Speculations on Göbekli Tepe through to Buddhism

So while most of the country was complaining about HRH Prince Philip's RIP effect on the schedules I chanced upon an amazing CH5 offering "Ancient Mysteries: Eden Revealed." It steals a chapter out of a book I want to write, but nice to know someone thinking along the same lines... and added considerably more... so established wisdom is these Megalithic monuments (like above) were erected at the START of farming. They represent the first work done by human beings that had become settled and had the spare calories and local investment to do such things. But an 11k yo megalithic site at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is pre-farming!!!! Hunter-gatherers built this. So it was not built to set-in-stone productive farm land, but to mark something more ancient. So why does it coincide so close with farming (the original barley genes come from this area)? Researchers interviewed for this program suggest that it was a ritual site, and farming developed to meet the food requirements of the pilgrims/revellers. Quite reasonably given how grain was used ever since, it was added to water to sterilise it and make beer. So essentially you would have had something akin to a modern music festival with feasting. 11k yo the people were identical to us, so would they be any different. This is likely pre-class too (so no warriors/priests imposing fascist control either.. after all if you piss of hunter-gatherers they just leave and hunter-gather somewhere else - no concept of investment or capitalism). It is pretty apparent to me Garden of Eden is a record of the start of human work and what a difficult life it was when hunter-gathering stopped. You can find interviews with Amazonian and African hunter-gatherers post-contact trying out Capitalisms and just not-understanding why anyone would live like this: why do I need money or work when I can just go into the forest and find everything I need they universally complain. The switch to work and capitalism was hard, and led to laborious days harvesting and grinding of seeds, nutrient deficiency, arthritis, and crowded living conditions. But calories were higher and populations grew and slowly expanded to displace the hunter-gatherers (as happened with mass slaughter in the New World and is still happening in Amazon). The CH5 program added Capitalism as another reason we never returned to hunter-gathering. Once investments had been made in the lifestyle they acted to weigh us down.. which is the traditional understanding of Megaliths also... more a fascist control mechanism like Castles of a rising elite. And that is pretty much the modern Western world already in place. So I've speculated why in middle ironage C5th BC people around the world were saying the same thing Logos(pre-Socratics), Dao(Lao-Tze) or Dharma(Buddha) which are all anathema to Capitalism and being weighed down by worldly attachments*. Was this a final memory of the wisdom of hunter-gathering before mankind got sucked into the swamp of material attachment? There's a lot to consider in Megaliths anyway.

*subtle point: non-attachment is not rejecting worldly things (they are here whether we like it or not) but its remaining hunter-gatherer amongst them.

Just as a bee in a flower

harming neither hue nor scent

gathers nectar, flies away,

so in towns a Wise One fares.

[Dhammapada, vs 49]