The Secret Under Gobekli Tepe: The Shepherds Knew First.
It is just the bare fact that people were walking over history and they did not even realize it. These stones had been used over the years as normal rocks by local shepherds. This is because they did not know that they were sitting on something big.
Then archeologists appeared--and all was different.
In Gobekli Tepe, they discovered large stone pillars which were more than 10,000 years old. That is even older than the pyramids. The shocking part? Those who constructed them were mere hunters. Cities, no; machines, no; and yet they created something great.
It doesn't stop there.
Near at hand is Karahan Tepe and this is even older--about 12,000 years. It has queer carvings and sunk deep stone rooms. It appears to be a worshiping place and not a relatable living place.
And it all came about in the Younger Dryas, when the world was very cold and harsh. It was hard to live--but man was creating.
So what does this mean?
Perhaps, it is not so much that people initially constructed farms then constructed temples. Perhaps they erected temples at first--and that compelled them to make themselves permanent.
Suppose that that is the case, then we may have the entire narrative of the ancient civilization incorrect.