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Andrew Collins.

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You've heard the name come back to 10 by a few times. There is no question that this is probably one of the hottest subjects in the whole of our

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community at this time. So I want to basically go into some aspects of it and get the ball running as far as what it's about.

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Okay, now Quebecly template was actually discovered as far back as 1963.

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An archaeologist by London Peter Bennett was surveying sites in South East Turkey's potential archaeological sites.

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And he came to Quebec to take which is on the top of a lovely mountain.

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Very near the city of Shambufla, as how it's correctly pronounced, there is earth there. Shambufla is its new name.

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And piece of ink there in found that there were pristoric flins all over the place.

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And he also found bits and pieces of lightstone blocks with carvings on it. But some refined and sophisticated word there that he actually dismissed them as part of a Byzantine cemetery.

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And he loved the site under the number V-52 and the whole lot was forgotten about until 1994 when a German archaeologist by the name of Dr. Clash met in can see here.

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Who was with the University of Hyruleberg but was working on behalf of the German archaeological institute and Shambufla Museum.

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And he came across this site and immediately recognized it as part of a culture that thrived in this area, which is known as the pre-postery Neolithic.

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And what this means is it's a time frame when pottery was not in use, so it was using stone vessels.

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There was no ceramics around the top, not to not to notably at least anyway.

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And he recognized that these large stone blocks were part of encoders, so called conf buildings, which he only worked on at another site by the name of Navarri Chorey, which was about 50 miles away from this location and worked there for a number of years.

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And he realized almost immediately that this was an extraordinary ancient complex of a certainly with some kind of religious purpose.

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And he put in the application to start working there and exhibitions began in 1995 for the first time.

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Now, the general public was not really aware of this site until the year 2000 when the major article was published in a German magazine.

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And that's where I first picked up on it because I had already been working on this particular culture from the actual arrangement, which came out in 1996.

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And I was actually writing that at the very time that the space where I'm in the first encoders, back to Tepai.

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And basically what I'd say was this area was the creative civilization.

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It was the place of the Neolithic explosion. It was a place of the Garden of Eden.

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And there's something very profound that got on in this area, probably the intrusion to people from some other part of the actual world.

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So kickstarted everything and then in this very location, the back of Tepai was discovered. So that was really a portment. I knew how it pulled this wall and that's why I was on to it at that time.

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There are four main enclosures together in the main area on the top of the hill. Then they're constructed around 9,500 to 9,000 BC.

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And the 18 comes from two separate sources. It comes from very limited, radiocarbon dated, but also from the examination of the literally tens of thousands of flints and obsidian's halls.

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That the family of the hill took. They can be easily dated to the time frame of their manufacture. And this gives a very accurate portrayal of when things started kicking off them, which was about 9,500 BC.

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But there are a number of other structures, much smaller, which were constructed during a slightly lighter phase. Now this was any time from about 9,000 all the way through to about 8,000 BC.

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And here's a picture of them there, but we'll see what they look like in theory as they were originally here in the Nail Square.

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Because as I said, they were built on the top of a mountain basically. And this mountain summit faces every direction. So you could see the horizon in every direction. This is quite important to remember.

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So they were built on the main rock. And what happened was they then imported soil. Right from the word got almost within the first 100 years or a couple hundred years of the construction of the earliest monuments, which by the way, the largest ones, the most sophisticated ones, the oldest, which is very, very cold.

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So they started building the sophisticated monuments on the top of the bare summit on the background itself. Then they began almost immediately to start bearing them in part and starting to commission them, they commissioned them and bearing and building new ones on top of the mountain.

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And then they put more of a film and build it a more box. As it was going on from the period of the August to the young guests, as I said, the structures were getting smaller and smaller.

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Until we get to around 8,000 BC when the final enclosures as they called them were abandoned or decommissioned or killed, richly killed, like you might kill a weapon by breaking it. They richly filled in these structures and completed the mountain and went away.

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Now I see no evidence whatsoever and I've talked to Clashwit about this for the abandonment at the end being something sudden. It would seem to say what happened around 8,000 BC is that there were other motivations that were new sites new places being created in the area.

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However, they wanted to do it to finish and finish. They just left it by simply. There might have been a few things going on, you know, climbing, things like this, but generally they completed the mountain and they left by simply.

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Now this is the main class that the main group of enclosures and they're all labeled with the letters at the alphabet. There's a small structures and say which is the largest and most complicated structures, which come on.

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So then D, which I think is the largest, although this is the largest D, the most accomplished by far, then there is E which all of the outer structures have now been removed and all that's left are the slots in the main group where two central pillars were placed.

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This one dates to the same phases as the C and D. These are the oldest three. C, D and E are the oldest three. These two are from a slightly later. They only by 300 years probably. These are these ones maybe 9,500 to 9,000. These ones maybe 9,000, maybe 28,500 something like that.

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And then recently they've uncovered one that they call F and there's a number of styles missing here, which is from a much later date probably from 8,500 to 8,000.

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And they've uncovered one other major enclose to the northwest of the main ones. But basically that's it. And they reckon that there's possibly as much as a 22 other enclosures to be.

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Thank you very much Andrew. That was a stylish really.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.