In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. But Gobekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem