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Göbekli Tepe is a fascinating mystery, but I think that Klaus Schmidt is assuming too much in what Newsweek quoted (misquoted?). Religion probably played a major role in whatever was going on at/around Göbekli Tepe, but his whole argument is based on assumptions about the carvings, the implausible lack of local settlements, and the motives/worldview of neolithic people whose society is much less well understood than nearly any other known human society.

By Prof.Pedant (not verified) on 25 Feb 2010 #permalink