. Thank you for including the other tas tepeler sites which show the bigger picture over time,that we had been working stone and then would which hasnt survived for a very long time through the stone age so sites like Gobekli tepe did not just appear overnight. Well done. Thank you.
@glennllewellyn7369
4 ай бұрын
Notice they built in the lee of a hill. Higher up the hill and the wind would suck the roof off. LOL, how many flying roofs did the have before moving into the Lee of the hill?
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
They’re just intelligent people. They knew how and where to plan a settlement
@davehogg63
4 ай бұрын
I agree that roofs make absolute sense considering how they are arranged, observations can be made close by.
@chilledwalrus
4 ай бұрын
Here's a little context on the Natufian culture, which was not always known as "Natufian", but originally as "Flufian". Around 1850 much was being ascribed to the Flufians, incorrectly. This was corrected through the phrase "Not Flufian", which was shortened to Natufian.
@braddbradd5671
4 ай бұрын
The artist impression of Gobleki Tepe and the real thing it looks like the house all face trds the special place, and seeing as the people of the houses spent all there time on the roofs looking out, and seeing as the monuments are under ground it makes sense that it would make great viewing of a ceremony or dance were people who lived there can see what happening inside from above like a theater, so i dont think Gobleki Tepe had a roof
@TheAzachiel
3 ай бұрын
They were not observatories, I can agree, however they record past events in time and space as they were important. Those people just survived major cataclysmic event or events and this us the way they choose to record it. And just because we like them better with the roof, it doesn't mean they had it. Fact is: We dont know.
@evrenselfrekans
4 ай бұрын
Göbeklitepe is a fascinating masterpiece
@ludwigvanbeethoven61
4 ай бұрын
6:45 that would indeed challenge everything what mainstream archaeologist would claim.
@dudedabsworth8023
4 ай бұрын
I don’t think anyone that has ever built a building thinks they didn’t have roofs on these places. The pillars look for sure to be roof supports and structural in nature. Quite obviously. IMO.
@macrolplayer
24 күн бұрын
Always very interesting updates about the last discoveries of the first prepottery and organized human settlement. Thanks for sharing all these well edited products of your hard work.
@paulgilbert1939
4 ай бұрын
Brilliant video, Thanks for the work
@user-bz7wl1fg4l
4 ай бұрын
Best of the best! Thank you very much!
@m.pearce3273
4 ай бұрын
A fascinating review of these newer found much more ancient people's dwellings and meeting places. I find it slightly unfathomable that they had clothing and foot wear langage and culture that does not preserve in stone
@mrhassell
2 ай бұрын
A "wadi", is a seasonal stream, and it has been interpreted as an seasonal aggregation camp. The massive stones at Göbekli Tepe, were not intended as roof supports and here’s why: Carved from natural limestone strata, the pillars at Göbekli Tepe have been preserved for millennia. These stone circles were not meant to support roofs but to stand as monumental structures. The horizontal layers of limestone simplified the task for ancient builders to shape the pillars by removing material from the sides rather than the base. The stone circles at Göbekli Tepe served ceremonial or religious functions. The towering pillars, embellished with intricate carvings, held symbolic significance, and their arrangement suggests a purposeful design beyond mere practicality for shelter. This is exemplified by "The Vulture Stone," a relief on the west side of Pillar 43 in Enclosure D, which shows vultures surrounding a headless human figure, symbolizing death and the afterlife. The carvings on this pillar are believed to represent a comet swarm striking Earth around 10,890 BC, coinciding with the onset of the Younger Dryas period, a "Mini Ice Age" that lasted for a millennium, beginning in 10,890 BCE. These carvings, created after the Younger Dryas, were intended as a message and a warning to future generations, indicating not only what to observe but also where to look in the sky.
@RedSkysAreOnFire
4 ай бұрын
they dont need a hole in the roof to let the smoke out, the smoke would seep between the roof weave killing all the bugs off. also a hole would let out all the heat which is something you don't want.
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
They may have had heat coming from in ground anyways, like central heating. The main furnace area being outside to allow the smoke to blow off, with the heat being drawn into the structures. Some of the areas of these structures look like just that could have been going on. I've heard the concept of central heating and cooling actually dates back to ancient times, too. This is something I'll be looking into more. You're right though, if the roof was high enough and the air flow proper within the structures, it may not have been an issue having it gather in the ceiling. Maybe helped to keep it dry. 🤔
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info
@lv2draw1
2 ай бұрын
Also, having a closed roof means the smoke kills any embers before they catch the thatch alight. So your roof is less likely to burn down.
@okshadowbannedjet7981
3 ай бұрын
it just reminded me of how Samson brought the whole temple down by striking two central pillars...
@clark9992
4 ай бұрын
The mortar and pestle at top right at 20:02 looks almost identical to the one in my kitchen. Incredible.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
They are beautiful. I might make a video on just Natufian artefacts.
@gonzagarte4214
3 ай бұрын
Did you notice the Fibonacci Sequence in all sites about 15.000 years? It is not a coincidence. They visit the Earth and They had mastery of disintegrating rocks and also neutralizing gravity.
