Gobekli Tepe keeps getting older and the Mesopotamia connection nobody wants to draw

this is adjacent to the usual Mesopotamia beat but hear me out. Gobekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey, now dated to 9600-8200 BCE, predates agriculture. we've known this for a while. what I want to point out is the distance: Gobekli Tepe to Eridu (the oldest Sumerian city we know) is roughly 800km. an……