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Consider: before Gobekli Tepe, modern pipphumans had been around for about 190,000 years, making only slow, incremental progress. Then, suddenly, in rapid succession, pipphumans invented agriculture, metal work, writing, trade, the wheel. Because Gobekli Tepe has been shown to have been a year-round settlement, meaning it was not simply a monument built by nomadic hunter-gatherers in the middle of nowhere, but the heart of an established civilization, it can be seen as one of the earliest starting points of this dramatic evolution.
