Göbekli Tepe still gets branded as 'ground zero, the oldest temple.' Yet it's been known for about 20 years that it wasn't deliberately buried. Retractions rarely get published while new interpretations stay in academic papers and never reach the public.
Göbekli Tepe misperception persists despite corrections
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Key facts
- Göbekli Tepe was branded as 'ground zero, the oldest temple'
- It has been known for about 20 years that Göbekli Tepe was not deliberately buried, yet this misconception still persists publicly
- Press releases about retractions rarely get published, while new interpretations on old findings may appear in academic papers but never reach the public domain
- Authors have no control over book covers, subtitles, or media headlines associated with their finds
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Göbekli Tepe - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to ...
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Known as Göbekli Tepe, the megalithic settlement is perched on a mountain ridge in Upper Mesopotamia, what is now southeastern Turkey.
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Predating Stonehenge by 6000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization.
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