The Gobekli Tepe site fascinates me. I want to know all about it and how it factors into ancient history. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
me also I have been researching it for a while now my niece studied archaeology at U.Oklahoma(primarily mound builders in the u.s. is what she worked with) so as these things about Gobekli tepe came to light it caught my eye because of things me and her had discussed in the past.
In the post where I gave the link's I misspelled "Laban as Labon" but who i was speaking of was
Laban (Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia he was the son of Bethuel,son of Nahor(Abraham's brother),son of Terah as you can see in the chart. Terah,(Abrahams father) was of Nahor the son of Serug
Nahor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (so there are 2 Nahors,one the son of Serug,the other the son of Terah) then Reu,the son of Peleg,,ect. all the way back to Arpachshad
Arpachshad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ,,,the son of Seth son of Noah (I skipped from Peleg to Seth you probably know them)
Golbekle Tepe is about 350 miles from Ararat where the arc settled,following the names of the towns spoken of in the bible established by the children in Seth's blood line down to Abraham " Haran" is where Laban was from (genesis 27;43),the same city(or one beside it) is where Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for Issac (genesis 24;10),in Genesis 24;4-7 he tells his servant to go to "my country and my Kindred",,where he goes to is Nahor/Haran where Terah died and laban is now dwelling.
NAHOR - JewishEncyclopedia.com or "Haran,city of Nahor in Mesopotamia" the neighboring cities of Urfa/Ur of the Chaldees and also Golbekle Tepe also you will find interesting "Nevali Cori" also in the same area
Nevalı Çori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and
The Mystery of Nevali Cori. - YouTube in the photographs(notice the pillars are also "a man's hands wrapped around the side of the stone and a belt type Shaw,sash" the same as they found at Gobekli tepe),,search for more photo's of this also.
I do not reason through the dating process with agreement as to the date of 11-12,000 years ago,why is because biblical history does not cover this many years of history. I notice that in archeology,anthropology,ect. scientist tend to try to begin with cave men/the hunter gathers and then reason the idea that they began at some point farming,temple building,and city building(which makes some sense). They look at things like the type of tools(spearheads,arrowheads,scrapers ect.) discovery of the wheel ect. to help them make their decisions on these matters(makes some sense again).,,but
If the world began(Adam/stone age man) and they then began to learn to make the different tools,wheel,boats ect. and then there was a "great flood",,as we know there was then as soon as they got off the ark then they were "again in the stone age",so it makes more sense to me that they would find two sets of the same events and it would be easy to assume they were only one event when in fact there were two. so at Golbekle Tepe if this is after the flood,mankind again would be in the process of re-learning and so they also would be using primitive tools/weapons ect.
I see several errors in the way golbekle Tepe is being viewed one is that it is assumed that at some point it was abandoned and covered with sand. In the many photos of Gobekle Tepe many of the stone pillars are being secured with blocking to keep them from falling over. Also in the photos there are many of the walls that had fallen down and the pillars that had broken and are laying on the floor beside the other peice of the pillar it broke off of(this could not have happened if it was filled in with dirt,it would have been suspended/supported by the dirt surrounding it). In one photo there is a part of the doorway and it has a carving of a pig up-side-down it is still imbedded in the soil/wall where it fell(in the photo they are still digging it out),so it fell before it was covered with soil. So this shows sighns of a destruction of the existing structure(before it was burried) which is highly probbable
List of earthquakes in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that is the area is prone to have very large earthquakes. So it would make sense that the oldest structure was destroyed,filled in,another built,destroyed by another earthquake,again it was filled in,on and on over many years.
If this is so then when the families in the bible dwelt in this area then that whole city was not visable but rather the current structure,and the other was already covered or maybe a poetion had not yet been built. It would not make any sense that the many people mentioned in the scriptures who were from this area did not see these things(which is why it facanates me),that is abraham was 75 when he left Haran,surly he walked by these places(?)
