Chapter 724 Garden of Eden? Origin of Agriculture
Göbekli Tepe was originally a megalithic site that should not have existed.
Why do you say this?
The knowledge that Ye Zhen gave everyone before came into play.
“According to our current mainstream science and history.
12,000 years ago, it was still in the Paleolithic Age.
At that time, our human ancestors were still in the era of hunting and gathering.
The same was true for the ancients who built the first generation of Göbekli Tepe.
They were also in the Paleolithic Age.
You need to move around.
Let us ignore for the moment how the ancients 12,000 years ago mined, transported and placed these huge stones.
This project alone requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
It can’t be built in a day.
So this is a long-term project.
That’s the problem.
Where did so many like-minded primitive humans come from?
They also worked together regardless of everything.
No hunting and no picking have been working together for more than ten years.
Build Göbekli Tepe.
What do you think this is? ”
People in the Paleolithic Age had to work hard to stay hungry.
How do you have time to build Göbekli Tepe?
It is better to pick more wild fruits.
If they all went to build this Gobekli Tepe.
Who will hunt? Who will pick the wild fruits?
It comes to mind when there is an audience.
“Could agriculture have emerged at that time?”
“Agriculture started from Göbekli Tepe.”
“It is indeed possible. ”
“It was because of the surplus food that they started building Göbekli Tepe. ”
But the problem came again.
What is the purpose of spending so much manpower and material resources to build this thing?
Some archaeologists are also thinking about what Ye Zhen said.
“It is now recognized that agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent of Western Asia.”
“Northern Turkey is also in this place.”
"This is the first place in the world where wheat was grown."
"Could this really be the place where agriculture originated?"
Foreign paleoanthropologists also have something to say.
“The Agricultural Revolution is actually the first revolution.”
“It’s just that everyone subconsciously ignores it.”
"If there had been no agricultural revolution, there would have been no human villages."
"There would have been no city-states and everything that followed."
If humans had always been in a state of hunting.
Won’t settle down in one place at all.
There would be no birth of villages and city-states.
Not to mention the first industrial revolution that followed.
Professor Yan Xin thinks, "Could Göbekli Tepe be the birthplace of human agriculture."
"Otherwise, so many people would live here."
< br>“Eating, drinking and urinating every day is a problem.”
“Where does food come from?”
From 3 million to 10,000 years ago, it was always in the Paleolithic Age.
At that time, primitive ancient humans had always been making hammered stone tools.
There has been no progress for three million years.
Why haven’t there been any other buildings left in these three hundred thousand years?
Only their bones and stone tools remain.
Because they live a nomadic life, they will never settle down.
They all live in caves.
I see news from time to time now, on certain caves and rock walls.
You can see the murals left by primitive humans at that time.
Even if they can build houses.
It is also built with some trees and grass.
It doesn’t take three million years, but tens of thousands of years for these things to decay and disappear.
So we won’t find any Paleolithic buildings.
It has not been discovered since ancient times.
Only Göbekli Tepe. This Paleolithic structure appears.
Something unreasonable has appeared.
The primitive ancients at that time did not have such construction technology at all.
There are no such conditions to build.
Ye Zhen then introduced Göbekli Tepe.
"Do you all think that agriculture might have been born here?
According to logic, there is indeed only enough food.
To feed so many people and get so many people out of work They can still live on.
But the strange thing is here
Smit was digging nearby for a long time.
No trace of human life was found.
In other words, there is no village or the like nearby.
But the earliest wild wheat was found nearby.
That is, dogtail grass. ”
Hearing Ye Zhen’s words, Göbekli Tepe may indeed be the origin of agriculture.
Because wild wheat was actually found here?
Isn’t wheat the earliest crop cultivated by humans?
Hearing this, some paleoanthropologists were also confused.
“There are no traces of human life nearby?”
“That means they need to leave here after finishing their work every day.”
"Isn't this a waste of time!?"
Generally speaking, construction is such a laborious work.
They should all live nearby.
Eating, drinking and having diarrhea nearby.
Anyone who has done farm work knows this.
It is very common to build a small house or something near a field.
But there is none here at Göbekli Tepe.
Professor Zhou touched his chin in deep thought in the dark tent.
“If Göbekli Tepe was the birthplace of agriculture.”
“There should be a gathered village.”
"Where agriculture was born, there were the earliest villages."
"But there are none there? This is really too abnormal."
Old Wu guessed using his previous professional knowledge.
"Could this be a place for worship?"
"It is a religious place."
"Or is it a cemetery?"
Old Wu's guessed answer is probably correct.
Si Xiaoping studies folk customs and megalithic civilization.
This can be said to be his area of expertise.
He has studied all the megalithic civilizations cited by Ye Zhen.
But he had never heard of Göbekli Tepe.
"The guess you mentioned, Mr. Wu, is indeed possible."
"Only religion can make people build without hesitation and risk everything."
Si Xiaoping also thinks this is a place of sacrifice.
But if this is a place of worship.
Why does it need to be built multiple times?
Ye Zhen said that Göbekli Tepe has multiple layers.
Those built in the previous generation will be buried.
Then a new stone circle was built on the old stone circle.
This approach is unprecedented.
If it was a temple for worship, why did it need to be buried?
This doesn’t make sense at all.
Very strange.
Si Xiaoping has come into contact with many megalithic civilizations, none of which are as strange as Göbekli Tepe.
It’s just Saint Celia in the Vatican.
There are different views on Göbekli Tepe.
Why so few people knew about this place before Ye Zhen said it.
Because it is the church that has blocked this information.
They once doubted whether this was the Garden of Eden recorded in the Bible.
(End of this chapter)