"A solar calendar at Gobekli Tepe and a comet cult at the origin of civilisation": A Seminar at La Sapienza University, Rome
I recently gave a seminar at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza", as part of their Syn_Nat research programme, which focuses on representations of time in early history and prehistory. There was an error with the slides, noticed at ~7 min. Nevermind, we recovered from it. Synchronized with Nature - SYN_NAT Seminars Records Below is the paper contribution. I have never before converted a seminar to a paper like this - I suppose it is like a conference paper. The paper is essentially a condensed version of the Time and Mind paper. A solar calendar at Göbekli Tepe, and a comet cult at the origin of civilisation Martin B. Sweatman Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FB, UK. Abstract: An earlier 2017 interpretation of Göbekli Tepe's symbolism ( Sweatman and Tsikritsis, 2017) suggested that it was largely astronomical, and in particular that Pillar 43 in Enclosure D displayed a date using precessi...