Stone Age temple tracked the dog star

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2930, 2013, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The world's oldest temple, Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, may have been built to worship the dog star, Sirius is discussed. The 11,000-year-old site consists of a series of at least 20 circular enclosures, although only a few have been uncovered since excavations began in the mid-1990s. Each one is surrounded by a ring of huge, T-shaped stone pillars, some of which are decorated with carvings of fierce animals. Two more megaliths stand parallel to each other at the center of each ring. Gobekli Tepe put a dent in the idea of the Neolithic revolution, which said that the invention of agriculture spurred humans to build settlements and develop civilization, art and religion. There is no evidence of agriculture near the temple, hinting that religion came first in this instance.