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@EuroWarsOrg

3 ай бұрын

The "History" Channel. lol

@EuroWarsOrg

3 ай бұрын

Even just a prevailing wind blowing dust over 8 millennia could cover the place with dirt without anyone noticing...

@geoff3656

3 ай бұрын

@@EuroWarsOrg yes that’s what happened to Troy

@RectalRooter

3 ай бұрын

I remember watching a live-action documentary a very long time ago about the civilization around Göbekli Tepe. I kind of remember 1 of the settlements was a tomb holding some kind of king holding a great sword. Trying to rack my brain to remember what is was called. It must have been somewhere in the 1980's I remember !!!! It was documentary was called Conan the Barbarian

@EuroWarsOrg

3 ай бұрын

@@RectalRooter Was Gobekli Tepe discovered yet in 1980s?

Finally I heard a more plausible proposal about Gobekli Tepe burying.

@DriverDad58

2 ай бұрын

Natural slope slippage and erosion has been known for some time, and while it's great that you have finally heard that, it just goes to show how incorrect ideas, backed with enough PR/media coverage, can be very difficult to correct.

Because they moved to the Balkans and founded Danubian Civilization. Then went to Scandinavia and founded pottery cultures and built Stonehenge on the way

Is it possible that the entire structure was covered in a wooden roof, capped with soil as to blend in with the landscape? In other words, a man made under ground settlement. Once the wood gave way, the soil buried the interior, soon after it was abandoned.

@johncrookes1197

2 ай бұрын

Thats a decent idea

@mmhoss

2 ай бұрын

if that happened the majority of the stones would be knocked over onto their sides when unearthed

@Les537

2 ай бұрын

Why? They would be sitting in the dark.

@GizzyDillespee

2 ай бұрын

If that had happened, the necessary timbers would've been pretty huge, to hold up all that dirt. You'd think some evidence of such big timbers would still have been there when the site was excavated. Now, it's possible that there was a wooden roof, even with dirt on top, and later people repurposed the wood, collapsing the dirt as they removed the beams.

@marktyler3381

2 ай бұрын

There's not much sign of soot, that's the main reason to doubt it. It was my immediate thought the first time I saw the site.

"Gobekli tepe was not a sustainable site" Also: "...Was inhabited for 1500 years"

@BaMenace

2 ай бұрын

1500 years isn't a sustainable period of time for life..😂

@xKynOx

2 ай бұрын

The village i live in was roman for 500 years there is not 1 bit of roman anything left it just vanished.

@faster6329

2 ай бұрын

@@xKynOx Could be a few meters under your feet :)

Göbekil Tepe is around 300 meters in diameter making it a very significant construction for a civilization with stone tools and primitve equipment.

@russellmillar7132

3 ай бұрын

Only about 15% has been excavated so far. Hard to determine the diameter till more has been unearthed.

@nomadscavenger

3 ай бұрын

​@@russellmillar7132and how many layers lie beneath? Troy had more than a few once they finally got down to it I believe...

@brotherjongrey9375

3 ай бұрын

Why would stone tools imply a smaller diameter? . The size of a village/city is defined by how many people live there, not by how technologically advanced they are. Mexico city has a much larger diameter than NYC. But NYC has better "tools and equipment"

@savannakougar5209

2 ай бұрын

I doubt it was mererly a hunter-gatherer society. Too sophisticated IMO.

@russellmillar7132

2 ай бұрын

@@savannakougar5209 So how did this society get food, IYO? Do you believe they had developed animal husbandry or had domesticated plants prior to building these structures. The designation "hunter-gatherer" only speaks to how they get their food. It's not a measure of their sophistication or lack thereof.

Fantastic content 😊

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Cheers

I find myself being excited about all that we are learning about our ancestors. I am fully convinced that we are no better than they were. They were more than hunter gatherers; they were dreamers, project managers, designers, engineers, stone masons, hard workers. In other words, they were real people.

