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Muerte:
  Just something I found during some random research.  Chew it up and spit it out Monstrous.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

Unholy Saint:
Well i'll be dipped...

onishadowolf:
The funny thing is, I read this before. The symbolic importance of this is noted. But it isn't the whole story. You can call it the event that inspired the story of Eden, but I don't think it is in Eden. Simply because it doesn't answer all the questions. I think it's a memorial to Eden, but not in the way they think though.

rave phillaphia:
I think it is interesting that people automatically point out to the garden of eden or biblical stories as to why these monuments were here. I also know that they found different pieces of 'amulets' which are actually bits of seals (which were used for trading and agricultural reasons for labeling belongings) found at this site as well. One of the seals they found had a traditional middle eastern symbol of a tree and snake. Now you see why they want to link it to the biblical story which they forget to mention in these articles.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html?c=y&page=1

http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/turkey.html

Yes these are some of the oldest standing monuments in the world but lets not forget that it wasn't impossible for people with just stone tools and primitive pottery to be able to build these things. The article that was posted before says that people didn't have pottery at this time which isn't true at all. The problem with this is that there is limited pottery because it was a luxery good and pottery is hard to kiln. Also because of limited pottery production that means limited finds of pottery bits.

It was a Neolithic community, yes, but now we are neglecting all the earthen mounds created at this time and sites that have been long demolished due to reuse of these areas. So with this in mind, we must not forget that there were centers of religious annual worship because many of these people in this region were horticulture not just hunter/gathering societies.

AWBrielle:

--- Quote from: rave phillaphia on October 18, 2010, 10:21:40 AM ---I think it is interesting that people automatically point out to the garden of eden or biblical stories as to why these monuments were here.
--- End quote ---

My sentiments exactly. Not that there's anything wrong with automatically pointing to religion, but I don't know - my first thoughts would be, "Which civilization lived here?"
*shrug*

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