Gobekli Tepe Part 2
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What we\'ve learned so far about G\\xf6bekli Tepe, is what it appears to be, which is that it is possibly the world\'s oldest sacred temple.\\xa0 We think we know who built it: a collective of hunter-gatherers, who had not yet learned the skills of farming.\\xa0 We also think we know approximately when.\\xa0 But the answers to the questions of how and why and what did it all mean to these Neolithic peoples may not be so easily obtained.\\xa0 In fact, since the 1960s at least in American archaeology, a debate still rages as to how far and by what methods archaeologists should proceed to interpret what they have dug up.\\xa0 How closely should archaeology be tied to anthropology, how much informed speculation about their beliefs should be allowed and by whom?\\xa0 Processual and Post-processual archaeology are two schools of thought within the field that currently define this debate. \\xa0 Tonight we take a closer look at the art, the architecture, and the symbolism from G\\xf6belki Tepe, and what it\'s lead archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, thought about what it may have represented to our prehistoric ancestors.\\xa0 We also get closer to an even grander question, did these ancient peoples know of events in earth\'s past that would blow our modern minds?\\xa0
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