Göbekli Tepe Ruins Its Own Mystique by Turning Out to Have Houses
Recent geomagnetic surveys and excavations at the monumental Turkish site of Göbekli Tepe have uncovered architectural traces resembling residential dwellings. This inconvenient domestic reality threatens the romantic mainstream dogma that the 11,000-year-old stone circles served as an isolated, purely ascetic temple ground for roaming hunter-gatherers. It turns out people might have actually lived where they partied, completely upending traditional timelines of sedentary civilization.