Gobekli Tepe is an archeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region in modern Turkey‚ about seven miles northeast of Sanliurfa. Gobekli Tepe is dated to have been built around 12 KYA‚ placing it in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period (2) and being abandoned at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolthic B Era‚ about 8 KYA (1). The site drew interest because of a collection of large limestone pieces in the shape of T’s speculated to be the world’s first temple (2). It is well known that this
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of life? The province of Urfa in southeastern Turkey has come to be known as the cradle of human civilization. It has been discovered that nearly 12‚000 years ago‚ people banded together and built this magnificent complex of a Stone Temple (Göbekli Tepe). This structure is the world’s oldest known religious structure. It is not the size or the depth of these structures that is remarkable‚ but the carvings and sketches that are on them and their age. What is amazing is that prehistoric people
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article’s title is the Sanctuary published in December 19th to 26th in the year 2011. The origin version title is the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean. It was about the world’s oldest temple built 11‚500 years ago at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. Batuman embarks on a pilgrimage to the Gobelki Tepe temple where she finds much ancient memoirs concerning the way of life of the Neolithic man. She tries to analyse the Neolithic man‚ but her experience is quite captivating to the reader. The explanations that Batuman
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Catal Huyuk Formal Analysis Catal Huyuk‚ a community village believed to have exist sometime between 6500 ’ 5500 BCE‚ is the largest Neolithic site currently preserved‚ and‚ furthermore‚ the only village of its kind that has been recorded in history. Catal Hulk is located in the south of Analtolia‚ which is referred to now as modern day Turkey. As far as preservation goes‚ Catal Hulk has withstood the test of time in fairly good condition ’ after 8‚000 years the site was discovered in decent
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“Pre-agricultural man operated in tune with nature […] while after the massive social and economic transformation […] the agricultural man was at war‚ bound to a futile effort to dominate natures processes. Where man the hunter had been free; man the farmer was now in chains” (Shard 1974:165). The Neolithic revolution was characterized by a shift among humans from a hunter-gather lifestyle to an agrarian culture allowing humans to exercise control over their environment and develop the complex societies
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in Southeastern Turkey‚ about 15 km from Sanliurfa‚ an ancient city which was also referred to as "City of the prophets‚" is Gobekli Tepe‚ the oldest man-made temple founded today (2). It dates back to 10‚000 BCE‚ and was discovered by Klaus Schmidt beginning with his excavations in 1995 with his team from the German Archeological Institute. The time period of Gobekli Tepe was put under category of the Pre-pottery Neolithic A Period‚ dating from 9600-7300 BCE (1). Schmidt explains‚ based
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were bent to the demands of technology.” (Childe 1954:23-4)‚ is now directly challenged by what archaeologist Klaus Schmidt is determining from the excavation of Gobekli Tepe; “that far from causing sedentism‚ agriculture actually responded to it.” (James 2007:784). The archaeological fieldwork surrounding the excavation site of Gobekli Tepe‚ the world’s oldest man-made temple‚ brings forth no evidence of an organized‚ socioeconomic settlement that supported the labor necessary to construct such a grand
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The vampire myth came from a Dracula character in a movie. The guy that acted like Dracula was Romanian Prince Vlad Tepes. He was born in 1431 ‚ he died in 1476. He modeled some aspects of the Dracula character. In Romania‚ Tepes is viewed not as blood-drinking sadist‚ but as a national hero who defended his empire from the Ottoman Turks. Holy water and sunlight are supposed to kill some vampires. Some Gothic people dress up as vampires. They decorate their home in a dark Victorian gloom. They even
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Count Dracula and Vlad Tepes “Dracula” is a book written by Bram Stoker that was inspired by Vlad Tepes‚ which causes some confusion about where fact ends and fiction begins. The two undoubtedly share some similarities. For example‚ they are both in positions of nobility. Before becoming a vampire Dracula was a prince and Vlad was a voivode. They are both also from Transylvania‚ although “Dracula” does not take place entirely in Transylvania. Although there are elements of Tepes in the character of
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My Life as a Hunter-Gatherer My name is Guadalaptue and I will be talking about my everyday life here in my village of Nesorara. I have a beautiful wife named Keara and two children by the names of Nevaeh and Molly. Since girls are frowned upon to work‚ I am the workingman of the family. I hunt animals such as wild boar‚ deer and bear and pick berries. My family has to set up camp wherever food is most available at the time‚ so we move around depending on the weather. Today‚ the men that
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