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In the farmlands of southeastern Turkey there is a hill that rises out of the landscape. Unlike the surrounding plateaus, it has a gentle slope like a mound. At its top is a depression which looks like a belly button, hence the name Gobekli Tepe which means “potbelly hill.”
The following manuscript will soon be submitted for peer-review to an academic journal. It is reproduced here with the permission of the journal. Please see the acknowledgments section for proper attribution of ideas. ABSTRACT Gobekli Tepe is a.
Nearly 13,000 years ago millions of people and animals were wiped out and the world plunged abruptly into a new ice-age. Known as the Younger Dryas event. It was more than a thousand years before the climate and mankind recovered.