Göbekli Tepe - The First Temple On Earth? 10,000 BC // Ancient History Documentary

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- - Göbekli Tepe - The First Temple On Earth? - -
11:07 - I - Discovery
35:09 - II - Before Eden
54:40 - III - In the Prehistoric Zoo
1:15:42- IV - After The Ice
1:37:14 - V - Feasting At The Dawn
2:14:36 - VI - The Birth Of The Gods?

- - Bibliography - -

- Books -
Klaus Schmidt, Gobekli Tepe (2012)
Steven Mithen , After The Ice (2003)
V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself (1939)
Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution (2014)
Robin Dunbar, How Religion Evolved (2022)
David Wengrow & David Graeber, The Dawn of everything (2021)
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas (1988)
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism (1951)
Jaques Cauvin, The Birth Of The Gods & The Dawn of Agriculture (1994)
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)
Claude Levi Strauss, The Savage Mind (1966)
Dancing at the Dawn, Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
Brian Hayden, The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory To The Present (2014)
Dacher Keltner, Awe - The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder (2023)

- Academic Journals -
The Archaeology of Ritual, Edward Swenson (2015)
Becoming Farmers: The Inside Story, Anna Belfer-Cohen (2011)
The Earliest Dancing Scenes In The Near East - Yosef Garfinkel (2003)
On Scorpions, Birds & Snakes - Benz & Bauer (2015)
Farewell to the ‘Childhood of Man’ - Wengrow & Graeber (2015)
So Fair A House, Göbekli Tepe - E. B. Banning (2011)
Göbekli Tepe Preliminary Report, Klaus Schmidt (2000)
Gods & Monsters - David Wengrow (2011)
Jaques Cauvin: The right man for the reason - Anna Belfer Cohen (2011)
The Legacy of Jaques Cauvin, Melinda Zeder (2011)
Klaus Schmidt, Hans Georg K Gebel (2014)
The Natufians In The Levant, Anna Belfer-Cohen (1991)
To be not to be, Olivier Aurenche (2013)
The Neolithic Transformation, Willie Thompson
The Origins of Agriculture, Price & Bar-Yousef (2011)
Rational Choice In The Neolithic?, Kim Sterelny (2015)
The Origins of Agriculture In The Near East, Melinda Zeder (2011)
On The Nature of Transitions and Revolutions in Prehistory, Ofer Bar-Yosef (2005)
The World’s First Temple, Sandra Scham (2008)

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