10,000 Grinding Stones Found at Göbekli Tepe: A Centre of Food Processing? | Ancient Architects

The more you read and learn about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, the more you’re surprised about just how advanced post-Younger Dryas Hunter-Gatherer communities were in Ancient Anatolia. These people were planning large projects and completing them to extremely high standards, which shows organisation within communities. But at Gobekli Tepe, there are still no signs of domesticated grains and so full-scale agriculture was still a future development. Still, many commentators suggest Göbekli Tepe could not have been the work of mere hunter-gatherers, even though the evidence suggests otherwise. I believe we now need to stop thinking in a binary fashion, that there were Hunter-gatherers and then farmers. There is the grey area in between and Göbekli Tepe and many Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites fall into this. You could say that these people were like proto-farmers.