10,000-Year-Old Gürcü Tepe: Is This Where It All Ended? | Ancient Architects
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- In the past few weeks I’ve been providing archaeological updates on the Taş Tepeler sites of the SE Anatolia region of Turkey. This is thanks to a presentation that was given by archaeologists in November 2022 on the Turkish language Arkaeolojihbar CZcams channel. Watch here: • #68 TAŞ TEPELER “Büyük...
The presentation provided updates on well-known sites Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, as well as Sayburç, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Sefer Tepe and Cakmaktepe but there was also another ancient site that was discussed, one that is not one of the 12 Taş Tepeler sites, and one you may never have heard of.
It’s called Gürcü Tepe, a late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa, Turkey and it consists of a number of shallow tells, or mounds, on a plain along the Sirrin Stream that flows from Sanliurfa.
It was first excavated in the 1990s by the late, great Klaus Schmidt and although excavations came to an abrupt end and most of the site is now built over, excavations recommenced in 2021 and then continued in 2022. Watch this video to find out more about this exciting ancient site.
All images and footage are taken from the arkeolojihaber CZcams channel, Google Earth and Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below.
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Hey Matt thanks as always for the updates. I have a question for you and perhaps other viewers could give their ideas.
Whenever there is an archaeological dig it's just that, digging down into the ground. I understand that we create waste and this can form layers but I also would think we would wear down places with continuous use. Yet old sites always seem to be buried deep with even older layers below. What is it that is causing these places to be buried so deeply? One would think with all the erosion and washing away of topsoil etc that these sites would be exposed, down to the bedrock but they're not. So what is constantly burying them, what's it made of, where does it come from is my question thank you?
Thanks Matt!
I have to say that it has been excellent watching the gradual transformation of your channel during the past couple of years.
While I initially enjoyed your theories; as I too am a questioner, I am so pleased that your investigations have lead you to a more technically correct approach to the archaeological/historical data.
Say Man there is an A.I. website that can do all your translations as long as you have the transcript. Using the dree site if you break up the transcript into sections so that the bot doesn't send more than 400 characters then you will het a full translation. ChatGPT.
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I've often wondered how many sites like this one have been built over to the point where we will never even know about them.
Entirety of Cairo.
imagine how many more are still just underground
That's the main issue. The other big issue is the ones under water. We still have so much to learn.
I've also wondered about how much history and archeology has been lost or destroyed/damaged by construction and/or agriculture. I know of times in the UK when building has been halted when something of historical importance has turned up but how many times has this happened and the findings been ignored to continue the project? Are there any laws in these cases? Are there any laws or protocols in other countries and how often is a potential discovery lost due to a person or people not being educated to recognise something of historical importance?
I was thinking the same thing...except for the word "never." Perhaps instead future archeologists will be saying: "This site was occupied in 7000 BC, abandoned and re-occupied from 1970 until about 2050, when it was abandoned again...probably due to climate change....
Thanks for all your hard work Matt👍
Thanks for being here
I now look forward to your long form videos. Your content, presentation and clear commitment to the subjects you cover are reassuringly well researched and heartfelt. Keep up the good work.
Oh to be 40 years younger. It would be exciting to excavate such a site. Thanks for the presentation. So much has been discovered in this area of Turkey. It sure changes what was taught in archaeology classes back in the 80-90s.
or the 60s and 70s!
Yay more stuff from Turkey. Thank you Matt ❤️🏞️❤️
Thanks for being here, Lynn.
Thanks Matt! Excellent work as usual.
This concentration of sites in Southeast Turkey is endlessly fascinating....
I haven’t even covered half of them 😬
I have admit - Turkey is beginning to eclipse Egypt as the center of archeology, in my mind anyway!
Hi Matty 👋🏻
Appreciate all these uploads from Turkey.
Have a good week kind Sir.
Hey Nancy!
