9500 BC
Göbekli Tepe Is Built
Hunter-gatherers raise monumental carved stone pillars on a hill in Anatolia.
- Time period
- 9500 BC
- Region
- Turkey (Southeastern Anatolia)
- Theme
- Culture
- Civilization
- Neolithic Anatolia
Around 9500 BCE, hunter-gatherers erected enormous T-shaped limestone pillars at Göbekli Tepe. It is among the oldest known monumental structures, predating farming and pottery. Its discovery reshaped ideas about the origins of organized religion and society.