@FrancisFjordCupola

3 ай бұрын

I agree we're no better; but we are likely as much alike as we are different and we have the luxury of being in an entirely different situation. Modern medicine, food security, transportation, et cetera.

@elihinze3161

3 ай бұрын

I agree! What I would give to be able to talk with one of them.

@clay-tw5gc

3 ай бұрын

@@elihinze3161 unfortunately, you would have to have a crash course on their language. It would be nice to watch how they go through the construction phases.

@geoff3656

3 ай бұрын

@@elihinze3161 you are one of them .. Reincarnation is very real..! IMO

thanks for adding clarity and common sense on this topic, it much needed nowadays.

Really enjoyed this-especially some of the layouts that I haven't seen before-especially the one with the water /erosion flow-it is the best depiction of the site that I have ever seen because it truly shows the site's layout, size, etc. better than anything I've seen before.

Much like many medieval sites have been abandoned in more recent history it is likely the geographical factors in an evolving landscape after the end of the ice age meant that there were better more suitable locations that offered easier lifestyles. Climate is a dynamic factor in history and effects the food chain from top to bottom. Only by finding and studying where populations moved to next can we begin to understand why ?

@jeromekemmer8148

3 ай бұрын

I think Matt covered one of the why's in that the eventual deforestation of the surrounding area lead to them ultimately abandoning the stie. Even if they used conservation practices, the regrowth of trees in rocky arid landscapes always seems to be slower than the demand. There was another ancient site in England that was determined to probably have been abandoned for similar reasons; the type of land couldn't keep up with the demand for wood. I'm sure there are other factors, but he covered this one.

@jackmullin8962

3 ай бұрын

​@@jeromekemmer8148yeah most logical likely explanation! Wood and trees were essential but cutting down trees also doesn't help the soil soak up all the rain water and flooding. Could of moved due to that also and top layer of earth getting marshy there. Probably ended up drowning the site in soil after floods and landslides etc. Hence why it ended up buried after thousands of years.

@russellmillar7132

3 ай бұрын

Maybe they re-routed the interstate highway system. Many thriving communities have become ghost towns because of that.

@alfonsedente9679

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for mansplaining Ross Geller

That it lasted as long as it did is amazing

I've been devouring your videos on GT recently. I'm going to be visiting it next week and I wanted as much information as possible before I go - real information, not fairy tales or alien conspiracy theories! - and your channel has delivered in spades. I feel a lot more prepared for my visit now and am really looking forward it. It's been a dream of mine to visit GT ever since I first read about it in the 90s, so it's a trip that's been 30 years in the making! I can't wait and thank you for giving me so much factual information to make my experience that much better.

Such an intriguing site. So mysterious.

I really like the way you engage with a site and the available evidence. Setting aside assumptions and interpretations, to see if there is another possible explanation, can help us see things we’ve overlooked or misunderstood. To me, that is a lot more fun and useful. I am so glad you will get to go in person this year, breathe that air and touch that soil. I will be with your group in spirit. Looking forward to what you learn there.

Awesome. New video.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Enjoy

Great job, Matt! I've see the recent video of Prehistory Guys "three days at Gobekly tepe" with doctor Lee Clare, very interesting! When you see the hill above from the prospective of the special site, all burial dynamics becomes clearer! Sorry for my "primitive" english!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Your English is great and far better than me trying any other language! In fact your English is better than a lot of Englishmen 😂 Thanks for the info. I still need to watch the latest Prehistory guys video. Thank you 🙏

been binging your videos about this time period, great stuff bro. would love to hear your take on the black sea deluge

Brilliant analysis! Glad you are trying to give a more balanced non-bias view.

I see a place you bring your skins and gathered fruits to be processed in an early cooperative scenario. A seasonal event where you hand over skins etc and leave with wine, clothing, preserves. A place that had a relatively small population but could cater to mass gatherings in times of conflict or ritual celebrations 👍

@brotherjongrey9375

3 ай бұрын

If you are coming with "skins" and leaving with wine... that means commerce made us civilized and not agriculture (And I agree, but many do not) That would imply that some people live in the city and are specialized to making finished goods to trade with you for your raw materials. ...not just hunter-gatherers But hunters, gatherers, wine makers, flint knappers, etc... A society just as "civilized" but NOT farming (as we conceive it)

Very nice work, Matt! I hope the people of Turkey understand what a privilege it is to be the custodians of such a vitally important site.