I think that you are the greatest gift to archaeology because you are the most open-minded youtuber for this kind of topic, and you're making us more educated and not just getting info from ancient aliens 😉
Yes, look critically at videos about some of the media stars prominent in the study of ancient civilizations such as Hancock, Houdin, and other commentators with strong imaginations apparently not tethered completely to the sciences of archaeology.
If people are getting info from ancient aliens, then society is lost.
Another great video. Thanks for sharing all this wonderful information. I enjoy learning about our ancient past along side this amazing CZcams community.
It's so exciting to see another of these sites being discovered, especially with new artifacts! I love to see the carvings and flints. Even if we can't know who these people were, we can get an impression of their lives through these finds. Great presentation; thank you Matt for your continued work on these fascinating sites.
Things keep on getting betterer and betterer.
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The real question is when things will get the betterest.
@@chrisstockbridge3731 That question can only be answered by the science of Betteronemtology.
It such a shame that Turkey is building on these sites, or at least have been. So much history could be lost by people not knowing what the are doing. I hope better regulations are in place now, to protect these sites until all is uncovered. These sites are not only important for Turkey, but it lays te groundwork for all of civilization.
I think that there are MUCH more to discover in the area if you look after. Kudos to you to provide the informations and I hope that the sites will be discovered right.
Great stuff! However, even with a qualification in Archaeology, I found the verbal descriptions almost impossible to follow when exemplified only by photographic images. BUT when aided by the archaeologists' drawn-to-scale diagrams with legend and directional indicator, adjacent the photo, the descriptions took on a whole new dimension of understandability. I suggest this should be the standard approach.
Thanks Matt, great work keeping us informed of recent archaeology. Much better than the "lost civilization reboot" stuff, you show us close up the actual finds that paint a vivid picture of the daily lives of the people who built and occupied these sites. I was fascinated by the seated female figurine and the comparison with the one from Catal Hoyuk. This shows how long traditions of iconography can be passed down. Was there any discussion of the evidence of agriculture in the area?
As a native turkish speaker i would like to help you out with turkish to english translation . Nice video by the way
yay!! Love seeing you still producing some if the very best content anywhere! Thank you sir
I love how your videos cover such an array of archeology, it’s fascinating. Keep it up 👍
I often forget just how dry and yawn-filled a scientific presentation can be. While not a brutal slog through the information, it wasn't much better than that. I really do appreciate it when you re-package things for us, Matt. Your delivery is much more engaging.
Thank you
Had to watch it for five times myself to keep from falling asleep, and I really am interested in this stuff. Matt does a good job at packaging it in a well-framed Time.
Thank you for your translation efforts. It is so exciting to have access through your videos to the very latest archaeology and research, in a key area of the world still very at risk of loss before we modern humans can know and understand our amazing past.
This is so cool! I would love to see all these different sites placed on a timeline. They are so many more than I realized!
Thanks for taking the time/ making the effort to make this info accessible to the rest of us
Very interesting mate, thanks for covering PPN sites and do it so well👍🏻
Another great update. Thanks Matt!
Thanks Barry
Wonderful discoveries. Thx for sharing them on CZcams.
Excellent as always. An area that was a source of flints apparently was the magnet here encouraging settlement.
Great work Matt 👏👏👏
Thank you for your recent and fact based information on these sites in Turkey and surrounding areas.
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Loving the rabbit hole
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Another day with groundbreaking [no pun] archaeological news. Thanks, Matt, for your invariably interesting and well documented reports.
Amazing work these archaeologists do.
Thank you I am learning a lot on these vids.
Thanks for being here
Very interesting. Thank you.
Thanks for all of this. Very interesting and informative. It would be so cool to volunteer to help with excavations.
I just discovered on-line that in Southwest Turkey west of a bisected line between Mardin and Batman, there is Boncuklu Tarla, closeby the Tigris, which is given as 12,000 years old. Just realized you covered this site in October 2021.
I think (know) there are MUCH more to find if the ororities just give permission to dig. Great episode Matt.
Thanks for watching
@@AncientArchitects It's all my pleaseurse
Thank you
Question
The google earth image with site placement looks like every site is at the edge of a lowland area. If rainfall was higher could the lowlands have been a large lake?
