Gbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization

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9. Usually there is some kind of ideology

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That binds people together into a group capable of such building projects. The ideology creates meaning and purpose to keep such projects going. Clan membership and legends about ancestors are a common unifier. But that often involves religious beliefs, like ancestor worship or supernatural origins for the ancestors. So I wouldn't rule out the hypothesis that this was a ceremonial site.

I think that archaeologists worth that title would be sifting through soil and doing chemical analyses for pollen, minerals, decomposed paints, and anything else they search for. There will be more info coming from this site and I don't think that it will take the decades that he suggests in the video. Archaeological techniques of study are pretty sophisticated.