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So I'm here at Carrehan Tepé, about 20 or 30 miles east of San Leafer. Behind me is the

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largest stone at the site. The most of the site is buried, but this 18 foot monolith is

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on the western edge of this rocky outcrop on the Tectech mountains here in ancient Anatolia

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and not far from the Syrian border. It's an impressive site. There's avenues of tea pill

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as leading up to the top. There's looks like the circles here as well, or ovals like

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we find a gobekli tepii. But it's this stone here which really grabs my attention because

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it's 18 feet tall. One of the largest and not the largest that would have been at the site.

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And what we also see here is evidence of cup marks which we find a gobekli tepii and other

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sites. We find evidence of working with stone. We find porthole stones. We find other

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evidence of ancient technology here. Liz here spotted these very interesting carvings on the

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unfinished monolith. This looks like a kind of circle or a hoop. We have an indent here and we have

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some what look could be straight lines going down here. This is very intriguing that there could

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be some carvings. Actually on the unfinished monolith here at Kerahan tepe. Obviously we have

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these huge carvings. These sort of cup around the bottom part of the stone all the way across

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there. But obviously it was left here partly I think because it was part of a tradition that

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had to be maintained by the stone mace. It's about 30 or 40 miles east of San Leafer and Gebekli

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tepe. It's a couple of thousand years younger than Gebekli tepe but Kerahan tepe is this natural

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on this natural rocky outcrop. We've almost like avenues twin avenues of teapillers leading up to

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the top. Mainly on eastern and southern side maybe but on the western side we have this giant huge 18

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foot unfinished monolith. Part that would have been erected probably as the main part of the site

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or it may have been deliberately left here which is a tradition that we find all over the world.

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Like eastern Ireland the largest moeyes left in the quarry. The blue stones from stone hinge

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you can see where they came from and there's a geodetic connection between them as one

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and Egypt the Granite quarry. Even at Gebekli tepe there's 24 foot monolith still in the quarry

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there amongst others. There's a few other ones there as well but to find this here it does suggest that

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this tradition existed not only at the time of Kerahan tepe but even at the time of Gebekli tepe

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and this is shows you how they did it you can see down the edges all the quarry marks and so on

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the so forth and it's on the western side so that could represent death or even the sunset or even

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the end of their era maybe they decided to leave it here when they moved on from this area. Now

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this site is very strange it kind of looks like it's been covered up since it was put out of use

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about seven or eight thousand years ago or it naturally is covered up with debris and wind

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over the millennia.

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Essentially there are a series of pairs of standing stones that most of them are

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unexplored like this one some of have got test pits around them or you won't really see any

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carvings you might see a little bit and these are the same type of stones at Gebekli tepe

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but they're completely unexquated at this time. The big difference between Gebekli tepe and here

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is that this is not a hill that's been created as an occupational mound this is a natural hill

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and all they've done is to cover the top and the sides with a stone rubble and also earth

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and they buried the stones within them and if you ask actually what's going on we've tried to

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plot as many of the stones as we could and it does seem as if they all seem to be focusing

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on the top of the hill on the northern side not here but that that place a little bit

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far further up there and they've all they're all come together you'll see them all of them seem to be

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coming up in lines to all to spot. Now whether that's avenues whether that's a series of

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enclosures but if you go to the south there's nothing at all all of the the flints and flakes

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and rest of it are on the north side on the east side some on the west side nothing on the south side

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that tends to suggest to me that this area was a main area of activity. Why? Because I think that

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they were interested in that that hill there um that hill basically is full of caves and they are

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the only caves in the area and myself and here and one of the of their team members in the past

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have investigated them as much as we can and there is prehistoric activity on the top there.

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I've got an article ready to go essentially on it but there is absolute evidence of activity going

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back at least to 8000 BC and that's never been properly written about I mean I've there is an article

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that online that I've done which shows pictures of those caves which give some insight into what's

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happening up there but we've got we've been back there and we've got more information. So why that

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particular hill? Well firstly the age of this site is from around 8500 down to about 7500

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you'll notice that the stones are much smaller and most of them what we could see are unmarked there is

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no carvings on them this suggests a very light phase of activity and they're doing something different

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here the strong sense is that these zigzagging avenues are very serpent-like in nature and that

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imagery has found been found on some of the cave stones the carved teapillars of serpents

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what's interesting about that hill then if it is the cave that is significant what do they actually

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mean well what I suggest in the article is that they represent points of entry into an underworld

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almost into some realm that's going to take you towards the place of the afterlife and if you were here

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you'd around 8500 BC and you were here at night you would see every main star sick

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the set directly down into the horizontal surface of that hill and it's actually you know

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this cachelle cachelle now this is a word which can mean a various things goat it can also be bold head

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but it also is the name of it can also mean woman it's a name associated with woman

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it can mean queen it can mean delta and I actually think that the original route of this has a female

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personality to it and it was seen as somehow some kind of symbolic place of rebirth within a womb

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very much like in ancient Egypt was a symbolic rebirth of the soul within the womb of the sky god s

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do it

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the cachelle marks all over the exposed bedrock plus it does appear as if there is some kind of

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of steps that may once have formed part of a rise or or maybe they form the edge of an enclosure

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that's now vanished don't know but certainly do seem quite step like oh here I've everybody have

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look at this it's a tape pillar here on the ground here's one here that's been

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partially excavated with a test pit around it so that this is what they would call a test pit

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you know they're basically cutting down and just seeing what they find

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see here

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we've got one stone over there in the north one here in the south and then more here so

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and down there

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it's almost like a circle yeah

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there's a lot here there's a lot

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and there's even more down here

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like all the way down here

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and we get a chance

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walk down in this field here because there are pieces of carving and stuff

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carved windows you know portals

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here at Carhentepay we can see evidence of carved stone going back at least 10,000 years

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what I have been front of me is the alshake of a pothouse stone

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a rectilinear pothouse stone that would have been the entrance into one of the enclosures

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probably around 10,000 years ago and it's quite remarkable that something like this

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if you found it in England you'd say it was off of a medieval building

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but out here it's 10,000 years ago that these people were making these extraordinary

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enclosures with this type of technology and here it is just lying out here

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just at the base of Carhentepay

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and now we have a beautiful sunset just to carry here over the tec-tec mountains

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you can see that there isn't that beautiful

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just to finish off a wonderful day exploring Carhentepay

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and the ancient city of Saint Leopher