Göbekli Tepe -National Geographic Magazine--"Origin of Religion" - 36 views
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James Spagnoletti on 17 Sep 11Very cool photographs--take a look. You will be doing your first art/artifact case studies this week.
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Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimages
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Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacred—and the human love of a good spectacle—may have given rise to civilization itself.
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