Seems like the older Tepes were on the high ground because the Haran plain was a lake. After thousand or so years the lake water subsided leaving fertile area for crops. Gurcutepe people moved in with the agricultural knowledge passed down from Gobeklitepe.
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏
If you owned a home there you could dig a hole in your basement and uncover a priceless artifact that a museum would pay a pretty penny for.
Yay you are the Tepe Master, Ancient Architects!
A note from a builder on the use of the T shaped pillars as roof supports.....
The arms of the T would only really be as decoration.... They're not useful as structural support as the arms have no vertical support under them - you wouldn't want an arm shearing off and bringing the roof down.... Only what is above the pillar colomn is strong - and that depends upon how well set into the ground they are!
Every time you post a video...I watch it while I eat supper 😁
A possible/probable reason for the abandonment of these large sites is the “8200 kiloyear event” (that is 6200 BC), a sudden global cooling and drought, lasting around 2-300 years. It lead to the PN, the pottery neolithic
I'm looking forward to the video on Tepe Tepe.
I think this new discoveries shows to us , the "civilization" started earlier, but I wonder, this new discoveries are very interesting, what difference does it make ? I recognize, our knowledge expanding with every archeological findings. My question is, how does it change our life ?
We gain the knowledge that we could also experience a cataclysmic event at anytime. Maybe some people would think differently about what is important in life. And we can justify expenditures like where they are storing seeds of plants from all over the world.
Nice, real NICE
Enjoy!
What people fail to realize is that the end of the last Ice Age was the worst environmental disaster man has ever faced.
How about cataclysm? Do you even know Randall Carlson.
Ever wondered where "Halloween" comes from?
Do these sites relate in any way to the earlier Mohanjodaro sites that some claim to be 8,000 years od?
A question in relation to the google earth map with all the neolithic sites: Do you know of a map of the landscape around 10800 BP ? The climate must have been different and so was maybe the flooding of valleys and marshes of the area. This could be of interest to understand the relation of the sites.
Wow
just wondering if the Vonich Manuscript can be tied back to Turkey, i know its a different timeline but some of the language is from old language in turkey and it seems to be about agriculture
@ancient architects: Boncuklu Tarla next?
if you think it was filled in by natural slides, where did the material come from? Look at the hill and notice that there is nothing above it, so where did the slide material come from? Id had to have been put there. If it had been a slide there should be a hill above the lever of the top of the mound, but there isn't. How does material roll uphill?
Hellwing is such a cool name!! 😂❤
Soooooo many Tepes!
What i think the Turkish archaeologists should do is invite students studying archaeology to come and help excavate all the sites they have in full. If the majority of Gobekli Tepe is still buried along with Karahan Tepe, you would think that the Turkish authorities would want it all excavating as soon as possible, once its all been fully excavated and roads and so on have been put in and the sites have been protected from the elements then the real tourism of people seeing these places will really take off. This in turn will help the Turkish to do more work at uncovering more sites, if you type into google earth Ciftekoz it will take you to a little village on the top end of the Euphrates River and if you look east of this village the road on the river there is 2 mounds with a solar farm to the right hand side of the mounds, i wonder if anything is buried underneath those...
It depends on whose desk such a request lands on. Modern Turks, regardless of their genetic heritage, identify with the conquering race of Turks who arrived in the 11th Century and not so much with the pre-Turkic populations of Anatolia. Then it depends on how seriously they take Islam. Mohammedans tend to regard ancient ruins as worthless remnants of pre-Islamic ignorance. Still, Turkey was proudly secular until fairly recently and, I expect, the educated classes still are. I sincerely hope they DO get behind full excavation and protection.
@@oltyret i watch another channel called Geonomad look where the R1a and R1b lineages reside 12,000 years ago on that channel...
'Barbecue Hellwing' sounds like a fantasy Fire 🔥 Dragon 🐲 name.
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Where are they getting this history from? Have they found written records? Or did they just make it up?
