Trevor Watkins. Боги и храмы в 9000 BC? Гёбекли́-Тепе́

Gods and Temples at 9000 BC? Göbekli Tepe and its mythology versus its place in the Neolithic Dr. Trevor Watkins University of Edinburgh 25th October 2021 CET (Rome, Paris, Berlin / GMT 2) (İstanbul, Athens / GMT 3) (New York / GMT-4) The discovery of the massive enclosures, their sculpted monoliths, and the impressive imagery is problematic for archaeologists. The site, which dates to the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic, is unique. At present, we have incomplete information from only a very small part of the site; and it is difficult to understand how it relates to what we know of that period in southeast Turkey and north Syria. The first excavator, the late Klaus Schmidt, suggested in the title of a popular book that he wrote about Göbekli Tepe that “They Built the First Temples”. That excited the imaginations of writers in both scientific and popular magazines to link Göbekli Tepe and the beginnings of