
Vol 1 Ep 19 - Megaliths, Part One ( Göbekli Tepe )
History of the World podcast
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The Origins of the Kilimoliths
Some of these capital letter ts made from stone are 20 feet high and weigh around ten tons. The shapes were made of limestone, and some of them were carefully carved with depictions of animals. Radio carbon dating points us towards a possible date of nine thousand b c e for the earliest layer of activity at the si. So this must point towards a large scale operation which relied deeply on co operative skill. It would be fair to say that agricultural societies were only just starting to emerge at this point in history.
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