I’m not really in a position to contradict anybody on this topic, but I can’t seem to Google up any info about Jerico that supports that claim, unless you expand your window of “around that time” by a couple of thousand years. I am prepared to be wrong about this, and will keep looking. Regardless, I am still having a hard time imagining a supposedly pre-writing, pre-pottery, literally stone age civilization building something like Gobekli Tepe. In an admittedly naive framing, if you just look at Gobekli Tepe, it seems more extensive and sophisticated than anything we see for another 4000 years or so, when the Sumerians start building their cities.
As for the relevance of the link I posted, you’re right, I debated whether to include the link at all. I decided to include it because it does constitute evidence for a significant, environment-shifting celestial event occurring within that window of time.
Wikipedia says so, but doesn’t provide a supporting reference.
With respect to Gobeliki Tepe, keep in mind that it was not a town, that is, not where people lived. The best guess is that it was some sort of a spiritual/religious/temple kind of place.
But in any case, haven’t we’ve been doing “How could those savages have built THAT?!??” since XIX century England and Stonehenge..?
I’m not really in a position to contradict anybody on this topic, but I can’t seem to Google up any info about Jerico that supports that claim, unless you expand your window of “around that time” by a couple of thousand years. I am prepared to be wrong about this, and will keep looking. Regardless, I am still having a hard time imagining a supposedly pre-writing, pre-pottery, literally stone age civilization building something like Gobekli Tepe. In an admittedly naive framing, if you just look at Gobekli Tepe, it seems more extensive and sophisticated than anything we see for another 4000 years or so, when the Sumerians start building their cities.
As for the relevance of the link I posted, you’re right, I debated whether to include the link at all. I decided to include it because it does constitute evidence for a significant, environment-shifting celestial event occurring within that window of time.
Wikipedia says so, but doesn’t provide a supporting reference.
With respect to Gobeliki Tepe, keep in mind that it was not a town, that is, not where people lived. The best guess is that it was some sort of a spiritual/religious/temple kind of place.
But in any case, haven’t we’ve been doing “How could those savages have built THAT?!??” since XIX century England and Stonehenge..?