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Where did “Gobekli Tepe” get in to this thread?  Tho I am interested in the topic.

Ain’t that the truth.  Before that, hmmm.  Guess one would start looking here:

 

Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

Rasmus Nielsen, Joshua M. Akey, […], and Eske Willerslev

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772775/#

Nature. 2017 Jan 18; 541(7637): 302-310

Abstract
Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human evolutionary history. These include the discovery of interbreeding between anatomically modern humans and extinct hominins; the development of an increasingly detailed description of the complex dispersal of modern humans out of Africa and their population expansion worldwide; and the characterization of many of the genetic adaptions of humans to local environmental conditions. Our interpretation of the evolutionary history and adaptation of humans is being transformed by analyses of these new genomic data. …

Göbekli Tepe is amazing and mind boggling, with supporting communities found throughout the area existing for hundreds of years.  Then the world changed and they deliberately buried it.  To know what they were thinking, that would be incredibly amazing, but alas.

Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe: is this the world’s first architecture?
Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy
ROBERT BEVAN- 3rd August 2018 – TheArtNewspaper.com

At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which became a Unesco World Heritage Site in July, also be regarded as the world’s oldest piece of architecture?

Archaeologists are fascinated by Göbekli Tepe, an artificial mound spread across eight hectares at the top end of the Fertile Crescent near the present-day city of Sanliurfa. It features a series of circular sunken structures that had been occupied for a thousand years before they were back-filled and abandoned.

Construction techniques…https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/is-this-the-world-s-first-architecture