As many will know, the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, has highlighted the story of Gobleki Tepe prominently in the last few days - a Very Good Thing!
The sudden plummeting of temperatures around 10,000 BC marked a huge and very sudden change in global climate, and this DURING the final meltdown of the Ice Age (this is the time held by some scientific authorities as the time of a 2nd Global Superflood (the first being around 14,000 BC, and the 3rd around 8,000 BC). I hesitate to mention that Plato's Atlantis was allegedly destroyed at the same time as the 2nd.
I've often felt that the placing of the Garden of Eden in Mesoptamia, which clearly only ever had two rivers, is not the right location, compared with the Anatolian plateau which has a large number of rivers to choose from, including Euphrates and Tigris. Interestingly, the Turks have always held that Abraham's birthplace was not Ur in what is now Iraq, but in the town now called Sanliurfa (Sanli is an honorific like the old Soviet hero-cities - the traditional Turkish name is Urfa). The Sanliurfa area of Turkey, therefore, has a strong claim to being the original Eden, whatever that was.
What the original Garden of Eden was is now irretrievably lost in time, but it is not out of the question to suggest that it has an equivalent in the ancient Egyptian "Golden Age" when gods walked with men, which is a recurring theme in legends and mythologies worldwide. But, obviously, much more needs to be uncovered at Gobleki Tepe before we can draw any firm conclusions. I, for one, will watch developments with extreme interest.
As a curious side thought, the images of the Gobleki Tepe monoliths reminded me a lot of the monoliths at Tiwanaku in Bolivia. They were in the same sort of location as well - apparently sunken pits. Probably just a coincidence, but you never know!
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road