Here is a link to an article concerning excavations at Gobeckli Tepe. I found interesting the assertion by Klaus Schmidt that farming and animal domestication did not predate the building of "spiritual" structures, but that it was the other way around. This site apparently predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-a ... c=y&page=1
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Excavation at Gobeckli Tepe
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