30 houses, 6 public structures, hundreds of thousands of pieces of jewelry, and skeletal remains of over 100 people have been found.
This settlement was in use from the late Epipalaeolithic, through the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B, which covers a transitional period during and after the Younger Dryas.
Copper smelting. Megalithic architecture. Public and private facilities. Astronomy. Public utilities like sewage and running water. Organized communal living.
All things taught to have not come about for thousands of years after what’s being discovered in Turkey, between the head waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
