3 Ancient Civilizations That Make Historians Uncomfortable
The accepted consensus among historians is that the cradle of civilization, or the beginning of large organized cities, began with Mesopotamia around 6,500 B.C. and didn't really gain momentum until around 5,000 B.C., when agricultural cities began to pop up all over the fertile crescent. The traditional theory is that before this agricultural and population boom there were only relatively small proto-cities, or large villages and towns in the neolithic period, lacking the trade, writing, and somewhat educated populations of the later and larger cities located in the fertile crescent. Recently, with the aid of modern technologies, we are finding evidence of ancient civilizations that existed directly after the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago.
Many of these cities, or evidence of cities by large stone monuments and buildings, were submerged after the glaciers of the last ice age melted and the sea levels rose. This could push back their development to beginning before the last ice age and rewrite history timelines as we know them. Most archaeologists are reluctant to say definitively the age of these civilizations or even recognize that many of them aren't natural formations, like the Bimini Road submerged off the coast of Florida. They do this mostly because carbon dating is easily disputed and because more established scholars are sticking by their outdated research. There is a stigma associated with this kind of research, as scholars are often disgraced for putting their names behind studies that confirm these older dates. These cities may be a mystery until more dependable forms of dating technologies are invented, but evidence of their great age and sophistication is already outstanding and has been causing a large stir in the archaeological community.
Many of these cities, or evidence of cities by large stone monuments and buildings, were submerged after the glaciers of the last ice age melted and the sea levels rose. This could push back their development to beginning before the last ice age and rewrite history timelines as we know them. Most archaeologists are reluctant to say definitively the age of these civilizations or even recognize that many of them aren't natural formations, like the Bimini Road submerged off the coast of Florida. They do this mostly because carbon dating is easily disputed and because more established scholars are sticking by their outdated research. There is a stigma associated with this kind of research, as scholars are often disgraced for putting their names behind studies that confirm these older dates. These cities may be a mystery until more dependable forms of dating technologies are invented, but evidence of their great age and sophistication is already outstanding and has been causing a large stir in the archaeological community.
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#3 Gobekli Tepe
Gobekli Tepe was a large city located at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, and includes massive stone religious monuments and temples created by people who supposedly had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery.
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Found under 35 feet of sand and alongside 2 mastodon bones, which would make the artifact at least 11,000 years old.
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These artifacts validity is often seriously questioned, but that is the point, to question historians and their definitive answers and that is what the existence of Gobekli Tepe does. But unlike the artifacts shown above, Gobekli Tepe's existence is not questioned.
Gobekli Tepe is separated into four layers ranging from the beginning of its construction until it disappeared, the oldest dating back to 12,000 years! The structures predate pottery, metallurgy, the invention of writing, and the invention of the wheel. They were even built before animal husbandry or the neolithic revolution, which occurred at around 9,000 B.C.
Archaeologists estimate that its construction would have required at least 500 round-the-clock workers to extract the 20 ton pillars from the local quarry, and carry them the half-mile to the site. Radiocarbon dating as well as comparative analysis indicate Gobekli Tepe is the oldest city known anywhere, and that at one time this epicenter attracted worshipers from up to a 100 miles away. Butchered bones found in large quantities were discovered at the site and identified as refuse from food that was hunted and prepared for it's congregants. Some believe that the carved pillars and idols representing various animals are there to protect the dead, and that Gobleki Tepe was an original cult city for the dead.
Around the beginning of the 8th century B.C. and the advent of agriculture and domestication of animals, the site lost it's importance and was abandoned. But not before its inhabitants carefully filled it in with rock and gravel, possibly to preserve it for their return.
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The assumption is that the site was strictly a religious cult in practice and purpose and therefore uninhabited, which has been challenged with the suggestion that some of the structures served as large communal houses similar in some ways to the large plank houses of the Northwest Coast of North America with their impressive house posts and totem poles. It is not known why every few decades the existing pillars were buried to be replaced by new stones, as part of a smaller concentric ring inside an older one.
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About 20 of these large oval and circular rooms have been found with diameters of about 30 meters.
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| Many of the pillars are carved with 3-D reliefs in a naturalistic style |
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Human style sculptures were discovered; they had no mouth and a dark deep black eyes.
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Gobekli Tepe has so far, raised more questions than answers, but it opens the door to a far older history of civilization than we ever imagined.
