12,890-Years-Old! YOUNGER DRYAS Settlement of Tell Qaramel | Ancient Architects

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When studying the ancient Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the Fertile Crescent, Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Jericho get the most attention - for good reason - they display incredible architecture and are also truly ancient, between 10 and 12,000-years-old.
But there is one site that so many have never even heard of, one that is even older than those mentioned, and one that is even more important. It displays some truly magnificent examples of ancient stone architecture and artefacts, a Proto-Neolithic settlement with continuous occupation for 2,000 years, with origins before the Younger Dryas and then continuous occupation during and after - charting the evolution of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in one specific location.
This site is Tell Qaramel, located in Northern Syria, around 25km north of Aleppo, 175km to the southwest of Göbekli Tepe. It’s on the western bank of the River Qoueiq, very much in the Fertile Crescent, a site with truly ancient origins, yet experts have still only excavated a tiny portion of this ancient site.
After learning about this site over Christmas, I’m astonished it hasn’t been mentioned by popular authors because anybody with an interest in sites like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and Jericho - anybody trying to interpret the origins of civilisation - must at the very least mention Tell Qaramel. Watch this video to learn more about this incredible and little-known site.
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@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thank you for watching and for being here! If you want to support the channel, you can become a RU-vid Member at ru-vid.com/show-UCscI4NOggNSN-Si5QgErNCwjoin or I’m on Patreon at www.patreon.com/ancientarchitects

@TheFirstBubbaBong Год назад

@2:48 those 2 artifacts show aurora in the sky and those other depictions are a previous type of aurora only seen when the sun flares up to unimaginable levels. You know like the ones we will soon see in our lifetime. History always repeats. Eyes open no fear.

@bermo7559 Год назад

Nice work mate.

@dreddykrugernew Год назад

Here is the DNA migration of R1a, dont you think its interesting that R1a entered the region right at the point of the start of 'civilization' in Anatolia. In the video you can see west of the Black Sea R1a was residing in that region for a significant period of time, where the Cucuteni Trypillia culture emerged for around 6000 years prior to migrating to Anatolia. Did the R1a people bring anything in terms of technology or culture to the Anatolian region at that time and can we find any evidence around the Ural mountains of these peoples culture if we go even further back to the 18,000 years ago period around the Ural Mountains. Can the tracking of people through migration of their DNA lead us to earlier proto cultures or was it just something special about the Anatolian region and the people native to the area at that time. With the R1b haplogroup travelling back into Africa by 14,000 years ago with the most likely route taken would of been through the Levant did they have an effect on the region. The people who migrated back into Africa how many of them where there, was it a small tribe or was it a mass migration, a lot of this will be in the genetic data we already have it just all needs putting together to explain what was happening in the region at the time of huge changes globally in terms of weather patterns. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--iUNgYlb-Lo.html

@ilmirkauk3958 Год назад

Zašto se ne priča o civilizaciji sa Dunava

@ilmirkauk3958 Год назад

Sličnost sanskrta i slavenskog jezika je očigledna kakva grčka i rimska priča dođi u Bosnu talionicu kultura

@longcastle4863 Год назад

Another good one. The level of research is above and beyond. This channel totally deserves the success it is having

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thank you 🙏

@21LAZgoo Год назад

since there have now been structures like these towers which date to 12900 years old which is in the ice age, i think its fair to say that means humans couldve built structures that we have yet to find or have been completely destroyed for the entire 315,000 years that we have existed

@barrywalser2384 Год назад

The most thorough information I’ve seen on the site. Thank you Matt!

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thanks Barry. I had to leave so much out too. And not as many pictures as I liked. I had to colourise a lot of them too.

@barrywalser2384 Год назад

@@AncientArchitects You may have to do a part two! 😃

@ancientsitesgirl Год назад

Beautiful stone structures, may the political situation in Syria stabilize, there is still much to discover💗✌️

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@Wirmish Год назад

USA should get out of Syria. They are stealing 80% of Syria oil, shipping it to Europe from Irak. It's an illegal occupation.

@cestmoi7368 Год назад

The Muslim groups there are destroying “infidel” sites faster than we can find them….

@davidoliveirafonseca5551 Год назад

In the whole world, I hope, the most interesting sites are always in conflict zones

@FreeSpeechXtremist Год назад

So much in Syria and Iraq that is so important to our ancient history but political unrest threatens the very existence of these sites. The images of Isis destroying ancient mesopotamian monuments and relics really breaks my heart. It also makes you realise how amazing it is that anything stands from ancient times. Ancient monuments would have stood in defiance of the modern order as all the ancient monuments are built in boom times so would seem impossible feats to civilizations struggling through tough times. Might also be seen as the evidence of the failure of the current regime. It is clear to see why historically we destroyed and reused the materials from most of the structures that were left from previous occupant's. It's crazy that we still see this behaviour today.

@jaxellis3008 Год назад

This is amazing... Great work as always. We live in such a wildly unstable and often negative age but these new finds your channel continues to expose me to and educate me on reminds me that the wonder of discovery and the decoding of history as we know it continues to progress on a daily basis. And it fills a somewhat jaded cynic like me with childlike wonder. Thanks again.... So exciting. You're a treasure!

@lynnmitzy1643 Год назад

The fertile crescent sure holds a lot of our history. Thank you Matt ❤️🏞️❤️

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thanks for watching Lynn!

@lynnmitzy1643 Год назад

@@AncientArchitects hope those images will be available soon 👍🏼

@21LAZgoo Год назад

i agree, although I think the fertile crescent has the most evidence that was successfully able to be preserved

@Melih_R_Calikoglu Год назад

Wonderful, to watch history unravel bit by bit.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thanks for watching and supporting 👍

@jeffmead2935 Год назад

..pit by pit ...it is wonderful mate

@jimfulbrook2346 Год назад

Nothing short of spectacular and mind-blowing that a settled civilization existed back this far. Great job on the video. Thank you!

@padakis Год назад

As always an amazing job with carefully researched content. I enjoy all your work. Thank you for all you do.

@annikafrolander7903 Год назад

Thanks! More, please!

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@dragonfox2.058 Год назад

My first introduction to the Tels was a book about Tel Amarna. I think it was by James Michener...been hooked ever since...that was long ago. I just wish we could stop fighting each other long enough to LEARN something! war is such a waste

@AncientArchitects Год назад

I know. If safe, People would flock to visit if fully excavated.

@dragonfox2.058 Год назад

@@AncientArchitects thank you so much Matt for these insights. I am fascinated

@PatchouliPenny Год назад

Stunning to learn about this site. Besides the huge human loss what has been destroyed by bombing is just heartbreaking 😔

@penneyburgess5431 Год назад

You had fun over Christmas! Thank you Matthew!

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Ha. Always 😂

@neilbain8736 Год назад

It's significant that there was such a thriving and long lasting community. With so little domestication of animals or agriculture. It must have been on the cusp of necessity and development of it

@awonoto Год назад

I don't know if the "little" or no domestication of animals and agriculture is tenable these days. We should be open to possibilities that "pre-history" as we know it might need a rewrite.

@rredding Год назад

Matt, thank you for all the dedicated work, love and energy you put into the creation of these videos. I wonder whether isotope analysis of the human remains was done. We might learn what their diet looked like... Wishing you a healthy, creative and prosperous 2023.

@JMM33RanMA Год назад

What a great holiday present! It is astonishing how much we are now learning about our remote ancestors, and astonishing, as well, how very incorrect the history and folklore about them has been. Thanks, Matt, for your indefatigable and unceasing work to bring these findings to your youtube community. In the mid-seventies I was teaching in the university at Gaziantep, but that site and those you have recorded in that area were either untouched or off limits. Since I approve of keeping grave robbers and careless tourists away from such sites, I don't regret not being able to visit them, only that I didn't have the information that has since been found and written up. Thanks again for your invariably interesting and well-researched content. I am certain that I am not alone in wishing you a long and productive career in publishing these findings for the general audience. Happy New Year, Matt🎉🍾✨🍷🎊

@TroyC68 Год назад

The other day they found food that had been cooked by indirect heat in Jordan that dated back 300,000 years... Man was cooking with ovens 300,000 years ago.... not on open flames... This blows all other finds from 2022 out of the water.... We are MUCH older than we thought....

@ric6383 Год назад

Thanks for sharing this, Ancient Architect.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thank you for watching

@StephiSensei26 Год назад

Brilliant! Nice way to begin the New Year!

@attemptedunkindness3632 Год назад

"Pre-Pottery Neolithic" is one of those needless distinctions that won't age very well, seeing as how we keep having to move that meaning back every time a older piece of ceramic floats up, as they are known to do. Let's just call it neolithic and agree that pottery in one form or another might have been around as long as humans have as there is just as much evidence for as against.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

It’s just the name of the culture given by archaeologists because it’s the Neolithic period before the invention of pottery in this part of the world. It’s a good way to split up the Neolithic I think.

@attemptedunkindness3632 Год назад

@@AncientArchitects Neolithic itself is already a pretty thin slice off the back of the Stone Age. To me it's slicing a sliced pie like "Pre-Steam Industrial Era" or whatever that even means, the difference being we have better documented everything for the Industrial Era so we can at least afford the arbitrary distinction.

