Boy, am I tired of hearing about Gobekli Tepe. Pardon the pun, but it’s become a monument to those who cannot distinguish speculation from data.
The truth is that no one really knows what the site was for, who built, or why it was built. No one knows the meaning of the iconography. This is getting to be the new Atlantis — take a few lines from Plato and erect a multi-volume “history” of Atlantis, complete with dissertation-length treatises on its culture, religion, architecture, science, etc. Absolute fabrication passed off as “ancient knowledge.” Enough already.
Here’s some reading material written by people who understand that having an idea in one’s head doesn’t make that idea reality:
Jason Colavito, Robert Schoch’s Wacky Easter Island-Gobekli Tepe Theory: The Hypocrisy of Alternative Dating
This one illustrates how, when Christians get on the bandwagon of awful research (and dishonesty) it destroys good will and credibility (see the second-to-last paragraph):
Pseudoarchaeology site: Gobekli Tepe
So what exactly is being questioned here? Sounds like the existence of the site itself is being questioned! Yes there have been some claims made by those with questionable credentials but a lot of solid research is being done.
I’m not an authority on anything, but such arguments as Schoch’s stretch the imagination considering the culture. That is just not how people live in my understanding. Considering that the whole Easter Island theory for years was absolutely wrong, in every way. So was Stonehenge. Stonehenge goes on for miles all over the area, it was a large complex. People just don’t live like that. If “hunter gatherer’s” had the ability to build such monstrous structures, they were not hunter gatherers. They were something else. Like the Monguls. Considering the stone structures that were built a very long time ago in America, these had to be built by people who had the means, and they had to be big because they certainly didn’t have the technology to move 30 ton lentil stones. Gobekli Tepe is not Burning Man BC I think…