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A central Turkish archaeological site, dated by Jiang around 9500 BCE, used as the first case for religion preceding settled agriculture.
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Gobekli Tepe
A central Turkish archaeological site, dated by Jiang around 9500 BCE, used as the first case for religion preceding settled agriculture.
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Gobekli Tepe is treated as the first known temple and as evidence for Jiang's claim that humans are first and foremost religious builders.
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Jiang identifies Gobekli Tepe as a religious site in central Turkey dated around 9500 BCE, with massive T-shaped pillars probably representing human beings.
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Jiang says Gobekli Tepe was probably a place of religious worship led by shamans, religious leaders who helped bridge the human, animal, and spirit worlds.
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Jiang says only about five percent of Gobekli Tepe has been uncovered and that the next few decades should bring more knowledge.
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"the pyramids and they built the pyramids to build the nuclear bomb same concept where they believe that they're creating eternal peace on earth..."
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"they express themselves through their expression of religion through art architecture music dance and it's an amazing achievement um because these pillars okay they're..."
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"...we're gonna look at three different archeological sites. The first is Gobekli Tepe, the second is Jericho, and the third is Katahoyak, okay? All..."
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"These places were only discovered in the past few decades, okay? So, these are new places. We're only starting to understand these places, and..."
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"...the spirit world, okay? So, these are shamans. Okay? And so, Gobekli Tepe is a place of religious worship. Now, what's interesting about Gobekli..."
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"Basically, we basically uncovered about 5 % of Cabobo Tepe. So over the next few decades, we'll know more."
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"...to the beginning of this course, back in September, I discussed Gobekli Tepe, right? Gobekli Tepe is a temple in Anatolia,"
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"...desire for humans to settle down and found religious societies. Well, Gobekli Tepe is very similar to Stonehenge. They are both astronomical. They have..."
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"...review, last class we discussed three pre -historical sites, right? Including Gobekli Tepe, Jericho, and Kanahoyak. And the argument I made to you last..."
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"...pieces of evidence market archaeology We will look at today are Gobekli Tepe Jericho and Katara, Hawaii, okay, and these are places that we've..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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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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