Recent geophysical surveys and excavations north of Göbekli Tepe's monumental enclosures have detected traces of rectangular residential structures dating back millennia. For decades, orthodox archaeology insisted the 11,000-year-old site was strictly an isolated ceremonial sanctuary built by migrating hunter-gatherers who refused to settle down. Finding domestic dwellings right next to the world's oldest stone monuments thoroughly dismantles the tidy academic narrative that farming and permanent villages had to precede monumental architecture.