>>212699119In the 90s some turkish farmer noticed some weird stones on a hill and accidentally hit upon the oldest known monolithic site we currently know of, dated to around 9000BC, near the end of the last ice age.
It's remarkable for several reasons, it contains a huge amount of monoliths, around 70 or so have been dug up, like 400 more are still unearthed.
It's like stonehenge on crack but predates it by 5000 - 6000 years.
Some of the stones show remarkable craftsmanship, in particular that the markings arent carved into the stone but rather the stone around the markings and symbols carved away, similar to how statues are hewn out of rock by basically chiselling away the stuff you dont want.
It contains 4 different main chambers each with 2 main huge monoliths that all point in almost the same direction, likely tracking sirius across hundreds of years with remarkable accuracy.
Agriculture wasnt a thing when the first parts of it were made but seems to have sprung up around it a few hundred years after the first known parts are thought to have been made. This predates the known mesopotamian agriculture starting date by another 5000 years or so.
The wheel hadnt been invented yet either supposedly which is also commonly assumed to have been created around 4000bc.
Perhaps most intruguingly, it appears that the site was intentionally buried like 6000 years ago as opposed to hidden by time.