In Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey is the Neolithic archaeological site known as Göbekli Tepe. During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period, from approximately 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, the village was occupied. It is well-known for its enormous circular constructions that house enormous stone pillars, the earliest megaliths ever discovered. Numerous human elements, garments, and sculptural reliefs of untamed animals adorn these pillars, offering scholars unique perspectives into prehistoric religion and the distinctive iconography of the era. The fifteen-meter, twenty-acre tell is heavily covered in Neolithic stone-cut cisterns, quarries, and other minor constructions from the Neolithic era, along with occasional signs of later activity. With the emergence of the first permanent human settlements of the world during the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia, the location saw its initial use. Prehistorians connect the Neolithic Revolution to the emergence of agriculture, however they cannot agree on whether farming led to settlements or the other way around. This dispute has focused largely on Göbekli Tepe, a massive complex erected atop a rocky mountainside that has revealed no conclusive evidence of agricultural agriculture to far. Based on new discoveries of home structures and features, water supply installations, and Neolithic implements linked to domestic use, current excavators interpret Göbekli Tepe as a town. The original excavator, Klaus Schmidt, had described the site as a sanctuary inhabited by few or no permanent people and used by groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers from a wide area. Although Schmidt had described the megalithic enclosures as the first intentionally and ritually backfilled temples of the world, their exact purpose remains unknown. Recent stratigraphic research, however, showed that they had been filled in by slope slide incidents and occasionally repaired and altered afterward
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