Prior to the 1990s, it was widely assumed that significant human construction did not occur until early man dealt with agriculture and began to establish towns. When archaeologists discovered Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, this notion was thrown out the window because the remains, which included the world's oldest megaliths, were created roughly 2,000 years before the agricultural revolution.
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