Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Zimmerman's theory in Turkey

In National Geographic of July 2011, a great article on Göbekli Tepe, the excavation of a pre-agricultural set of temples from 11,600 years ago just next to where the oldest traces of agriculture have been independently found (the origin of wheat agriculture, south of Turkey also). So both religion and agriculture found in forms similar to today, and at the same place.

That's exactly what Zimmerman's theory of the great leap forward predicted, but interestingly enough, Zimmerman's theory was in answer to the puzzle of the human expansion some 70,000 years ago, not the recent post-glacial one. So what we'd find here is that Zimmerman's theory may apply to more than one expansion, an interesting proposition indeed.

Regarding the 70,000 years ago expansion, I reported in Zimmerman's theory and phonemes that new discoveries where emerging in that part of the prediction too, although in a more abstruse way yet.

Bertrand du Castel

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