This site contains the oldest known temple or holy area dating to 11,500 or so years ago. Although that is interesting, what is even more interesting is that this appears to have been built by hunter gatherers and not 'settled' or agricultural people.
these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies.
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