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[yakalskovich]

Those of you who've know me since before I started this blog, when we met up in Stafford in the autumn of 2003, might be interested in this new article about Göbekli Tepe, which I found via blue_cat.

It's not 'just' 9,000 years old, but 11,500.

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[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I sent that link out to Caleb earlier today. He (unlike me) has read all Andrew Collins' books and said "Oh, yes, Watchers!"

[yakalskovich]

Yep, that's their site Andrew Collins was going on about. I'll never forget that Sunday morning when I was poking and poking him until he gave us a non-alternative, alien-free line of argument that an achaeologist's daughter could live with.

Now, slowly, mainstream archaeology is starting to poke the implications with a long, sharp stick, very very suspicious of everything.

What cannot be, must not be. They'd have to rethink their theories. Ow.

**grins**

[essayel.livejournal.com]

That's uncanny! I was reading everything I could find on it yesterday afternoon after finding an article while googling for something else. Such carvings!

[yakalskovich]

It's all the more mysterious as nobody has found the development that led up to it. Of course, there has to be, in some form (which is why I kept asking so many questions from that guy Andrew Collins who first mentioned it in my presence; I'm not just content with a mystery), but we don't know it.

Of course, it's right there with the theories about agriculture having been invented for dope, not grain, originally. But humans seem predisposed towards building major cathedrals while living in abjects huts, so to speak. The oldest Peruvian culture at about half the age of Göbekli Tepe was ginormous mud brick temples far from the coast where people ate only fish and shellfish that was brought there from the sea on a long trek. Such ginormous temples, the eroded remains were thought to be mountains, or at least sizeable hills. They had the ickiest burial customs ever, too. That is to say, people as such are probably a bit weird to begin with.-