@freefall9832 Год назад

@@attemptedunkindness3632 I consider these sites stone age but I guess they archeologists call this the Neolithic. Once they made settlements and structures we enter the Neolithic I am guessing.

@freefall9832 Год назад

I liked the phrase prepottery as it gave me a deeper sense of the site

@eternaldreamer37 Год назад

Thank you so much for these posts. I always have a difficult time learning about history through books, and your videos are so much more exciting and visually informative.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thank you. And thank you so much for watching.

@SCOTTBULGRIN Год назад

What an amazing time to be alive! To be able to learn about our most ancient ancestors and to watch this video on my smart phone. Where we were and how far we have come. Cheers Matt

@claudiaxander Год назад

Happy new year! Yet more enlightening wonders to behold, cheers so much!

@willyboy6126 Год назад

Another fascinating video, Matt...So much to yet discover, not just here, but all around our beautiful planet! Happy New Year and to one filled with many great discoveries!😊

@alvinmick218 Год назад

Extremely interesting! Thank you and please continue your excellent work. Well done 🥃

@ToddRickey 11 месяцев назад

Truly an amazing presentation! This Tell proves very interesting and fruitful with artifacts. Thank you for sharing this, I learn so much from you.

@theFLCLguy Год назад

Unwritten history is more interesting than what we know.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

It’s just this has been known about for a long time. It just doesn’t get mentioned by popular media. I want to keep sites like this in the public eye :)

@theFLCLguy Год назад

@@AncientArchitects keep it up, I've learned more from this channel about little known history than anywhere else.

@garygibson1599 Год назад

Think you for bringing all the info that you've done, it has opened my eyes to the deep history of the ancient world. I know there has to be more settlements during and before the Younger Dryas, can't wait until their found.

@berngolden118 9 месяцев назад

These videos are wonderful! I like the recaps at the end of them.

@ericmeinke6913 10 месяцев назад

Great video! Tell Qaramel is very interesting due to its lengthy occupation. Thanks again!

@nickimontie Год назад

It's videos like this with great info that I am a huge fan of this channel!

@peathead4450 Год назад

Interesting as usual, Matt. Thanks for sharing

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thanks for watching 🙏

@ThePdog3k Год назад

Yay I have been curious about this site for so long I hope new discoveries come to light here!

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@m.pearce3273 Год назад

Agreed a mind opening site that needs way more work . Great video one of your best videos ❤🎉

@gerryfrankoski148 Год назад

Thank You for the update

@RicardoVelozo Год назад

I am very surprised about this one too! Thank you! I would probably have never learned about it!

@chiron14pl Год назад

Please keep us posted on developments about this site. I agree it's highly important

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Yeah, sadly nothing more to say due to the problems in Syria. I hope they can go back in one day!

@scottowens1535 Год назад

Perfect stratification, much to learn here.

@freefall9832 Год назад

Love this channel, real archeology.

@quitequiet5281 Год назад

Excellent video! Excellent presentation of the information.

@timjohnston6034 Год назад

Fascinating, thank you 🙏

@jimato01 Год назад

Terrific report Matt.

@dougalexander7204 Год назад

I find it interesting that early people at the start of civilization made wonderful art.

@therealzilch Год назад

Absolutely fascinating stuff, well reported as usual. I too am surprised that I'd never heard of Tell Qaramel. Keep up the good work. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

@tonymckeown5393 Год назад

Absolutely thrilling to think about these people. Truly remarkable to begin some tentative understanding of their behaviours. Huge Wow and thanks to Ancient Architects for opening these worlds to us.

@ronniesunshine1115 Год назад

Thanks for this video and all your research. You have really brought this time period and area to life. From the paleolithic through the various phases of the neolithic you show the development in the rise of agriculture and urbanization. Have you come across any archaeological study of Tell Brak, claimed to be one of the earliest cities?

@DavidLee-qy4yv Год назад

Very Well Done!!!

@DavoY2K Год назад

Amazing! This is another great adventure you've found. Thank you very much for your research. These sites makes one wonder if there are myriads of underground tunnels, passageways, and rooms. This is the first fresh video of yours that I've seen. Only an hour old. You are leading the pack! Cheers, mate.

@JosefWigren Год назад

Insightful and interesting episode about a site that I had not heard about previously! Your passion for your work is evident in how deep you dive to research for these videos. Looking at the historic movement of people in of the entire Levant area when talking about this period of time when agriculture was being developed is absolutely fascinating, thank you for highlighting such an important piece of the puzzle that many may not consider - how people migrated, how large these time spans are and how many generations of people lived at these sites. An unrelated question, have you considered using the Holocene calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar? Happy New Year 12023, and thanks for consistently putting out quality content!

