The oldest buildings in the world have existed for thousands of years and some are still in use. Their remains are used to ...

Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced ... of ancient flint tools Schmidt had ever seen ...

“It was clear right away this was a gigantic Stone Age site,” he told Smithsonian ... now known as Göbekli Tepe or “Potbelly Hill” in Turkish. A year after his initial visit, the ...

Göbekli Tepe is one of several enigmatic ancient sites discovered in the dusty hills around Şanlıurfa in modern-day Turkey, close to the border with Syria. It features a complex of stone ...

Nearly 13,000 years ago, carvings were etched into a large stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Gobekli Tepe, a prehistoric cultic site in Turkey, has sparked debates about the transition from nomadic to sedentary life. The site, inhabited from 9,500 to at least 8,000 BC, may have served as ...

Lithic Technology, Vol. 48, Issue. 3, p. 253. The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret ...

Animal symbols, such as those used at Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey, represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to mark dates and events such as comet strikes, analysis from ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

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