Stones Don't Lie (Settled Science Heresy, #2)

For more than a century, textbooks, universities, encyclopedias, and institutions confidently declared that civilization began in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. The story was simple and settled: primitive hunter-gatherers slowly evolved into farmers, farmers built villages, villages became cities, and civilization was born.

Then the stones started talking.

In southeastern Turkey, archaeologists uncovered Göbekli Tepe, an 11,600-year-old megalithic complex built thousands of years before the acce...