@cosmicbalancer5084

3 ай бұрын

Here ye here ye may we all understand what a privilege it is to be custodians of these human body forms! May we be ok with sucking up to those who want to remind us constantly of our privileges! 🤮

@freeyourlife3999

2 ай бұрын

I think they are not aware and don't understand. Brainwashed by Islam.

@sashamoore9691

2 ай бұрын

They don’t. They hardly care to preserve, nor care of their privileged to the Anatolian regions history

Well reasoned and explained. Thank you!

Excellent analysis. Thanks Matt!

Excellent video! Thank you!

Another excellent video! Very interesting content!

Those relief carvings matching those in peru,india, japan and Egypt contest your hunter gatherer view

Nice video but I still am not convinved. Gobekli Tepe is deemed a hill-top site and from what I have seen in various videos, this statement is true. My question is that a huge amount of material was required to bury the site and it is not evident that this existed above the present site. Given each landslide or partial filling in would deplete the higher-up the slope source material, the filling in would decline . I have no alternative explanation that does not involve the moving of masses of material by incredible storms or floods. A visit to the site would be of great help with this and I look forward to your report. Just wish I could join you on the trip. Good luck!

@TigerLily61811

2 ай бұрын

Bear in mind it is the highest point on the landscape for miles and miles around. Hill is a misleading term that makes it sound small and video of that landscape it's tough to get a sense of scale. The site is towards the top but not at the pinnacle... ever notice most of the video films down into it? Plenty of material to fill in the enclosures over 10K years. The landscape can change a lot in that time.

@farmerpete6274

2 ай бұрын

@@TigerLily61811 Yes, there are video shots looking down onto some parts of the excavated site - but there are others which show excavations carrying on up the hill towards the summit. Given that these locations were also completely buried, this is what confuses me with the 'downhill erosion' theory.

One of the best videos, the best channels and the best researchers and narrators. Thanks!

Great video! Well balanced information.

Well done & thank you!

great video!

8:14 If we accept that these are separate events separated over time then is it not an easy assumption to make that the place was abandoned 'long' before the lowest layer of deposition.

Your hard work researching is obvious in All of your videos. THANK YOU SIR! 🎉

Kool!! Thank you!!

Thanks Matt for a reasonad explanation.

i like this hypothesis...however, it IS a hypothesis....the combination of nature and humans makes complete sense, to me....and, no! no aliens needed...nary a one! thanks, Matt, for your down to earth explanations of what possibly occured👍👍

I just want to say Thank you so much for all the hard work you are putting into this research. And, the way you explain the information is easy to understand, at least for me. It sounds like your hard work will be rewarded with a trip of a lifetime to that region of the planet.

Well done!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

👍

Thank you Matt👍🏼❤

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Lynn

Περιμένω με αγωνία τα νέα σου videos.

Thank you sir!👍

Thank you

Fabulous work as ever Matt! 👏 'I Want to Beleive' the Loons of Ancient Aliens but, as you say, it's all just too hilarious to contemplate most of the time... 🤣 I've long thought tho' that *you* are an excellent 'bridge' between them and the slightly stuffy, (and considerably less entertaining) world of the Scientific and Archaeological research papers. It's a great 'service' mate, and I'm really delighted that your channel has become so successful... Thanks as ever, Bobby 🐭

Didn't expect a clip of AA to be triggering after all these years but just hearing the words "Ancient Alien Theorists" made my blood pressure spike.

Not buried but sheltered from to be eroded by the weather, or destroyed; hoping that one day would be discovered as a warning of the incoming end of the next cycle.

The discussion between natural or anthropogenic filling ought to end by a geological analysis of the filling material.

