October
23
/ 2021
The following essay is an extract from Stone Circles Explained by Stephen Childs, in which the author offers some original theories regarding the purpose of stone circles. Covering sites from around the world, including Gobekli Tepe, Stonehenge and Avebury, the book theorizes on the various reasons for why prehistoric stone circles were built. Here Childs will be exploring the Neolithic Gobekli Tepe site in Turkey, proposing that this famous site served the funereal needs of a wide area. Understanding the 11,000-Year-Old Monumental Gobekli Tepe Gobekli Tepe is located in Turkey, close to the Syrian border and to Harran, the traditional homeland of Abraham. Like some other sites in the area it is reckoned to be about 11,000 years old –
