>> But I do definitely know this: some time in 8000 BC the creators of Gobekli Tepe buried their great structures under tons of rubble. They entombed it. We can speculate why. Did they feel guilt? Did they need to propitiate an angry God? Or just want to hide it?’ Klaus was also fairly sure on one other thing. ‘Gobekli Tepe is unique.’
> I think it'd be rather hard for a hunter gatherer society to realistically cover such a large area under tons of rubble.
I'd also be interested in knowing how they know the creators of Gobekli Tepe where the ones who buried it. Maybe their neighbors didn't like them, or maybe it was their now-farming descendants moving the temple to somewhere better suited to growing their crops. These sort of sites tend to have several generations of societies using them, often hostile to the previous cultures (eg. the vandalism of Egyptian temples by their later occupants).
> I think it'd be rather hard for a hunter gatherer society to realistically cover such a large area under tons of rubble.
I'd also be interested in knowing how they know the creators of Gobekli Tepe where the ones who buried it. Maybe their neighbors didn't like them, or maybe it was their now-farming descendants moving the temple to somewhere better suited to growing their crops. These sort of sites tend to have several generations of societies using them, often hostile to the previous cultures (eg. the vandalism of Egyptian temples by their later occupants).