Interest program last night about Gobekli Tepe.

It predates the time of when we moved from Hunter Gathers to Farmers. They have recently found the remains of an older temple than this one they estimate was built 15,000 years ago.

Back to watch TV.

The scientists doing the archeology and research are putting forward theories that turn previous theories upside down.

These temples were built by Hunter Gatherers. They took a lot of organised labor, that had to be housed and fed. This was previously thought to of happened after we started to farm, but this isn't what happened here.

There are signs of a settlement being found, feasts and even grain storage for a wild wheat/grass bread. Also lots of bones were found, all the remains of non domesticated animals and eaten as food.

So they now think these people came together to go hunt and gather as a fixed unit instead of following the migrating herds or moving on to new places. The community needed a better way to feed itself and "discovered" farming. They also needed a set of rules and elevated the primitive religion they had to a higher form so they could live together with the rules required to co-exist.

There were no Aliens or help from god. They did it themselves.

The size of the statues are also interesting. Until then cave paintings had pictured man as part of his environment, now they were building temples and statues to tower over his environment.

They, and in other programs, also touched on other themes in early religions that are similar to modern religions. Resurrection, eating the flesh and blood of a victim which Catholics adopted with Mass, afterlife, etc.