is that Göbekli
Tepe inverts the standard model entirely. Civilization did not produce religion. Shared ritual
purpose produced civilization. The organizational demand of building and maintaining this site
may have been what created the conditions for settled life, agriculture, and everything that
followed.
Religion came first. Everything else came after.
What remains unexplained is the deliberate burial. Around 8000 BCE, the entire complex was
systematically backfilled with thousands