About chapter 118 and Göbekli Tepe
I’ve just posted chapter 118 of my ongoing novel We’re Fucked. Those of you who are fans of prehistory may have caught on to the fact that Leire stepped into one of the enclosures at Göbekli Tepe (technically, a mix of Göbekli Tepe and its sister site Karahan Tepe). I get the feeling that most people remain unaware of this ancient culture that was building fascinating stuff at the end of the Ice Age, and possibly during.
Göbekli Tepe is located in Anatolia, modern day eastern Turkey, and was unearthed in the nineties, but its significance wasn’t understood until later. They were able to carbon date the enclosures: they had been buried for ten thousand years, and therefore uncontaminated. The complex, only five percent of which has been unearthed (we know through ground-penetrating radar that the rest exists), had been in use for about a thousand five hundred years. 11,500 years ago points to the end of the Younger Dryas, the extremely anomalous climatic period that ended the Ice Age. It’s also, incidentally, the date that Plato set for the sinking of Atlantis, based on what Egyptian priests told to a Greek lawmaker and ancestor of Plato’s.
The Younger Dryas, that lasted from 12,800 years ago to 11,600, if I remember correctly, was the most deadly period of extinctions in the last six million years; about 65 percent of all animal species bigger than a goat went extinct. The global sea levels also rose about 120 meters.
An at least 11,500-year-old man-made complex, as it’s the case of Göbekli Tepe, was particularly troublesome because it looks like this:
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Göbekli Tepe is located in Anatolia, modern day eastern Turkey, and was unearthed in the nineties, but its significance wasn’t understood until later. They were able to carbon date the enclosures: they had been buried for ten thousand years, and therefore uncontaminated. The complex, only five percent of which has been unearthed (we know through ground-penetrating radar that the rest exists), had been in use for about a thousand five hundred years. 11,500 years ago points to the end of the Younger Dryas, the extremely anomalous climatic period that ended the Ice Age. It’s also, incidentally, the date that Plato set for the sinking of Atlantis, based on what Egyptian priests told to a Greek lawmaker and ancestor of Plato’s.
The Younger Dryas, that lasted from 12,800 years ago to 11,600, if I remember correctly, was the most deadly period of extinctions in the last six million years; about 65 percent of all animal species bigger than a goat went extinct. The global sea levels also rose about 120 meters.
An at least 11,500-year-old man-made complex, as it’s the case of Göbekli Tepe, was particularly troublesome because it looks like this:
[Check out the rest of this article on my personal page, where it looks better]
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