Gobekli Tepe

I just read about Gobekli Tepe last night. My mind is completely blown.

Scientists postulate that the earliest complex societies originated in Modern day Iran, with the Sumerians in 5,000 B.C. Gobekli Tepe is the site of what is thought to be a complex society that predates Suma by 6,000 years. That is impossible.

The ice age had ended for only 2,000 years and humans had just started migrating north as the permafrost began to melt. We were using stone tools with loin cloths. How did primitive hunter-gatherers acquire the knowledge to create intricate stone carvings, perfect circles, and strong columns? And they even had a crude written language. We have only unearthed 1 in a series of structures, all buried by hand with sand transported from miles away.

Why did our ancient ancestors bury it? That must have taken hundreds of years. Why did they not just abandon it? And what happened with their technology? It would be 4,000 years before Stonehenge erected, and 6,000 before Suma was built.

At the moment, no bodies have been discovered yet. So apparently, it was a peaceful society. No complex society has existed in peace for any length of time without violence and usurp in the recorded history of man. This is absurd, against every grain of evidence we have acquired thus far.

I hope we can translate their symbols to gain some insight into how life was, but I fear the chronological gap between Gobekli Tepe and the next complex society is far too large, and its language is not related to anything we know.

For now, its discovery raises more questions than it answers.