Posts Tagged ‘archaeology’

May 20th, 2011

Religion first, then civilization

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For years, the German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt has been excavating an 11,600-year-old assemblage of carved pillars at Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey. His discoveries, reports Charles C. Mann in National Geographic, are making some question whether it was religion that first prompted humans to settle down and start civilizing themselves.

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