Evidence first · Catastrophe

Catastrophe, memory, and early landscapes

Compare climate events, traditions, and early Neolithic landscapes while treating chronology and causation as separate questions.

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CM-013

Last Glacial Maximum

Large ice sheets, lower global mean sea level, and transformed habitats reshaped coastlines and human opportunities, while local timing and climate varied.

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CM-025

Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Reported platinum, spherule, charcoal, melt, and other anomalies require marker-specific tests of identity, background, date, diagnosticity, replication, and causal power.

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CM-051

Flood Myths

The strongest documented literary network links Mesopotamian flood compositions and Genesis, while other traditions require local source histories and community-grounded treatment.

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CM-012

Paleolithic Period

Stone artifacts preserve a long record of changing technologies and lifeways, while organic tools, speech, performance, and many coastal sites are underrepresented.

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CM-062

Taş Tepeler

The programme coordinates work on diverse early Neolithic settlements, camps, hunting places, landscapes, and monumental or special buildings across the Şanlıurfa region.

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CM-063

Göbekli Tepe

Its architecture, food remains, tools, imagery, and settlement evidence place communal monument building within wider changes in aggregation, subsistence, and regional life.

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