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3,000 Years OLDER Than #Göbekli-Tepe: 14,500-Year-Old Largest Natufian Enclosure

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75,539 views 1 May 2024 #göbeklitepe #ancientarchitects #karahantepe
Karahan Tepe is one of the most mind-blowing sites of the ancient world, with origins dating back to around 11,400 years ago.

The size and scale of the settlement is impressive, but the architectural feats are what really excite the imagination. They are incredible – intricate, carefully planned and well-made. They were built by people who knew exactly what they were doing.

But how did they know how to do it?

It looks like they had a well-planned, well-developed, tried and tested method of construction, and obviously it worked, because we know the building was in use for many generations, and the key structural elements still survive today, thousands of years later.

Some claim the enclosures appeared almost as if by magic, with the people of ancient Anatolia transitioning from primitive hunter-gatherers to gifted engineers and builders, almost overnight. It like more advanced people came to teach the primitive people how to do it.

But as I’ve showed over the past few years on this channel, there was no giant leap in knowledge, and there are many pre-cursor sites all over the Fertile Crescent and beyond.

Wadi Hammeh 27 is one such site. It dates back to 14,500 years ago, meaning it's 3,000 years older than Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe. Experts believed it was a kind of base camp to the ancient Natufian people, a forerunner of the sedentary settlements we find in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

In this video, I'm going to take a look at Structure 2 in Wadi Hammeh 27, and compare it to Structure AD of Karahan Tepe, to hopefully show how people already had the skills, technology and knowhow to build complex structures, thousands of years before Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:28 Karahan Tepe Overview
1:47 Why T-Shaped Pillars?
2:03 Reconstructing the Roofs
3:18 Astronomical Observatory?
4:39 Join me in Turkiye!
4:53 Ancient Technology and Knowhow
5:41 Teachers from a Lost Civilization?
6:03 Evolution Through the Ice Age
7:00 Wadi Hammeh 27
11:32 Wadi Hammeh 27 Structure 2
13:57 Comparisons to Karahan Tepe
14:50 Natufians Were Builders
15:40 The Stone Art of Wadi Hammeh
17:54 Life Before Gobekli Tepe
19:53 Concluding Remarks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59VkitNYMko

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Before #GöbekliTepe | #BoncukluTarla | Exclusive Site Exploration & Museum Visit | #Megalithomania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qp9XhisFqE

On the upper reaches of the Tigris river in Turkey are several archaeological sites that predate Göbekli Tepe including one that could be up to 13,000 years old. This is Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field), where excavations have revealed 30 residential houses, 6 public structures and the skeletons of 130 individuals. More than 100,000 beads, and shaped raw copper have been unearthed (also found at nearby Gre Filla Höyük). Much of this is on display at Mardin Museum which is investigated in this video. The square enclosures at the site are up to 30 feet wide and contain standing stones about 5 feet tall, some of the earliest megaliths on the planet. Notably, one enclosure has a holed stone in its wall, just like we find at #KarahanTepe and Göbekli Tepe. Could this be evidence of very early astronomical observations? Boncuklu Tarla, like many of the earliest sites in Turkey, was buried beneath a mound with finds dating from nearly 13,000 to 9,000 years old (Epipaleolithic period through to the Late pre-pottery Neolithic B).

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#Geometry of the #Goddess at #GöbekliTepe and #KarahanTepe pt.1 | #HughNewman | #Megalithomania 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5AqNBdrrDQ

Hugh shares new research from southeast Anatolia, looking at the time before Göbekli Tepe, how the site came into being and how geometric principles found in British stone circles are also found here and at Karahan Tepe. Hugh and JJ Ainsworth discovered a Winter Solstice alignment at Karahan Tepe and this is detailed with new research in this lecture. This led JJ to deciphering symbols at this site and others, revealing goddess cults throughout the ‘Tas Tepeler’ region. Part 2 (with JJ) will be available to watch soon.

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#KarahanTepe | #Megalithic Supercivilization 11,400 Years Ago | New 3D Scans | #Megalithomania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQZLKd5nvY

More discoveries are being made at Karahan Tepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site located in the Tektek mountains in Sanliurfa Province, Turkey. It is the sister site to Gobekli Tepe and dates from 11,400 - 10,200 years ago. The main elliptical enclosure is 75f feet wide (Structure AD) and consists of 17 or 18 upright pillars in its perimeter (5 carved from bedrock), and two huge T-Pillars (now fallen) in its centre. An adjacent enclosure is called the Pillar Shrine (Structure AB) measuring 7m by 6m and containing 10 upright phallic-shaped monoliths carved from bedrock, a free-standing stone, as well as a protruding head with a serpentine neck on its western wall. On its southeastern edge, a carved hole, shaped from bedrock, leads into the main enclosure. It is through this, that the winter solstice sunrise light beams through illuminating the stone head over a 27 minute period. In this video, Hugh Newman, Andrew Collins and JJ Ainsworth explore the site pointing out some remarkable anomalies that are completely overlooked by archaeologists, including evidence of a lost language carved in bedrock, the unfinished 18ft monolith, goddess symbolism, the connection to the Sumerian Anunnaki and more. Includes exclusive 3D Lidar Scans revealing hidden details not seen before.