@longcastle4863 Год назад

Have there been latrines found? What did these people do with their waste?

@rodwilliams5074 Год назад

Matt , who came up with the " Pre-Pottery Neolithic" idea for these ancient sites ?. Just curious.

@danpetitpas Год назад

Wow! Just an outstanding report! Our ancestors were a lot more advanced further back in time than anyone has given them credit for. Instead of just coming out of the woods to build cities 5,000 years ago, this shows long before that people were coming together in groups and tribes and were settling down enough to build permanent structures. Thanks for bringing this to light.

@markmurphy8078 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 💕

@legalizefreedom4014 Год назад

Thank you for the transcript. Aurog buchrania had us stumped!

@ArcAudios77 Год назад

Thanks Matt, wonderful education upon this Site. You're 1st Class regards Research & Delivery. Regards & 'Best Wishes' through our 2023.

@greeneyeddevil1 Год назад

Good video and informative

@raymondwolken7975 Год назад

I really enjoyed the video and I think the presentation is stellar. As an armchair archaeologist I love to see these cultures through your interpretations and logical explanations. Thanks

@LizLondonWWA Год назад

Wonderful content! ❤❤❤

@megansfo Год назад

Fascinating!

@AncientArchitects Год назад

I thought so! 👍

@oleran4569 Год назад

Great video! Subscribed.

@pjhue6607 Год назад

thank you

@victorydaydeepstate Год назад

Archeology is overwhelmed with new information and cannot process it all

@robski907 Год назад

Wow this is amazing.

@onepercenter13 Год назад

What a find thanks for the video

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@bigroryhollar5023 Год назад

Thank you .......

@salilsahani2721 Год назад

Thank you :)

@lanceedward6199 Год назад

Thanks

@australien6611 Год назад

Love how the only diagram with an explanation is the one with dates we can all clearly see and understand, which gets read out in full for some reason

@davehogg63 Месяц назад

What fascinates me is the octopus-like creature carved in one of the artefacts!

@vickonstark7365 Год назад

Happy New Year my friend! 🎉

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Happy New Year mate!

@xavian8970 Год назад

I believe I found another one while looking for this one, here's the cords 36°20'55.65"N 37°14'36.24"E

@graemefeeney9678 Год назад

Fantastic

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@johnbeeck2540 Год назад

Happy New Year!!!

@philbarker7477 Год назад

Thanks for covering this key Syrian site Matt.( I believe there are two others - but not certain).This culture appears to be south facing due to the similarities to Jericho and Natufian cultures.Of course the would have known and interrelated with the Anatolian culture.But there are no T shapes pillars ( to date) so perhaps different peoples/beliefs. That would of course ( being sedentary) put them in competition with Gobekli etc for the food resources - hence the walls/ towers? In the west at least this area does appear to be the cradle of civilisation.However in China they have found ‘low fired’ pottery dated to 20,000 yo!

@Tweedmachine Год назад

Wow! Awesome, have they done any LiDAR scans of the main mound at all?

@jacksavage4098 Год назад

Enjoy your content and research.

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Thank you

@humanbridges Год назад

Curious to learn more about the estimated size of the towers

@SmallWonda Год назад

Good way to kick off the New Year - fascinating, thank you! Wonder what discoveries await for 2023? Happy Hunting!

@massimosquecco8956 Год назад

Tell Qaramel testimonies, as in so many other sites, that civilization started in Kurdistan ( and the neighborhood..). It is our duty to defend, analyze, preserve, and study that region so important for the development of our culture. Thank you for your fine report!

@zincChameleon Год назад

There is a problem here that no one seems to notice: how pottery was originally created. Try the idea that a bony fish is best prepared by covering it in mud, and placing the covered fish in the coals of a fire. Once the mud is dry, when you crack it open, the skin and scales are automatically removed, leaving lots of meat along the spine. That is the first pottery, and is still used today. So...how can it be possible that a people would/could not create pottery, but cut one-tonne stone blocks? The mind boggles!

@RobertGotschall Год назад

Agreed, this is really interesting stuff. The oval houses of the H1 horizon, and a lot of the artifacts remind me of N. American Anasazi/HOPI.

@OzzieJayne Год назад

Thanks for a great video! I'm curious as to how similar are the towers to Scottish Brochs ?

