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Jiang proposes that hunter-gatherers visited Gobekli Tepe periodically for religion, feasting, social association, mate-finding, and reproduction.
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Feasting
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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"These T -shapes are animals, and you can see that they align, or they built this, this T -shape in a way that they..."
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"To find husbands and wives to reproduce. And so, this sort of religious center, it's a great time to come and practice your religion,..."
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"...longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbatians encountered and practiced and encouraged sexual promiscuity, adultery, father..."
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"...exchange, and a new set of codes requiring public sacrifices and feasting became the foundation for a new kind of social power. Stock breeding..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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