BTW ALWAYS LOVE THE INTRO MUSIC. RESPECT!

seems possible that the last inhabitants probably didn't know why the structure was there or what is was originally built for

Gobekli was a massive necropolis business. Necropolii end for two reasons. a. A change in religion and burial practices. b. A decline in the economy. Lavishing resources on a necropolis is a luxury, than can easily be dropped if times are hard. Note: Large cooking facilities are necessary at a necropolis, to cater for the Last Supper for mourners. If you look at the Cappadocia necropolii, they have a Christian chapel (circular enclosure), a burial room (square rooms behind), and a long dining hall (for the Last Supper for the dead). It was big business. R

My heart. Luckily you are not of sensationalism. Hancock is a novelist, and a father of a Netflix executive. Giving credits to making a site known to masses, well not my kind of merits to make, sounds more like a bandaid to a messy wound. Anyway I am happy to see you are keeping it real. Cheers

One consequence of the adoption of agriculture was the gradual concentration of population and hence the demand for wood for fuel (e.g., to bake bread). Deforestation was followed by progressive removal of shrubs and grasses for cooking, providing light at night to thwart predators, and heating in winter. This ultimately led to soil destabilization with seismicity enhancing gravity slumping.

remember watching a live-action documentary a very long time ago about the civilization around Göbekli Tepe. I kind of remember 1 of the settlements was a tomb holding some kind of king holding a great sword. Trying to rack my brain to remember what is was called. It must have been somewhere in the 1980's I remember !!!! It was documentary was called Conan the Barbarian

The idea that Gobekli Tepe was filled in by nature makes more sense than “they buried it” which would have taken a lot of work. Also it might be better to say there was a temple in the community, as these were very spiritual people. But what I find most interesting is humans turned to building with stone after the Younger Dryas, which lends credence to the idea that part of the catastrophe was a massive solar flare.

RESPECT!

Splendid 😃

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Enjoy

@robstewart1703

3 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects great video, thanks dude 🙏🏼😃

Thank you for keeping on top of the latest research and findings for this site.

of course, these gigantic stone circles where nothing but kitchen appliances - mabe imported from old

Not to disparage Hancock. But you did a really good job on this. We are all stuck in stories of a flood,. They all begin and end on a mountain top. There is a lot more digging that has to be done before speculating about anything in the vicinity of Ararat.

Thank You as always Matt

They had to go, simply as that. Now, they did shield it. Also, where should they go? I'll tell you what there are some theories. Some went to Turkey, some to Scandinavia, some to America e.t.c. Now, don't get me wrong those trips was hard. They couldn't use a car or buy a ticket like we can know. Most readers understand this. And I would also like to add that the stone age was pretty cool. Why? I have several reasons for that. One, I like stone and stones I really do. I'm an artist and stone is my go to. Second, stone age people was pretty tough. Third, cant think of a third reason but you get my point. Anyway Göbekli Tepe rules what a great site, I have a Tepe baseball hat from last year and love it. People ask me "Where did you get that?" I just laugh lol....

Great stuff again,. i would love to see video looking at the wider view of the trade links from all around , no way it was just a one off building enterprise, these ancients had far and wide trade links, it may help us understand a lot more. if not the trade links, then the animal migration paths that these people would have followed, and built around.

@mrbaab5932

3 ай бұрын

Yes, there are many nearby 'Tepes' like Karahan Tepe.

So it was a place where people lived that eventually feel into disrepair and disuse. That's actually what I always expected would be found once the place was more thoroughly excavated; Klaus Schmidt was just floating theories based on extremely early information gleaned from excavation of, by his own estimate, around 5% of site. In many ways I find it much more exciting that Gobekli Tepe waa a "normal" sort of human settlement, because it shows incredible organization at such an early time. That means there might be earlier, smaller, "proto-Gobeklis" out there in the ground somewhere.

