Gbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization

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11. Ceremony leaves traces

and the only traces they've found are lunch and periodic renewal projects.

The hazard of being an archaeologist is that you tend to see religion and willies everywhere. Gobekli Tepe has none of the former and a superabundance of the latter. I''m talking about the oldest stones, the most beautiful carvings.

I hope they did check for pigments.

They might find a flat stone with traces of blood at some of the youngest circles, people were starting to think in those terms by then.

I've often wondered about how it might have looked, either covered over or at night, the images painted. With dim torch light or even dimmer reed light, the painted surfaces would seem to leap right out at you, the stone in the background fading away. I think it would have been spectacular. No wonder they kept it going for so long.