The Builders of Göbekli Tepe: Is This Really a Mystery?
Channel: The Archaeologist's Laboratory
Date: 2023-09-07

The conventional view is that hunter-gatherers from a wide region built Göbekli Tepe when they converged there for seasonal rituals, but some people claim that they would not have had the technology or know-how to accomplish that. This has led to fanciful claims that Göbekli Tepe's builders were disciples of some lost Pleistocene civilization, or even extraterrestrials. However, the most plausible scenario is that Göbekli Tepe's builders were Neolithic villagers who resided at the site.

Chapters
00:08 Introduction
01:04 First Temple
02:12 Advanced Technology?
03:53 Atlanteans & Alleged Lost Civilizations
05:39 Problems with These Theories
07:36 Hunter-Gatherer Capabilities
09:34 Hunter-Gatherers or Farmers?
13:31 Then How'd They Do It?
16:28 Summary
17:55 Sources and Further Reading

If you're interested in the theories that claim that Göbekli Tepe has something to do with a lost civilization, or even extraterrestrials, you might want to check out my other video that deals with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPr0C-HgyA&t=3s

As so many of the comments here focused on the "handbags" on Pillar 43, I have since made a video on that specific topic: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Vrruk9BSU

And here's the article I published on the site in 2011:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/661207?mobileUi=0

And another article in which I review more recent developments about the site:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2022-0317/html?lang=en 

And here's an article that critiques Hancock's theory of a pre-Holocene civilization, with an emphasis on Göbekli Tepe:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/analysis-of-graham-hancocks-claim-that-ancient-apocalypse-erased-lost-civilization-of-atlantis/

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