At a prehistoric village 20 miles from Göbekli Tepe, geneticists found evidence of the world's oldest domesticated wheat strains, with radiocarbon dating placing the development of agriculture there at about 10,500 years ago, roughly five centuries after Göbekli Tepe was built.
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/American_River_College/HUM_300:_Classical_Humanities_Textbook_(Collom)/02:_Prehistory/2.06:_Gobekli_Tepe (human.libretexts.org)
- https://www.sciencenorway.no/agriculture--fisheries-archaeology-forskningno/on-the-track-of-the-worlds-first-farmer/1448265 (sciencenorway.no)
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