Greenhouse gasses in Greenland ice cores (by which temperatures in the graph at 9:46 are deduced) show it was their decline /cooling (not rise/warming) which turned Gobekli Tepe from abundance into what we see now: the lower the CO2, the lower the altitude at which various plant can grow & top-soil can replenish. The recent spike of CO2/0.25°C needs be 5 times greater to restore Gobekli Hill's habitat of 9000yrs ago.

Fantastic video. It's so easy to get sucked down the path of the alternate history channels that claim everything is an unsolved mystery.

Enclosure AB cannot ever have been a ritual space because of the dense set of columns that were created by digging around them. It makes sense as a cistern, however: the pillars would have supported a roof of rock slabs meant to protect the water from animals, birds, and evaporation. The extra stones stacked on top of each pillar would have been added in order to raise that roof, as the capacity of the reservoir was augmented by building a low wall around it.

I do wonder if Gobekli Tepe is actually a city for its time .

They moved their camps down to the Harran Plain where the wheat and barley were actually growing.

I always thought the "deliberately buried" claim was pretty dubious. It didn't seem like there was enough evidence to support that assertion so concretely.

Totally agree

Thanks Matt for repeating this, as it is the most likely turn of events. Although I do believe that earthquakes might have had a stronger influence. It is after all an earthquake zone that can have absolute devastating effects, as we have recently witnessed. Even Sanliurfa as been effected by the last earthquake. So moving to safer ground would also have been a factor.

That this place was filled by nature might be possible, but this also strongly suggests, that the settlement wasn't inhabited at this exact point in time, when this happened. Normally, humans would just remove such landfill, that came through a landslide and continue with their lives afterwards. Like people are doing today. And not just people who have access to modern tools and helpful machines - really poor people do that too, with their hands. But if they weren't there when this happened, but actually returned back to this place at a later point in time, just to find parts of it buried this way, they might have choosen to not clean up this mess anymore and fill it up, to continue to use the other buildings instead.

weird volume up and down in this one

I'm wondering if the "covering up" of the structure was actually caused by a mud flood? It just doesn't make sense that people would bury it. There are sites all over the world that shows that there have been one or more worldwide flood/mud flood.

Hey, it's not exactly your normal content but I'd LOVE to see you do a review of the prima horror/drama movie "Out of Darkness"! Historical accuracy, costumes, geography, group dynamics, anything. I'd just love to see a breakdown or review from more people with anthropological backgrounds - it's set "45,000 years ago" and does an admirable job at being realistic (unlike say the movie "10,000 BC").

I still think that those circular enclosures were not ritual spaces but water reservoirs, for spring and/or rainwater. The interconnections, the external channels, the holes in the floor seem to make more sense in that interpretation. A floor dug down below the surrounding ground makes sense for a cistern, but would be pointless work for a ritual or social space. The reservoirs would have been modified, expanded, and reduced over the centuries as the local climate changed, and/or springs varied in volume, and/or the rain collection varied in area. The houses around the enclosures would have been just ordinary dwellings. It seems unlikely that a priestly class already existed at that time.

Was able to at least bring this channel to an ancient alien believer. Pointing out Inca acidic mud was something they had never considered

Can you make a video of the pyramids of Xian China please Al’s your video are amazing learning about Egypt

Stones are like school writing boards

Matt can you do a video of china pyramids

Tip of the iceberg it seems. Many decades of digging to be done.

So how did hunter gatherers gain the knowledge to carve and move such huge stones? And if they moved from this area, where did they go? Are there settlements on lower ground?

The animals left, the humans followed.

even I can add water floods, that land is likely clay and mud soils, so slides could be so frequently as we thought. from sat view marks of water path is so clearly in the layers the same a neat definition of clay soils.

The only explanation that makes sense a massive flood.

Were the layers of fill/sediment dated?

Earthquakes are more than normal in this region.. so natural cover up is a logical outcome..

If the site was initially established as a processing center for the meat harvest from the herds migrating past, occupation would have ended when the herds stopped passing by.

Hancock's narrative of people deliberately burying an entire complex always struck me as ridiculous. Thank you for your common sense explanation. I guess plain old erosion just isn't sexy enough for some book authors.

