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>You leave out the minor detail of Grahamβs total lack of evidence for his magic super civilization.
You're being pjerorative. He doesn't posit there was a "magic super civilization."
Graham suggests that there's evidence that a seafaring civilization with a relatively sophisticated understanding of astronomy, mathematics, navigation and agriculture existed pre-Holocene.
One example of his evidence is the fact that the ancient Egyptian architecture is so much superior in the older time periods and then the quality of their works actually degraded as they moved forward in time, suggesting a civilization that inherited strong knowledge at its founding and then lost its way over time. That is not proof of his hypothesis, but it is evidence.
There's nothing wrong with pursing that line of inquiry.
Considering that we have almost zero information about our own species' way of life prior to the last ice age, it is important for us to probe into this time and expand our knowledge.
The fact that Gobekli Tepe (and the other regional sites of its ilk) exists means that humans were able to organize and create megalithic sites much earlier than anyone in academia thought possible until quite recently. 30 years ago archaelogy was steadfast in the view that ancient Sumeria was the first civilization to create megalithic public works, and now that event horizon has been pushed back by thousands of years.
What more is out there to be discovered? We shall see.