Newsweek: Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History.
”The site isn’t just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture — the first embers of civilization.”
Comments:
I was expecting Hal (my friendly neighborhood archaeo-expert) to take this one down. I was concerned because of the source (Newsweek).
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 03/05/10 at 12:13 PM
Hi Garret, thanks so much for sharing this. Then I went to the comments in Reddit, and really gained a lot there. What an education! I APPRECIATE IT!
Posted by Evelyn on 03/06/10 at 11:38 PM
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I believe it was Metafilter (maybe Reddit?) where a user posted a rather astute takedown of the “this changes everything!” angle Newsweek had taken on this topic.
5 min later: ah yes, here it is.