Stone Paper I: Göbekli Tepe — When Humans Built Temples Before Houses

What this paper contains

It opens up the Göbekli Tepe passage that The Stones Don't Lie could only touch in passing, and it reads fine without the book.

1. 1 How this paper relates to the bookWhy the series starts here and what the book leaves open on this case.
2. 2 The ground beneath the pillarsThe landscape of southeastern Anatolia eleven and a half thousand years ago, and the people who lived in it.
3. 3 A day at the ridgeA day on the hill told from the inside, by someone climbing up to work.
4. 4 What the stones are sayingThe T-shaped pillars, the reliefs and the basins, and what each find lets us claim.
5. 5 What worked, what did not, and who benefits from the way we tell itWhy the arrangement held for so long and why it stopped.
6. 6 What we do not know, and what kind of not-knowing it isWhat is still underground and the other readings the evidence still allows.
7. 7 What this has to do with usTwo present-day conversations where the case carries weight, without turning it into a lesson.