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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Göbekli Tepe Out of Younger Dryas Impact - Dr. Martin Sweatman, U of Edinburgh
Description: Dr. Martin Sweatman is a chemical engineer at the University of Edinburgh working in both statistical mechanics and archaeoastronomical studies of symbolism at Göbekli Tepe. Our conversation with Dr. Sweatman circles around the missing pieces in our modern narrative of the emergence of civilization after the last glaciation. Might Göbekli Tepe have not been the first city but merely the oldest remaining after an extraordinary cataclysm like the Younger Dryas impact?
(00:00:00) Go!
(00:07:22) Missing societies
(00:13:42) Open questions about Gobekli Tepe
(00:19:16) The Handbag
(00:21:07) Continuity of Symbols in Pre Dynastic History
(00:25:40) Emergence of Civilization from Nothing
(00:30:49) Younger Dryas St...