20:38 .. Looks like a hand grinding or pounding tool for nuts or grain.
A nut cracker? A meat tenderizer? A garlic press?
K10, the flint knapping place-humanity’s first hazardous waste.
The story of our Humanity is being explored, but in Turkey my lands-people are busy making some money building over archeological sites.
These are great candidates for eminent domain, as callous as that sounds.
A Heirarchy would have existed Maybe like the Aztec it became impossible for the workers and hunters to supply food to the elites so they simply revolted and left
Why all these places are in the mountains and nothing of that in the plain? Seems like all these settlements once were located northly around a big lake... ???
Re: 0:50 Yeah, that's easy for *you* to say!
Eastern island same
so this period of history closed at 8 000 B.C. It must be the bridge between the disaster of the YD B event>> Younger Dryas Boundary event>>> the Great Flood// comet near. destroyer of earth.....and what followed...is this where agriculture took over ??
Funny, it came after Gobekli Tepe but there does not seem to any architecture improvement. Let alone some stone pillars like Gobekli Tepe
She sounds like she knows where the Ark is hidden.
How many "Tepe's" is this so far!? 10?
I haven’t even covered half of them 😂
Two minutes in and there's an ad.
would it be in keeping woth history vpurhaps they were in transition after the Death of their leader .
Maybe it's the settlements of Hattians or Hurrians or the beginning of their kingoms
When the paper-boy is half an hour late.
Great!
Becoming overly attached to unsustainable Red Meat may have contributed to the demise of these civilizations.
More notably the cannibalism of the Aztecs greatly contributed to their demise.
How many wars were fought with one notable reason the seizure of resources to facilitate the Red Meat diet?
Thank you for sharing informative videos!
Hahahahahaha
Vegans are like aa graduates of the 12 step program.
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Just as animals have sometimes hunted to extinction it is possible that game animals were sometimes over-hunted many thousands of years ago. Similarly overgrazing is not unusual and has probably occurred at different times for many thousands of years.
Peoples accepting a more vegetarian diet has also been possible for thousands of years. (The Brokpa tribe of Ladakh)
But the Red Meat diet has often had a special attraction. However the Red Meat diet is usually an added expense.
Long time
Are the local farmers now aware that there may be ancient settlements below them ??, Or, do they need the farmland to live and history must come in second place??
Thanx again 👍🏼
When you consider how much Neolithic & Bronze Age Archaeology has been almost ploughed out of existence in Britain, especially in Wiltshire, the gently implied criticism of the ''local farmers'' may seem a bit harsh?
I think one of the biggest obstacles will be displacing people. What subsistence farmer wants to give up his field for archaeology?
12000
Did she just say “Rammed Earth” architecture?? As in rammed earth walls??
looks like the lithic technology is degraded from Gobekli type, although that can be from many factors.
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Wait! Are you saying advanced civilization didn't die off in a cataclysm?!?! 😱 imagine my shock.
I imagine that the people wiped out by the various cataclysms during the Younger Dryas period probably thought of themselves as pretty advanced. And survivors probably were not prepared to regroup. And there were no drip-coffee makers. So there’s that.
@@myboloneyhasafirstname6764 What people? Where's your evidence? And what "cataclysmic event"? Where's your evidence?
@@_MikeJon_ The ones that were drowned, ground up, vaporized, frozen, pick your catastrophe from the following list: Meltwater Pulse 1, Meltwater Pulse 2, Mt. Tobo eruption, Burkle Meteor Impact in the Indian Ocean and subsequent global tsunami, just to name a few. The sea level 14,000 years ago was 400+ feet lower than now, so when these immense, (and proven) events occurred they would kick off a chain reaction of seismic, volcanic, hydrologic, climactic (because of interruption of ocean currents and the jet stream) effects all over the planet. So people were in peril. When you consider how much we humans love to live on the coast, the many tsunamis and floods wiped out buildings and people and roads and elephants and bunnies and…you get the picture. “Advanced” is a subjective notion. Human populations all over the world had been growing steadily, developing technologies (my favorite example is making string, attributable to Neanderthal people 100,000 yrs ago), and we managed to advance successfully for hundreds of thousands of years AND avoid the internal combustion engine. So the whole cataclysm scenario is nothing strange. It’s just geology and anthropology. If you want to see something crazy, search CZcams for Scablands in Eastern Washington, Lake Missoula, Lake Bonneville, etc. there are some jaw dropping simulations of the IMMENSE walls of water emanating from underneath the Cordalarian (sp?) ice sheet. And this while people were living there!
