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.-