Continuous agriculture for thousands of years gradually exhausted the soil and depleted its nutrition. I read this in one of the many articles about Gobekli-Tepe and the surrounding area (SE Turkey) available on-line.
It was not "nature" but deliberate human effort that buried the site. The archeologists who have spent the last 17 years excavating and examining the site have concluded it was human effort. Do you have any evidence that it was "nature" apart from your appeal to incredulity?
Arguments from ignorance, incredulity and towards an unfalsifiable premise (namely, God) noted and rejected as irrational and non-evidential.
That's just your opinion about Namely God.
Where is the evidence that it was human effort that buried that site?
17 years and they are still only half way to the bottom, how many years did it take to bury it with out a shovel on site?
At least they should have found one that they have excavated right?
Lets see one shovel?
If they did it with baskets and loaded them with ruble and dirt, do you have any idea how labor intensive that is?
Load a five-gallon bucket with some rock and dirt then try to lift it over your head, then get back to me.
My evidence that nature did it, bury it, comes from what is written in the bible and all the myths about a great deluge that happened abut 10,000 –years ago that others like the Sumerians wrote about along with many other cultures that experienced that disaster.
We know that the Sahara was a tropical jungle 10,000 years ago and the climate at Gobekli-Tepe had to be way more suitable in that era but is now also desolate, pretty close to desert like conditions of the Sahara, then something happened a global catastrophe perhaps?
Some of you have said that that building with blocks is the best they could do, begging the question, is ridicules.
When in fact these buildings have lasted for over 10,000 years, nothing we build even today will last past a few hundred years, so what better way to do it back then?
Then you have the balls to say,
Continuous agriculture for thousands of years gradually exhausted the soil and depleted its nutrition. I read this in one of the many articles about Gobekli-Tepe and the surrounding area (SE Turkey) available on-line.
But not a change in weather patterns?
Continuous agriculture for thousands of years? Come on they didn’t know about manure or ash?
Even with crop rotation, thousands of years?
You really believe that?
When the water runs out in an area that is all she wrote whether it's an aquifer or rainfall.
Look at what the Sahara was like before 10,000 b.c….
The vast desert that is now the Sahara in north Africa was, once, succeeding the last ice age in 10,000 B.C., a fertile land with grass, lakes, and rivers. The early Africans who grazed these lands lived as primitive hunter-gatherers. By 9000 B.C., the peoples of east Sudan domesticated cattle, continuing to collect wild grain. By 7500 B.C., they settled permanently, developing one of the earliest agricultural settlements, mostly cultivating sorghum. By 8000 B.C. the peoples of western Sudan began to cultivate yams. Sheep and goats arrived from the Near East after 7000 B.C., and the Sudanic people began to cultivate gourds, watermelon, and cotton by 6500 B.C.
http://orthoscholar.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/ancient-egyptians-nubians-and-the-bantu/
Five Periods of Rock Art in the Sahara
The rock art in the Sahara can be categorized into five general periods:
· Bubalus petroglyphs: large wild animals such as Buffalo, Elephants, Rhinoceros; 9,000 to 6,000 B.C. During the period from 10,000 to 6000 B.C. the Nile Valley was uninhabitable with tremendous flooding from glacier runoff into the Blue and White Niles from Ethiopia. From about 10,000 B.C., any settlements in the Nile Valley were wiped out with the inundations. As the meltdown began to slow, people from the Sahara moved back into the Nile Valley.
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Roundhead people petroglyphs: approximately 6000 to 4000 B.C.; humans are depicted with rounded heads and have a rather alien look about them.
· Cattle herding petroglyphs: 4,500 to 2,500 B.C.
· Horse and horses with chariots rock art: from 1200 B.C.
· Camel petroglyphs: from 500 B.C., sometimes accompanied by the tifnar script of the Tuaregs
Read more at Suite101: Prehistoric Saharan Rock Art: Signs of Changing Climate and Early Egyptian Religion in the Sahara | Suite101.com
http://www.suite101.com/content/prehistoric-saharan-rock-art-a185287#ixzz1REjCrRda
Ancient alien theorists suggest that there were genetic manipulations and one of the reasons Neanderthals went extinct is because they were stagnant and even from them is were the manipulation started.
SUMMARY: During the last Ice Age, the Sahara was savannah with rivers, lakes and plentiful rains. Over the past 10,000 years that landscape changed, but the rains from that period progressively percolated beneath the ground to be collected in aquifers. Today these aquifers are an important source of water for irrigating agriculture and supporting human populations in the area.
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/nile.html
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1219-esa.html
"Discovery of crater indicates meteorite impact in Sahara"
(Several impact craters litter the Sahara desert,vitrified rock that is now exposed from sand blasting from desert storms-could this possibly have been something else and could it have wiped out Atlantis?)
Researchers from Boston University have discovered the remnants of the largest crater of the Great Sahara of North Africa, which may have been formed by a meteorite impact tens of millions of years ago. Dr. Farouk El-Baz made the discovery while studying satellite images of the Western Desert of Egypt with his colleague, Dr. Eman Ghoneim, at BU's Center for Remote Sensing.
The double-ringed crater – which has an outer rim surrounding an inner ring – is approximately 31 kilometers in diameter. Prior to the latest finding, the Sahara's biggest known crater, in Chad, measured just over 12 kilometers. According to El-Baz, the Center's director, the crater's vast area suggests the location may have been hit by a meteorite the entire size of the famous Meteor (Barringer) Crater in Arizona which is 1.2 kilometers wide.
El-Baz named his find "Kebira," which means "large" in Arabic and also relates to the crater's physical location on the northern tip of the Gilf Kebir region in southwestern Egypt. The reason why a crater this big had never been found before is something the scientists are speculating.
"Kebira may have escaped recognition because it is so large – bigger than the area of 125 football fields, or the total expanse of the Cairo urban region from its airport in the northeast to the Pyramids of Giza in the southwest," said Dr. El-Baz. "Also, the search for craters typically concentrates on small features, especially those that can be identified on the ground. The advantage of a view from space is that it allows us to see regional patterns and the big picture."
The researchers also found evidence that Kebira suffered significant water and wind erosion which may have helped keep its features unrecognizable to others. "The courses of two ancient rivers run through it from the east and west," added Ghoneim.
The terrain in which the crater resides is composed of 100 million year-old sandstone – the same material that lies under much of the eastern Sahara. The researchers hope that field investigations and samples of the host rock will help in determining the exact age of the crater and its surroundings.
Kebira's shape is reminiscent of the many double-ringed craters on the Moon, which Dr. El-Baz remembers from his years of work with the Apollo program.
