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~9,500 BCE
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Stone Paper I: Göbekli Tepe — When Humans Built Temples Before Houses
The site that rewrote the chronology of human cooperation before agriculture.
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Stone Papers
Deep archaeological dives — in chronological order — drawn from the case studies in Las Piedras No Mienten.
One paper every 6-8 weeks.
What these papers are
Each paper is a standalone analysis of one site or historical period: context, evidence, alternative readings, what we DON'T know, and the implications that *Las Piedras No Mienten* extends across the panoramic argument. They're real academic work — 10,000 to 25,000 words per language, with 30+ primary sources cited — not summaries or previews of the book.
These are not book summaries. Las Piedras No Mienten covers 27 cases across ~648 pages; each Stone Paper concentrates on one of them with the depth the book couldn't afford given length constraints. Every paper carries its own mini-thesis. Every paper reads standalone.
The catalog
Chronological order · oldest site first
Coming up
Roadmap of the next papers. Detail pages appear as each one enters drafting.
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II
Çatalhöyük — A Thousand Years Without Kings
~7,500 BCE -
III
Çayönü — The Hinge Toward Hierarchy
~7,200 BCE -
IV
Jericho (PPNB) — The First Wall
~7,000 BCE -
V
Uruk and Eridu — The First Cities
~3,500 BCE -
VI
Predynastic Egypt — The Emergence of the Pharaonic State
~3,200 BCE -
VII
Indus Valley (Mohenjo-daro) — The State Without Kings
~2,500 BCE -
VIII
Olmecs and La Venta — The First Mesoamerican State
~1,200 BCE
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