GÖBEKLI TEPE and the Mysterious World That Buil t It | Before Cities, Before Farming

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GÖBEKLI TEPE - the world’s oldest known monumental site. Before cities. Before farming. Twelve thousand years ago, in southeastern Turkey, hunter-gatherers carved GÖBEKLI TEPE and changed the story of prehistory forever. This longform documentary explores the people, climate, and culture of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic - the age that gave rise to GÖBEKLI TEPE and its sister sites in the Taş Tepeler region. Were these truly the world’s first temples? Or were they the last monuments of a foraging world already fading away? 🕯️ The story of humanity… told softly. ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 : 00:00 - A Hill That Shouldn’t Exist 10:49 - A Thousand Years Buried 20:06 - The Landscape Before the Stones 30:12 - The Natufian Neighbors 38:29 - From Camps to Villages 48:09 - Stone Before Cities 57:45 - The Pillars in the Earth 1:06:10 - The Animal Carvings Speak 1:14:11 - The Missing Roofs 1:24:27 - Knapping in the Dust 1:33:02 - Grinding a Thousand Seeds 1:41:35 - Feast or Famine 1:50:34 - The Water Under the Hill 2:00:01 - Beads Beside the Fire 2:08:37 - The Fox and the Vulture 2:16:17 - Ritual in Stone 2:25:05 - Filling the Enclosures 2:33:31 - The World Beyond the Hill 2:41:46 - Not Farming, Yet Not Foraging 2:50:01 - When Houses Changed Forever 2:58:01 - From Pillars to Gods 3:04:47 - The Supernova in Prehistory 3:13:01 - An End, Not a Beginning ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 📌 Calm science, evolutionary psychology, no hype, no speculation - just what we know so far. Bedtime stories for burnt-out sapiens. ----------------------------------------------------- #prehistory #archaeology #historydocumentary #archaeology #ancienthistory #huntergatherers #neolithicrevolution #documentary #documentaryforsleep #humanevolution #history #göbeklitepe #prehistorichumans #acienthistory #historyforsleep #ancientcivilizations ----------------------------------------------------- ► LEAVE A COMMENT: I’d love to know what you think about this story - your thoughts, theories, or what it made you feel. Please keep it kind and thoughtful toward others! If your comment doesn’t show up right away, try rephrasing it - sometimes YouTube hides or filters comments by mistake. ----------------------------------------------------- 👉 If you enjoy this type of content, please like, subscribe, and share - it helps other curious sapiens find their way to knowledge. ---------------------------------------------------- ⭐ Sleepless Homo- Longform sleep-core documentaries about ancient humans extinct species, myth, memory, and early humanity - told softly by a tired ape with Wi-Fi. Bedtime stories for burnt-out sapiens. ----------------------------------------------------- ► REFERENCES: – Schmidt, Klaus. Sie bauten die ersten Tempel. Das rätselhafte Heiligtum am Göbekli Tepe. München: C.H. Beck, 2006. – Clare, Lee. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. A brief summary of research at a new World Heritage Site (2015–2019). DAI e-Forschungsbericht, 2020. – Peters, Joris and Schmidt, Klaus. “Animals in the symbolic world of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment.” Anthropozoologica, 2004. – Kuijt, Ian, and Nigel Goring-Morris. “Foraging, farming, and social complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the southern Levant: A review and synthesis.” Journal of World Prehistory, 2002. – Breuers, Jonas. Diachrone Studien zur Lithik des Göbekli Tepe: Locus 166, Raum 16 und die Sedimentsäule aus Gebäude D. Köln University, 2022. – Dietrich, Oliver, Notroff, Jens & Schmidt, Klaus. Feasting, Social Complexity, and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia. In Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity. Springer, 2017. – Dietrich, Oliver, Heun, Manfred, Notroff, Jens, Schmidt, Klaus & Zarnkow, Martin. The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey. Antiquity; – Clare, Lee. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey: A brief summary of research at a new World Heritage Site (2015–2019). E-Forschungsbericht des DAI 2020. ---------------------------------------------------- ► COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: This video is an educational, non-commercial production made under Fair Use. All visuals and audio are either original creations, public domain or Creative Commons materials (including Wikipedia/Wikimedia sources), or licensed royalty-free assets. Historical imagery and research are used only for educational illustration, commentary, and public knowledge - with full respect to original creators and institutions. 🟥 Most of the images shown are AI-generated and intended for illustrative purposes only. They are artistic reconstructions and may not represent exact historical appearances or events. 🕯️ This channel exists to educate, not to exploit - to bring deep time, art, and science to sleepless minds everywhere.