9600 BC TURKEY GOBEKLI TEPE
Monumental T-shaped limestone pillars, some carved with animal relief, raised in circular enclosures on a hilltop in upper Mesopotamia. Radiocarbon dating places the earliest exposed structures between roughly 9500 and 9000 BC, at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, centuries before pottery, writing or the wheel and well before agriculture was established in the region.
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- Date — 9,600 BC
- Where — Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. 37.2231, 38.9224 — site
- Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO
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