Tastepeler

This blog (and an earlier blog) has noted Göbekli Tepe a few times despite not knowing anything about the site for its own sake. One poast here concerned the zodiac; the other pondered Sweatman. h/t hbdchick; here's Sean Thomas. Allow me to emerge from the antipodian ice long enough to devote a poast to the tenth-millennium BC Tastepeler generally. Yes that's a "millennium".

Basically it's what Professor Daniel Jackson from Stargate should have been referencing, instead of muh pyramids. I wonder nowadays if we might even revisit that Sphinx . . .

Göbekli is 13 km from Adme / Edessa / Callirhoë. It is now a tourist suburb thereof. Göbekli is not the only tepe anymore; Thomas is noting also Karahan. (Tastepeler is the plural - "stonehills".) And Sayburc is coming. In fact, this may be what Thomas has contributed to the archaeology.

For this people the "T Shaped Pillars" came to be important. These are a subset of a general theme of the local sculpture. It's a man, covering his... manhood, with his hands. Sometimes six-fingered hands. (Base-12 numerics?)

Thomas does not note what the locals made of the "Younger Dryas" ice-age. Thomas says the culture founded Göbekli 10000 BC or before, and Karahan 11000 BC. The Göbeklites sabotaged their own site 8000 BC. YD started 10900 BC and lasted a millennium.

The Tastepeler did have locals. As of the mid 2000s AD (we only knew the place 1994!) only the temples were excavated; now, we know that people settled at least some of the sites. Again, I do not know if these people settled the sites first (with huts?), or set up their (archaeologist-visible) homes later - but, by the 8000s BC, they were growing (emmer) wheat and brewing "alcohol" probably nearbeer like the Mesoamericans.