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The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)

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The Origins of Human Civilization

A German archaeologist discovered a series of circular temple-like structures at Gobekli Tepe. He argues that this was used by hand together as we traveled sometimes for thousands of miles to visit this, perhaps as a yearly pilgrimage. And it was only several hundred years later that we find the first evidence of permanent settlement in the area. Smith suggests that this decision was based on not material, but spiritual needs. It was based on their urge to gather together and enact those ceremonies that would have been terribly important to them.

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