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Re:Göbekli Tepe by gota on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:20PM (#23727766)
> ziggurats are just an inevitable step in the development of urban architecture (this is definitely untrue).

Are you sure? I'm not strongly in one camp or another, but it seems relatively intuitive that if you are stone age people and want to build something tall, a square-based step-pyramid is the most stable form that can rise relatively fast wrt to the amount of material used and work needed

Of course this only pushes back the question of _why_ did all these people want to build tall things roughly at the same time, but still

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by madaxe_again on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:34AM (#23730578)
Defensibility. Hill forts have been around as long as settlements. Don’t have a hill? Build one.
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Re:Göbekli Tepe by deniscepko2 on Friday July 03, 2020 @10:25PM (#23729517)
i dont know i think your thinking implies years of growing with the same theories, like getting to a point of building with square like objects i dont think its a given
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