Complete the temple-first hypothesis.
Göbekli Tepe was built around 9600 BCE by ______ — and since some of the earliest domesticated wheat comes from within 30 km, feeding the ______ may have driven farming rather than the ______.
Word bank: hunter-gatherers · builders · reverse · kings · priests
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- The hypothesis reverses the assumed causal order.
- Gathering to build may have driven settlement rather than followed it.
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Göbekli Tepe was built around 9600 BCE by hunter-gatherers — and since some of the earliest domesticated wheat comes from within 30 km, feeding the builders may have driven farming rather than the reverse.
Contested but not crazy, and the dates are not in dispute. Perhaps we did not settle down and then build temples; perhaps we built temples and had to settle down to feed the builders.
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