Where Does it Fit?, or Was there Pottery on the Ark?
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:30 am
Recently I listened to an interesting podcast about the archaeological excavation known as Gobekli Tepe ( you can read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
It is believed to have been built by hunter-gatherers who had not yet developed agriculture, animal husbandry, etc. It even pre-dated the invention of the wheel.
This was a very ancient site that was apparently created before the invention of pottery. However, it contains very large megaliths similar to those seen at Stonehenge and other such sites. I guess they say it was created prior to the invention of pottery based on a couple of things: based on dating, etc in pre-exists the time that pottery was known to have been first created, and two, there is absolutely no pottery or shards found at the site (however there are stone tools and implements like bowls carved out of stone).
I admit I have a very hard understanding how sites like this fit into the Biblical narrative. It would have to post-date the flood (otherwise the flood would have destroyed it), but current YEC theory has the flood occurring at around 2300 BC. Modern archaeology accepts that the first pottery was created long before this. Yet we have sites like Gobekli Tepe, which must have been built post-flood, which by all evidence was created in a pre-pottery age.
Of course there are other problems as well, like the Great Pyramid and Sphinx which are dated as older than the accepted date of the flood.
Does anyone have any insight on problems like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe
It is believed to have been built by hunter-gatherers who had not yet developed agriculture, animal husbandry, etc. It even pre-dated the invention of the wheel.
This was a very ancient site that was apparently created before the invention of pottery. However, it contains very large megaliths similar to those seen at Stonehenge and other such sites. I guess they say it was created prior to the invention of pottery based on a couple of things: based on dating, etc in pre-exists the time that pottery was known to have been first created, and two, there is absolutely no pottery or shards found at the site (however there are stone tools and implements like bowls carved out of stone).
I admit I have a very hard understanding how sites like this fit into the Biblical narrative. It would have to post-date the flood (otherwise the flood would have destroyed it), but current YEC theory has the flood occurring at around 2300 BC. Modern archaeology accepts that the first pottery was created long before this. Yet we have sites like Gobekli Tepe, which must have been built post-flood, which by all evidence was created in a pre-pottery age.
Of course there are other problems as well, like the Great Pyramid and Sphinx which are dated as older than the accepted date of the flood.
Does anyone have any insight on problems like this?