Göbekli Tepe
A stone sanctuary built by hunters, older than farming
Rings of T-shaped pillars up to 5 metres tall, carved with foxes, boars and snakes, were raised around 9500 BC, before pottery, writing and apparently farming. The find upended the idea that fields and villages came first and temples later: it may have been the other way round.
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Göbekli Tepe was built around 9500 BC, 6,500 years before Stonehenge. More time separates them than separates Stonehenge from us.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 9500 BC The Shigir Idol — same year