@@myboloneyhasafirstname6764 Yeah so I live in Washington state. I've been to the dryfalls, scablands and the grand Coulee dam. I've also talked to geologists about this subject. There's also great CZcams channels on it I can point you to which explain it.
The Younget dryas impact hypothesis is certainly possible. However contradictory evidence basically debunk a singular event. The Missoula flood happened many times over hundreds and thousand of years. Additionally; another point people use is the Carolina Bays but those are not impact sites. They're thermokarst lakes. They too vastly range in age. I know you didn't bring that up but it's relevant.
The time in which the Missoula flood event happened was also a time in which clovis and other paleo-Indians inhabited all parts of North America. Sites in Canada, USA and Mexico. I believe they've even found evidence in South America if I remember correctly. Point being; the Clovis people inhabited those areas before, during and after the Younger dryas. At no point did they disappear. In fact there's clear evidence they intermingled and overlapped with the folsom culture.
Then other paleo-Indians as well. The notion that people "only live on the costs" is clearly not the case. The biggest Clovis sites are always found inland. However I'm sure that native people witnessed the Missoula event, no doubt. But they would've been on par in technology with all the surrounding paleo-Indians. I.E using stone tools and primarily nomadic.
MP1B was also not instantaneous. It happened over a 500 year span. People living on the coasts would have had ample time to notice the rise and act accordingly.
The Toba eruption was 75,000 years ago and certainly impacted ancient humans but not quite a cataclysm in so far as its related to the younger dryas. Nevertheless it and none of the ones you mentioned impacted a "civilization." For people of that time were not really building permanent structures. Mostly living in caves and or living a nomadic lifestyle.
@@myboloneyhasafirstname6764 Oh and something I'd like to add.
Often I hear the argument "people always live on the coasts." However nearly all of the civilizations they will point to as proof of a "lost advanced high technology." Do not. Egypt, Inca, Göbekli Tepe, Mayan, Aztec, and so on. Clearly not "on the coasts."
Though I appreciate you not making that sort of lost high technology claim. Advanced for ancients is absolutely subjective, you're totally right. But they did not have power tools lol.
Looks like the ‘Bread Basket of the World theory was just off a bit. Now it looks like somewhere in modern Turkey. Hmmm.
That’s not in the Scriptures.
The Gap theory matches Scripture in that the world recovered from a great cataclysm, THEN it was recovered. Other homosapiens such as the denisovans existed before Genesis. It was always arrogant of man to think God's creation only started with him.
All of these recent discoveries of ancient civilizations proves the Christian Belief of 6,000 years since creation is totally fictional.
Hopefully more and more Christians will move to the 'Gap' theory. It explains that Genesis only picks up the history after the great catyclism that reformed the surface of the earth. Other forms of mankind lived before Adam. New discoveries match this, showing that homosapiens such as denisovans lived before modern man.
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Looks like a molar, that’s gonna hurt getting yanked😂
What a vile government to allow this atrocious destruction.
Montana megaliths. You're welcome.
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Hey Merlin
9th, 10 January 2023
what a shame...........
Arisen not arose (grammar)!
Sorry, just can't listen to that accent. I apologize.
It helped me to listen at 1.75 speed.
That’s ok. I respect your honesty without being insulting. 👍
No judgement here. Not everybody is an adept speaker.
I skip this one .
No you won t
Like straight away. Please, use Türkiye as well. No more Turkey.
How do you pronounce it?