Ein Untergang im Morgenland? – Göbeklitepe als Fallstudie für die Vollendung und das Verlöschen einer späteiszeitlichen Jäger- und Sammlerkultur
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Date
2020Source Title
The Journal of the Oswald Spengler Society
Publisher
The Oswald Spengler Society
Volume
3
Pages
7 - 25
Language
German
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Abstract
The following contribution attempts to reconcile aspects of Cultural Morphology as outlined by Oswald Spengler in his seminal Decline of the West and Man & Technics with archaeological observations dating to the transitional period from the Epipalaeolithic to the Early Holocene in the so-called Fertile Crescent (ca. 10.000 BC). The finds and features of Göbeklitepe and related sites of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) in Upper Mesopotamia are reevaluated, to allow a different reading of the emergence of monumental architecture as the cultural climax of a then declining hunter-and-gatherer tradition, and not the prelude for a new era shaped by animal husbandry and agriculture.
Keywords
Cultural historyAnatolian Archaeology
Hunters
Fishers and Gatherers' Archaeology
Mesolithic/Epipalaeolithic Archaeology
Neolithic Archaeology
Megalithic monuments
The Neolithic revolution