Practice question · Put in order
Order these prehistoric milestones, oldest first.
- The first stage of Stonehenge is built
- Farming villages spread across Anatolia and the Levant
- Stonehenge’s sarsen circle is completed
- Wheat is domesticated in the Fertile Crescent
- Göbekli Tepe’s pillar rings are raised by foragers
Hints
- The monumental temple precedes domesticated cereals.
- That inversion is what overturned the textbook sequence.
Show the answer
- Göbekli Tepe’s pillar rings are raised by foragers
- Wheat is domesticated in the Fertile Crescent
- Farming villages spread across Anatolia and the Levant
- The first stage of Stonehenge is built
- Stonehenge’s sarsen circle is completed
Why
Note the first two lines. The temple is older than the wheat, which is exactly the fact that broke the textbook.
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