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Culturally, Göbekli Tepe is revolutionizing how we understand early human society. New findings over the past few years suggest a far more complex, symbolic, and socially structured culture than we previously thought for 10,000–12,000 years ago.
Here’s a breakdown of what we now know — or strongly suspect — culturally:
1. Rituals Came Before Cities
>Göbekli Tepe shows that organized religion or spiritual practices may have preceded agriculture and permanent settlements, not the other way around.
>This flips the old model of: “We settled down built farms created religion.”
Instead, it may have been: “We built sacred sites gathered regularly then settled.”
2. Large-Scale Cooperation Without States
>Coordinating the construction of dozens of multi-ton T-shaped megaliths, with carved reliefs and stone circles, implies:
>Shared belief systems
>Communal labor
>Ritual specialists or symbolic leaders>Yet this was all done before writing, metal, or centralized governments — suggesting belief was the glue.
3. Symbolic Animal Culture
>Carvings show animals like boars, snakes, leopards, vultures, and scorpions — not randomly chosen but likely mythological or totemic.
>Some scholars suggest these may reflect:
>Clan or tribal symbols
>Deified animal spirits
>Shamanistic visions or dream ecology
>This implies an oral mythos, possibly with proto-deities or cosmological roles for animals.
4. Feasting Culture
>Residue of fermented grain and large-scale animal bones suggest ritual feasting — potentially involving:
>Beer-like drinks
>Sacrificial meals
>Gathering of hundreds, maybe thousands
This hints at seasonal festivals or pilgrimage traditions, where diverse bands united under shared rites.
5. Art as a Language of Power & Spirit
>The high-relief carvings and human-like statues suggest:
>Early artistic conventions (exaggerated hands, stylized heads)
>Possibly gendered or spiritual symbolism (like belt motifs or hand placement)
>It’s art, but not just decoration — likely sacred, communicative, and identity-driven.
6. Early Astronomical & Cosmological Thinking
>Pillar alignments and symbols may reference:
>Solstices
>The Vega constellation
>Comet impacts or celestial events (~10,850 BC impact theory)
>This suggests an emerging cosmological worldview, with the heavens playing a role in life and death.
7. Body & Identity Symbolism
>New statues (like the Karahan Tepe human with hands on genitals) suggest intense body symbolism.
>Could reflect life-death cycles, fertility, ancestor worship, or shamanic transformation.
>Nudity and hand gestures may be deliberate ritual codes.
Summary of Cultural Picture:
>A world with seasonal pilgrimages, symbolic animals, ritual feasting, ancestor reverence, sky-watching, and spiritual leadership — all without cities, kings, or farming.
>Their culture was likely held together by myths, sacred duties, and shared symbols.
Göbekli Tepe was not a city, but it was a civilization.
Good book on megalithic cultures here. Oral cultures rely on signifiers as a form of memory aid. In a world of primitive communism knowledge is wealth.
You're advertising a book? Lol anyway sundaland is more interesting you Rogan nutt licker
The world began during Leo age. Represeeent!
>>40642713 (OP)what did they use for money? Money is as old as writing very symbolic and abstract as its almost always a fiat system based on authority. A record of account showing debits and credits which was created to end blood fueds. If they had all this infrastructure they organized in some manner based on incentives.
>>40646079Just beyond the Pillars of Hercules, you can't miss it.
>>40645898You should look up the cocept of a gift economy
>>40646097I do, I see nothing but left wing orcas attacking billionaires in their yachts
>>40646079West Africa. The origin of the ancient Egyptians according to them and Plato. If you actually look, there are ruins underwater. There's stuff off the coast of the Americas that is pretty suspect too. But the most suspect is the eye of the sahara and how it was like before the desert took it.
>>40646359They are dumbasses then if they lived in a desert lol
>>40645994>I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youthHeh, guess the lord felt more bad about the other species than your corrupted asses. I told you your excess imagination constantly exploiting this shit is what makes our lives for the worse. To the point of even exalting the entertainment industry as high as the nobles of classes. Huum...
>>40642713 (OP)I'm so sick of the narrative that our ancestors were idiots that started as savages. They are just as smart ass we are today and were very clearly advanced
>Where's the technologyYou're staring at the fucking technology. The form of what they built IS the function. Arrangements of specific items in specific spots with specific geometry create the effects. If those bastards actually looked hard enough they would find the torus stones and the conical waveguides that they used for levitating the rocks into place. They pick up a piece of advanced technology and don't even remotely know what they are looking at and then proceed in all of their hubris to proclaim that our ancestors were idiots while literally standing in a temple whose function they are entirely unaware of and don't even know how to use. I fucking hate soience
>>40645898Some peoples just didn't use money even though they were aware of it. Cities like Gobekli probably began as a conglomeration of tribes that traded commonly held goods with status determining who gets what.
