ArchaeologyGöbekli Tepe in Turkey, dating to approximately 9600 BCE, predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years and agriculture by 1,000 years, challenging the assumption that organized religion followed farming.SrcSmithsonian Magazine
Next evidence →A 2023 discovery in a Turkish cave revealed a Neanderthal who collected and displayed eagle talons as jewelry roughly 130,000 years ago — evidence that our ancient cousins had symbolic thinking long before modern humans arrived in Europe.
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