12,000 year old pre-agricultural temple findings - Gobekli Tepe

by jackchristopher on 3/26/2009, 5:07 PM with 5 comments
  • by tokenadult on 3/26/2009, 8:07 PM

    Wikipedia article on the temple:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

    Is anyone else troubled by the submitted article coming from Fortean Times? That's not usually considered a reliable source, as it doesn't fact-check the way many other publications would.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean_Times

  • by idm on 3/27/2009, 1:22 AM

    These time scales do cause one to consider: what is the lifetime of SGML, HTML, XML, RDF, ... How have those Gutenberg typefaces held up? I was in a British church last year, and the floors were made of carved granite, which were completely illegible.... People walking on the floors for centuries caused gradual wear.

    Chiseled granite!! What names or words were written? I don't know, but 12,000 years is a long time to propagate a certain signal... This causes one to consider...

  • by on 3/26/2009, 5:56 PM

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  • by rjurney on 3/27/2009, 11:05 AM

    This is a must-read.

  • by on 3/26/2009, 7:22 PM

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