An acient city with no pottery.

(If you ask AI, you will find that there was no pottery found at Gobekli Tepe). At all the other famous archeological sites you can visit today there will be lots and lots of broken pottery still there in the sand and easy to spot. Pottery is fragile and the broken pieces pile up in heaps everwhere while the ancient peoples are still living there. There was no Saxon pottery in England in settlements before a certain date, but lots of it at sites of a slightly later date. Conclusion is that England was invaded by Saxons in large numbers suddenly, and we know when. But not a single piece of pottery at GT.

But Gobekli Tepe is really ancient. A few thousand years before people lived in built up cities, before they were storing grain they grew in pots. They were hunting and gathering. At GT they were harvesting animals living in the wonderful canals that they had built. Hunting and gathering was much less of a chore. And they were growing grains. About 9,500 B.C.

10:35 preying scavengers in the canals, like a crayfish and a cat (11:23)

13:40 pre pottery.

16:30 grain processing