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How did a hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Anatolia, built with 5-metre limestone pillars around 9600 BCE, predate Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years without metal tools, pottery, or the wheel?

On a limestone ridge in southeastern Türkiye, hunter-gatherers raised six-metre carved pillars 6,000 years before Stonehenge — using flint, rope, and the quarry beneath their feet.

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