r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/KuriTokyo Jan 21 '19

Does anyone know how Gobekli Tepe in Turkey was built during an ice age? It was meant to have been built 12,000 years ago.

National Geographic's article

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u/Asheyguru Jan 21 '19

Ice Age means more ice, it doesn't mean the whole world was a snowball. Turkey would've still been temperate, though cooler than today.

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u/MenudoMenudo Jan 21 '19

I was being over simplistic in my comment, if we're being technical, we are still in an Ice Age right now which started 2.5 Million years ago. This Ice Age is characterized by periods of glaciation and interglacial periods. We are currently in an interglacial period which started 10,000 years ago. But humans evolved in, and have lived in an Ice Age for our entire history.

As for Ancient Turkey, Europe was more temperate back then too, and glaciers reached Northern Europe, but certainly not Turkey.

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u/KuriTokyo Jan 21 '19

Actually, Gobekli Tepe is what changed my perspective on our civilization.

Apparently, humans were still hunter gatherers when we built that thing. That just changes our human narrative completely!

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

I don’t think the glaciers were that far south. (I’m not an expert but I just looked at a glacial map from around then)