@alphalunamare Год назад

Neat! 🙂

@AncientArchitects Год назад

👍

@deewesthill6966 Год назад

Thank you for this information. Tell "Caramel" has a lot to "chew on"! 😀

@faridmaulaui3644 10 месяцев назад

finally someone talking about it

@chukzombi Год назад

just curious, do these sites become younger from west to east? east to west or the numbers are all over the place? because now there are ancient sites extending to the shores on either side. there might be even older sites across those bodies of water. .

@AncientArchitects Год назад

All over the place I’d say. Kortik Tepe and Boncuklu Tarla in the East - much further East than Gobekli - are also very ancient like Qaramel.

@chukzombi Год назад

@@AncientArchitects oh well, it was a thought. thanks very much for the reply.

@loke6664 Год назад

I never even heard of the site before the "Tower of Jericho" vid and I read a lot about archaeology... I start to suspect that it is the alt history people who made Göbekli Tepe famous and the reason we don't hear about this site is that it comes from the time they want a super advanced civilization with anti gravity. I mean, this site is the most advanced thing I heard of from the time by far, one would expect the archaeological magazines should be all over this but I never even seen it mentioned a single time. It could of course be because Syria can't really use it to get tourists due to it's civil war while places like Turkey who is stable can use Göbekli Tepe to bring in loads of tourists but that still sounds like we should hear it being mentioned at least. Anyways, really good vid on a subject I think almost no one even heard about. This channel is just getting better and better. :)

@katarzynakozinska2211 Год назад

I am also surprised that it's not well recognized worldwide as I remember reading about it few years ago and in Poland they were talking about this 'big archeological discovery' for over 20 years. And this is something literally changing our understating of the history and not linear development. Yet, still very hard to read about it in English while much less important 'news' are given more importance. Crazy times.

@Alexander1005 Год назад

Happy new year

@AncientArchitects Год назад

Happy New Year!

@TheVMYak Год назад

Call me a cynic it’s probably less we’ll known because it’s hard to arrange ‘guided tours’ so, thanks for covering it it’s super interesting

@21LAZgoo Год назад

yooooooo thats crazy MANEEE

@terryenglish7132 Год назад

Well, now that they're finding all this stuff, it will hopefully get everyone to dig deeper past where they would have stopped before .

@GameTimeWhy Год назад

It's not even that. It was lack of technology and wars and political instability that restricted a lot of it. Some of it is politics of the area being super restrictive of what can be dug up and at what depth. There might be some conspiracy but most of it isn't.

@terryenglish7132 Год назад

I'm making a general statement about sites , not this particular one; where the idiots in the area have been at each others throats for thousands of years and show no signs of stopping. I'm thinking of the scientists. In N A for example, its " well, thats past the Clovis layer ,stop digging."

@gimmethepinkelephant3685 Год назад

That artwork looks really cool, especially that rabbit eared looking being with the tentacles. Looks almost Lovecraftian. I wonder if that had any serious significance or whether it was just someone carving something they thought was interesting into whatever that was on.

@jarekzawadzki Год назад

"How can the site fall under the radar" you gave an answer to the question at the beginning of the video, the key phrase is: Polish-Syrian team. Had it been discovered by a British, French or American team, it would be all over the place now.

@kellyrobinson6663 Год назад

We need the war over there to end, there could be history changing information hidden away there. Everything is getting older and older and with that more and more exciting.

@JohannesSkolaude Год назад

Also people die

@grugnotice7746 Год назад

A wall that is greater than two meters thick must have faced siege machinery, wouldn't it? Seems like wooden stockades or slimmer, easier to build walls would be adequate for keeping out arrows and spearmen.

@freefall9832 Год назад

We are talking stone age here, no machinery

@grugnotice7746 Год назад

@@freefall9832 Basic machines can be made from rope and wood and will leave no trace in the geological record. If Gobleki Tepe can have a hypocaust, then some group from a similar period can have battering ram. Or even a catapult.

@freefall9832 Год назад

@@grugnotice7746 I am going to let this go, have a good one

@grugnotice7746 Год назад

@@freefall9832 I thank you for your concession. Battering rams are not complicated devices.

@eliinthewolverinestate6729 Год назад

The first Nuraghe. Because it's built in that style. It's not like the Brochs built with dry stone found in U.k. But does look like some Malta constructions.

@mitchimoon Год назад

Bonkucklu Tarla - older than Gobekli Tepe. Can you look at this site please?

@adamranger6447 Год назад

Seems to me that this site tells the story that I suspect many have guessed at: that the megafauna extinction which is associated with the Younger Dryas might well be the reason for the rise of agriculture as humans adapted to a landscape where hunting wouldn’t be able to support large populations (relatively) any more. Agriculture seems to be an innovation of necessity rather than choice as it’s less calorically rich to eat grown oats than to live on game and berries/fruits/seeds etc.