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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Agreed, but our understanding of the chronology of human achievement is limited by what has survived through the ages. Prehistoric does not mean rudimentary: Göbelki Tepi predates Stonehenge by 5000 years. More time passed between the time that site was active and flourishing and the construction of Stonehenge than between Stonehenge and now, and we have no idea who built (the much more complex) gobelki tepi or how or why.
Leshaches-
Probably people who’d now be called Turkish.
Can save millions of research money with that.
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There's a barely conceivable disconnect between learning how to chip away at a suitable pebble, (a flint), to make a variety of of useful tools, to 'burning' another pebble/bunch of rocks to liberate the metal within, and then when you get annoyed at how soft Copper is, to find another metal, (Tin), to make Bronze.
The Stone Age persisted for roughly 3.4 million years, but it took barely a couple of thousand years to 'find' Iron.
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Göbelki Tepi
Meh. Sounds foreign.
SomethingOrOther
mespilus
Greenbank
Our ancestors needed a sense of place to think about erecting anything of any permanence.
If you are a hunter gatherer tracking the herds of reindeer using what became the Ridgeway along the southern edge of a retreating ice sheet, you might revisit places each year for annual crops, (potentially hazel nuts), you aren't anywhere long enough to build more than a temporary structure.
Agriculture anchors (proto-/neo-)humans to a place.