Tracing a Line From Göbekli Tepe to the Bronze Age – Jens Notroff (DemystifySci +436)

Archaeologist Jens Notroff of the German Archaeological Institute takes us into Göbekli Tepe and the Taş Tepeler world, where hunter-gatherers raised T-shaped pillars and carved the aurochs into stone long before the first Bronze Age king wore a crown. No palaces and no royal graves, only a fingerprint pressed into wet plaster and a child's footprint set in a mudbrick, the small human traces that outlast every monument. Follow the bull forward and you feel a line running from Anatolia toward the Bronze Age, and though the road to Mesopotamia is broken and lost, the people who built these sanctuaries did not vanish, they became us. What Notroff leaves us is heavier than any ruin: hierarchy was something human beings made and could have made otherwise, and that old freedom is still ours to remember.PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Intro, the Puzzle, and Jens's Path In00:06:03 What Rubbish Tells You That Writing Hides00:14:34 Metal, Power, and the First Hierarchies00:22:27 Other Roads Society Could Have Taken, and Violence Before States00:30:14 Warriors Appear, and Anatolia Seeds European Farming00:37:58 How Farming Actually Started, and What Göbekli Was For00:45:35 Who Carved the Pillars, and What the Art Meant00:54:39 Neolithic Beer, and Why They Built in the Mountains01:05:49 Humans Take Center Stage in the Art01:13:55 Bull Imagery That Bridges the Ages, and the Missing Line01:22:55 A Wider Tradition, Human Awe, and Shaping Nature01:29:56 Prehistory We Lost to Wood and Water01:37:01 Backfilling, Fire, and Ritual Staging01:47:26 Initiation, Death, and the Birds01:57:07 What Carried Over, and What It Means Now #GobekliTepe #BronzeAge #ArchaeologyMERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671