@harouttorkomian5897

3 ай бұрын

I dont think Hancock was the one who originally made that claim.

@JohnCompton1

3 ай бұрын

It was Klaus Schmidt, not Hancock, that hypothesized the site was buried deliberately. And ridiculous it isn't.

@CallMeA6

3 ай бұрын

@@JohnCompton1He who laughs last laughs best.

@TheListOf

3 ай бұрын

It was purposefully and carefully buried to protect and preserve for future inhabitants to discover. It is a TIME-CAPSULE. Do you understand what a time-capsule is??????

@neoclassic09

3 ай бұрын

@@TheListOfdid you not watch the video? They've determined it wasn't deliberately buried

Any mention of the great flood?

I'm not saying it's not aliens, but it's probably not aliens lol.

Some sites in tassili N'ajjer are older.

Great content as always. Why would it make sense for humans to finish the job of filling in the enclosures after erosion had started?

@Eyes_Open

3 ай бұрын

To level out the surface and rebuild on top.

Hi, I really like your approach to these subjects. If one is to have an open minded view, then one should be open to change his/hers view of even a recently formulated hypothesis. Regarding the filling of the pillar complex, should be no surprise that time alone could do it (erosion + human intervention). There are entire roman cities buried beneath current European capitals, and it happened in only ~2ky. People keep discovering more sites during subway constructions and such. And didn't Graham himself show an ancient Egyptian site that was featured on an old movie and now is used as a rubble dumping site for the military? Wasn't the sphinx unburied multiple times in history because sand just kept filling its enclosure back? Non the less, it is interesting to see that such an undertaking could be carried out right at the exit of the ice age by so called hunter gatherers. My highly uneducated guess: a Mad Max 3 barter town kind of situation. Some one was able to leverage the particular advantage of this place, get people (locals or in passing) to trade stuff. Maybe even stablish some kind of religion and/of knowledge gathering (astronomy, architecture). I just find it so curious that the ancients seemed to be obsessed with the stars, time keeping and engraving those in stone. Keep up the good work and lets collectively find it out 👍

There is a similarity o this and the Viking traditions. Egyptian traditions and obviously others. I think it's possible that these are not "religious" actions but possibly economical or, even, social. Ancient societies had economies much like ours, except more barter-centric rather than fiat, but there is some evidence fore the latter. Further, there is an economic parallel towards the "burying" of gold/jewels/wealth and that of "burying" wealth via a blown capital acquisition in the stock market... Same out come, different millenia. It could possibly be the same for Göbekli Tepe - It could have been a commercial site that was, well, "archived".

Are they not now saying (the current archeologists) that Karahan Tepe WAS deliberately buried? weird if that was but Gobekli Tepe was not.

It was redundant. they had determined the new polar star , so It was mothballed as the seasons where set , and the growing of food took presidency over planetary position . Once cloned it was put away not destroyed .

Each T-pillar or other large architectural stone element was cut out of the quarry by a small team of at most a dozen people, perhaps a family or clan. It seems natural that each team tried to decorate "their" pillar with sculptures. They already were producing sculpted decoration on smaller stone objects. The decoration would not increase the amount of work needed to make a pillar. Once one team had that initiative, the other teams would probably have joined in the fun, in a sort of competition. One still sees such artistic competitions between groups in the same locality, all over the world. The decoration need not have had a religious function. It may have been just what the pillar makers fancied. Thus one should be wary of drawing conclusions about their myths and religion...

i was just thinking. Couldn't it be that the site is the area where human history was reset after the great flood coz it is only 550 km from mount Arara. Perhaps that could also explain why there are so many carvings of animals on the pilars.

so cool to see the incredible things that hunter-gatherers were building. LOL

Thankyou for your honesty, much appreciated. We know all carbon dating is based on assumptions but nobody talks about that, I’d love to know what assumptions the carbon dating of Gobekli Tepe was based upon.

@Eyes_Open

3 ай бұрын

Nobody talks about a topic that you want others to believe has validity?