Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018)
by AlotOfReading on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:01PM
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It's mentioned as luminescence dating on the wiki page.
Honestly, I'm not sure why gobekli tepe gets brought up so much. It's thousands of miles away, in a completely different cultural area, and it's not even the earliest site with similar construction in its area.
This seems to be the case for the nearby temples, which are traditionally associated with the Sphinx, but not of the Sphinx itself. The temples were laid down with stone probably quarried from the trenches near the Sphinx. And yes, they've been dated to 2k+ BCE.
But that's where Schoch and Lehner disagree. Schoch says that the stone of the Sphinx is significantly older (noting that it was encased in similar stone to the temples).
What seems to be most significant is that Lehner doesn't treat it as solved from the dating of the stone, but relies on the lack of a sufficiently advanced civilization to explain the much earlier date, and this was enlightened with the discovery of Göbekli.
This is noted elsewhere in sibling comments as well and seems to be where the debate stopped.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesi...