“the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization” “The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza.” Stone pillars cannot be carbon dated unless there are pieces of wood embedded in them, which our illustrious author doesn’t mention, neither does he mention any evidence supporting this his claim to the age of Gobeki Tepe. Smells like BS.

“Eleven millennia ago nobody had digital imaging equipment, of course”. No shit, we didn’t have it 30 years ago, thanks for enlightening us…

“On the ground he saw flint chips—huge numbers of them. “Within minutes of getting there,” Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past.” Eghm, shouldn’t those chips be covered by meters thick layer of soil after 11+ thousand years? Egyptian sphynx had to be dug up, and it’s supposedly half as old, how could “flint chips” be laying around still? Scores, or hundreds I guess… (BS smell is getting stronger)

“the site had no water source—the nearest stream was about three miles away” Gee, it must have been them darn aliens, no human can work 40 minutes away from a water source…