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- That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
- Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.by itopaloglu83
- Was subfloor burial common in Neolithic?by MadrasTh0rn
- And how is this going to help a team of crack scientists at The Smithsonian solve a modern day murder while also navigating the difficulties of having an intimate social life as a professional in DC?by moron4hire
- More evidence for David Graeber and David Wengrow's reading of the site.
Between Göbekli Tepe, Poverty Point, Cahokia, and other sites we have pretty good evidence of complex urban societies that did not rely on agriculture. And even in these few sites we have abundant evidence of diversity of social structures from radically egalitarian to hierarchical
The linear narrative of the evolution of human societies is dead
by culi