Göbekli Tepe

Central pillars of 8 to 10 tonnes, raised by foragers about 6,500 years before Stonehenge's first ditch

c. 9500-8000 BCE

Hunter-gatherers with flint tools raised 8 to 10 tonne pillars at Göbekli Tepe before anyone here farmed. Did building monuments push people toward farming, rather than the other way round?