11,500 year temple complex in Turkey rewriting story of human evolution

A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. The temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization. In fact, Schmidt thinks the temple itself, built after the end of the last Ice Age by hunter-gatherers, becamer that ember—the spark that launched mankind toward farming, urban life, and all that followed. Read the rest of the Newsweek article here.