Dr. Lee Clare

advanced technology i mean they we can't actually imagine them as being often people say ah you know cavemen no you know they were like us they were physically like us cognitively cognitively perhaps a little you know different but if we'd grown up in that period then we'd have been just like them and if they'd grown up today been born today i'm sure they'd been sort of you know on their mobiles looking at instagram you know

advanced technology i mean they we can't actually imagine them as being often people say ah you know cavemen no you know they were like us they were physically like us cognitively cognitively perhaps a little you know different but if we'd grown up in that period then we'd have been just like them and if they'd grown up today been born today i'm sure they'd been sort of you know on their mobiles looking at instagram you know

Yeah, okay. I mean, if we're talking about the T-pillars, I mean, the tallest, as I said, are the central ones in these special buildings, and they can be up to six metres, five and a half metres, six metres tall. And those in the enclosing wall, about three metres, three and a half metres. They're larger than us, larger than human. That's why we speak about monumentality.

Yeah, okay. I mean, if we're talking about the T-pillars, I mean, the tallest, as I said, are the central ones in these special buildings, and they can be up to six metres, five and a half metres, six metres tall. And those in the enclosing wall, about three metres, three and a half metres. They're larger than us, larger than human. That's why we speak about monumentality.

Yeah, okay. I mean, if we're talking about the T-pillars, I mean, the tallest, as I said, are the central ones in these special buildings, and they can be up to six metres, five and a half metres, six metres tall. And those in the enclosing wall, about three metres, three and a half metres. They're larger than us, larger than human. That's why we speak about monumentality.

But of course, monumentality is also relative. For us, they're not really monumental for our understanding. If we stand in a city and there's a skyscraper that's dozens of stories high, that's more monumental for us. Five, six meters high is not really monumental. But for them,

But of course, monumentality is also relative. For us, they're not really monumental for our understanding. If we stand in a city and there's a skyscraper that's dozens of stories high, that's more monumental for us. Five, six meters high is not really monumental. But for them,

But of course, monumentality is also relative. For us, they're not really monumental for our understanding. If we stand in a city and there's a skyscraper that's dozens of stories high, that's more monumental for us. Five, six meters high is not really monumental. But for them,

living in an environment where we didn't have any of that sort of metropolis or what we have today, five and a half meter, six meter high monoliths would have been very much monumental.

living in an environment where we didn't have any of that sort of metropolis or what we have today, five and a half meter, six meter high monoliths would have been very much monumental.

living in an environment where we didn't have any of that sort of metropolis or what we have today, five and a half meter, six meter high monoliths would have been very much monumental.

Like I said, it's a perspective thing. I mean, for a hunter-gatherer, Even if they'd put up a thousand years before that, if they'd put up a three-meter-high wooden whatever, that would have been for them, I think, monumental. But yeah, I mean, strictly speaking, for example, our UNESCO application, we're a UNESCO site since 2018. And of course, that's about monumentality.

Like I said, it's a perspective thing. I mean, for a hunter-gatherer, Even if they'd put up a thousand years before that, if they'd put up a three-meter-high wooden whatever, that would have been for them, I think, monumental. But yeah, I mean, strictly speaking, for example, our UNESCO application, we're a UNESCO site since 2018. And of course, that's about monumentality.

Like I said, it's a perspective thing. I mean, for a hunter-gatherer, Even if they'd put up a thousand years before that, if they'd put up a three-meter-high wooden whatever, that would have been for them, I think, monumental. But yeah, I mean, strictly speaking, for example, our UNESCO application, we're a UNESCO site since 2018. And of course, that's about monumentality.

And for us, of course, the fact that it's carved, it's preserved, it's in stone, the fact that it's so durable, that for us is also monumental. And so for that reason, I would say it's one of the earliest monumental sites. Of course, there are now sister sites in the region, which are equally as old or the same age. So it's not just Gobekli Tepe.

And for us, of course, the fact that it's carved, it's preserved, it's in stone, the fact that it's so durable, that for us is also monumental. And so for that reason, I would say it's one of the earliest monumental sites. Of course, there are now sister sites in the region, which are equally as old or the same age. So it's not just Gobekli Tepe.

And for us, of course, the fact that it's carved, it's preserved, it's in stone, the fact that it's so durable, that for us is also monumental. And so for that reason, I would say it's one of the earliest monumental sites. Of course, there are now sister sites in the region, which are equally as old or the same age. So it's not just Gobekli Tepe.

But yeah, so we could say fair, it would be fair enough to say it's one of the earliest monumental buildings, monumental structures that we know so far.

But yeah, so we could say fair, it would be fair enough to say it's one of the earliest monumental buildings, monumental structures that we know so far.

But yeah, so we could say fair, it would be fair enough to say it's one of the earliest monumental buildings, monumental structures that we know so far.