@stewiesaidthat
3 ай бұрын
Neutralizing Gravity? That's some engineering feat. They would have litterally stop the sun from shining as it comprises 98.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. Pulling everything towards it. I bet they did all the heavy lifting during the solar eclipses when the sun disappears from the sky and they only have to go against the mass of the earth. The moon is lifting up the oceans, maybe the structures were built during a full moon. There is talk of a planet X. Maybe it's orbit was closer back then, canceling put some of the sun's gravitational pull. Neutralize gravity. Yep. That's the ticket. The moon and planet X and a solar eclipse.
@charlesblithfield6182
4 ай бұрын
Kevin’s visualization is extremely impressive and I imagine very useful in the analysis of these structures.
@66block84
4 ай бұрын
Is there any evidence of latrines?
@billcook7285
4 ай бұрын
That's a damn good question. 🤔 It may have rained a lot.
@WildAlchemicalSpirit
4 ай бұрын
There is a very strong chance they were burning any and all waste they could get. If they lived through an ice age, gathering wood may not have been easy and using wood may have been primarily for building, maybe some being burned for cooking, but a good chance people used their own waste for heating. Just a thought anyway.
@66block84
4 ай бұрын
@@WildAlchemicalSpirit That makes much sense, thanks.
@karleemiles2988
4 ай бұрын
That would go in the furnace, and the animal dung. Ashes to ashes.
@petervermeer.4904
26 күн бұрын
The "solid" stuff they used it on the roofs probably.
@Tony_TheAncientWorldReimagined
4 ай бұрын
The Natufians are the Key to Turkey Megaliths, Please check on Shubayqa 1 dates back close to 14.600 years ago. Not only evidence of sedentary but it’s the earliest evidence of bread being baked, imagine that 14,600 years ago, That must mean they were doing alot with grains cultivating.
@iancoles1349
2 ай бұрын
12500 years ago the world changed this is what came out of it.Before magical
@michaeln.3491
4 ай бұрын
Read "Prehistory Decoded" by Martin Sweatman. He opens up a dialogue about the constellations depicted as a timeline for when a comet airburst happened, that we already know about that wiped out a lot of Europe, Africa, and a lot of the Americas. It's quite fascinating. My take is that Gobekli Tepe is a monument to pinpoint that time and describe what happened for future generations. Read that book please. It's opens up a lot of new dialogue on the subject. And it's a really good and easy read.
@kevinfoster1138
4 ай бұрын
I tell you what, there's definitely one question about Gobekli Tepe that this video has answered. Q: where did all the people come from to build this? A: All around look at all the settlements that have been found not to mention the ones that haven't. Thank you again I love your videos!
@mammoamare5774
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your great work. Opinion: Every civilization uses what was already achieved as a steppingstone to the next level. Each one of them has gotten us to where we are. It’s our responsibility to add to it and pass it on to the generations that follow. Humans did it, preserved and left it to us. Their work and their words, those that we can figure out , are testament to their achievements. “Mari of Alphalang. “
@kilroy-cc8
4 ай бұрын
Do you think that there was a roof over Stonehenge? What are those carved points on top of the stone pillars at Stonehenge used for?
@user-io9ie5cs8j
4 ай бұрын
This is a well done video, and the archeologist gave you info. Of course we didn't jump from roamers to pottery in a couple undiscovered decades! At the ice age. Thank you-
@suzankohlik6827
3 ай бұрын
Very informative! Thank you for your videos!
@mariocerin4105
2 ай бұрын
The real Question is: When did we become what we are today. Let's say by about 300 000. If we were intellectually as capable then, it means there is a lot of time to exercise that brain power in the development of language and civilisation. Somewhere in that period there could well have developed a very advanced civilisation.
@doncarlodivargas5497
Ай бұрын
Was it not an ice age? Perhaps we where not so intelligent, but the challenges in surviving during an ice age selected on intelligence, so what we see ~15.000 years old are made by the best of the best humans, surviving difficult times
@ulrichkristensen4087
12 күн бұрын
@@doncarlodivargas5497We are still in the ice age
@ulrichkristensen4087
12 күн бұрын
No evidence for it
@charleskelly1887
4 ай бұрын
I believe these structures may have been processing centers for the "harvest" from the millions of grazing animals who migrated past these sites.
@karleemiles2988
4 ай бұрын
And also astrological connections patterns designated as dot to dot, star to star patterns from their location. Natural springs? Awesome info 🎉
@homeandalone1640
4 ай бұрын
Not a bad thought. Could have been ancient food stores with set down keeping things cooler and the scary animal motif intended to scare off the bad things that make the food spoil.
@craigfrench1193
4 ай бұрын
Solid work. I've thought for some time that there must have been an extensive lead up to the Tepe sites and you've just pointed it out to me. Thanks.
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thanks - there are even more sites - dozens and dozens. I’ll keep making more vids.
