Oct 11, 2025 05:42 PM
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...-180987489
EXCERPTS: At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites -- Karahantepe in southeast Turkey -- researchers have unearthed a T-shaped stone pillar bearing a carved human face. Dating back some 11,000 years, the four-and-a-half-foot-tall piece is the first of its kind to be found in the area.
[...] Ancient hunter-gatherers built Karahantepe, Göbeklitepe and the area’s other settlements in the 10th millennium B.C.E., before the advent of agriculture. Karahantepe was occupied for about 1,500 years, after which its inhabitants buried and abandoned it, per the Art Newspaper.
The sites prove that contrary to widespread belief, humans settled in permanent dwellings before practicing animal husbandry and farming. As Karul said in 2021, Karahantepe shows that “agriculture is not a cause, but the effect, of settled life,” reported the Art Newspaper...(MORE - missing details)
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EXCERPTS: At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites -- Karahantepe in southeast Turkey -- researchers have unearthed a T-shaped stone pillar bearing a carved human face. Dating back some 11,000 years, the four-and-a-half-foot-tall piece is the first of its kind to be found in the area.
[...] Ancient hunter-gatherers built Karahantepe, Göbeklitepe and the area’s other settlements in the 10th millennium B.C.E., before the advent of agriculture. Karahantepe was occupied for about 1,500 years, after which its inhabitants buried and abandoned it, per the Art Newspaper.
The sites prove that contrary to widespread belief, humans settled in permanent dwellings before practicing animal husbandry and farming. As Karul said in 2021, Karahantepe shows that “agriculture is not a cause, but the effect, of settled life,” reported the Art Newspaper...(MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/vAR8p3Glwbs