@GonzaloCalvoPerez
4 ай бұрын
I proposed a few years ago that the roof of the enclosures had to be made out of wool. This applies also to the taulas of Menorca, the only sites comparable to pre-pottery neolithic sites of Turkey, a parallelism that was pointed out, but precipitedly discarded, by late Klaus Schmidt.
@dennismacwilliams196
4 ай бұрын
So cool cant wate to see some sites going back even further
@nvmcstitch
4 ай бұрын
Okay so now I have more questions than answers. Great video! Would love an expedition out there. Anyone who goes is lucky.
@harrywalker968
4 ай бұрын
there will allways be questions, because they wont tell you the truth.. fact... viper tv sumerian tablets.. the facts by how to hunt.. praveen mohan.. nystery histery.. the observation lounge.. early, everything inside me.. . . have fun..
@LindaLinda80Linda
6 күн бұрын
There is a theory it began with BEER! Once beer was stumbled upon people wanted more of it. That meant you needed a good crop of barley or whatever they grew then. Praying for a good harvest to make beer required a place to pray, make and store beer. Hence, temples with settlements growing up around them.
@christopherbyrne8611
4 ай бұрын
Another superb video! Factual and based on core research - thank-you. You've made me think about the development of human social groups. How did homo sapiens deal with the younger dryas? Mentally as well as the physical challenges of their climate change. I presume they think like we do today? Language? Other homo species? What was the communication between the various social groups as they transitioned into these pre-pottery sites? And so on!
@426john
4 ай бұрын
I have no words , just Wow !! , thanks for your hard work .
@visi7013
4 ай бұрын
Awesome as Always! Cheers
@stevecurl7430
4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@scottzema3103
2 ай бұрын
Great video and very informative. Shows the gradual but steady development of settled life right the way from the Pleistocene through the Neolithic and into the Bronze Age. No dramatic parachuting of Atlanteans from the sky into the Middle East, armed with the plans for civilization and shoving these into the the hands of puzzled apelike hunters who were most interested in chasing squirrels. I value the idea you presented that the builders of these structurers were more interested in practical pursuits than in expressing abstract astronomical principles, an idea that you can carry right way into the Age of Pyramids in Egypt where numerous scholars are interested in a completely abstracted and mathematically based program for designing the pyramids to an excessive degree without seeing the architectural and engineering necessities that drove design decisions, not necessarily the position of Orion and the North Star. SZ BA MA Art History and Architecture
@MrHichammohsen1
4 ай бұрын
4:00 the sloped and stepped enclosures look like a rain water treatment facility. Maybe the town was built around that!
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Interesting idea
@tgunersel
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much :) Most exciting :)
@taurielnightblade7200
4 ай бұрын
The pillars are supporters for holding a roof we can see in most of them small holes similar lego blocks to match with another block, as most of the similar cultures from the same period in prehistoric places : flatted stones, adding logs, fur , clay and branches from the local plants or trees. these are very similar in bulit to the ones we know Celtic castro Homes or similar to the Balearic Talayots Homes, but never been in open air alone. then you have sililar in the biggest burial muds or dolmens such as Antequera, Spain.
@Krackonis
2 ай бұрын
Those are really good depictions of the activity above the north pole.
@michaelfleming4015
9 күн бұрын
I agree that the pillars are roof support. In that part of the world one of the most valuable things that people would seek out is shade. Building a roof as part of your worship environment is obvious.
@loisrossi841
2 ай бұрын
So amazing,thank you.
@jamesdearman814
4 ай бұрын
thought provoking presentation.
@meaninthemirror
2 ай бұрын
Roofs possibly were on the same level of the ground. Instead of hunting animals in wild (which might be very dangerous), they possibly used these underground buildings as trap for wild animals and sheltering for themselves as well separately.
@guilhermemauricio4858
12 күн бұрын
Good Job! Interesting to see that after 15.000 years BC, praticaly nothing remains...Imagining here if there was some civilization at 100.000 years ago...Something would remain or traces?! Probably not...
@susytomable
4 ай бұрын
Thank you
@AncientArchitects
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching
@udorechner6846
4 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. i think for a roof made from wooden beams amd hay the center pillars seems to be way oversized. But awesome reconstraction images.
@joshuacalderon5148
4 ай бұрын
Excellent and very informative. Thank you keep up the great work 🙏
@dai701
2 ай бұрын
I realize Wadi Hammeh should be pre-pottery, but the cups and bowls shown in your photos look pretty advanced for stone artifacts. I know they've dated some Odai Yamamoto Japanese pottery to 14,500 BC...so just double checking.
@az-wr1lb
Ай бұрын
stone pillars were typically used for temples, and these have typical refined characteristics. This is a repeating pattern throughout human history, places of worship were often the most expressive example of a region's architectural capabilities. however the central pillars are raised instead of level with the outer pillars which is a strange architectural decision since temples typically had flat roofs
@Look4History_1
4 ай бұрын
Both sites where designed to support a VERY strong roof. The large T shaped pillars were VERY strong roof supports. These are ancient bunkers! To hide inside when the weather was far more brutal & catastrophic then in our current time.
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