Harvard Traced Where Göbekli Tepe's Builders Came From.. They Are Gravely Concerned

The people who raised the pillars of Göbekli Tepe left no graves, and the bone they did leave behind is so broken down that the people digging it up don't expect any DNA to have survived. So the only way to find out where the builders came from is to read everyone around them. In 2022 a Harvard team read the first DNA from that world, a person buried at Boncuklu Tarla, a village above the Tigris with its own pillared hall, 260 kilometres east. Then come thirteen people from Çayönü, a village that took in outsiders and reshaped its babies' heads, and the teeth of Nevalı Çori, 44 kilometres from the hill, where you can watch the coming and going fall away as the wheat takes over. Before any of it, people related to Iran's first farmers were already heading west. Put the witnesses side by side and you get the answer to who built Göbekli Tepe, and it isn't a lost civilisation. Then the video follows that mix out of the hills: onto the plains of central Turkey, into the first farmers of Europe, and into a man buried in a clay pot on the Nile around 2700 BC, the first ancient Egyptian whose whole genome anyone has read. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMOgmkKMJ4U6pQSB6-TffQ?sub_confirmation=1 SOURCES Lazaridis et al. 2022, Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia, Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq0762 Same paper, author manuscript, Reich Lab, Harvard: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/8_25_2022_Manuscript2_Neolithic.pdf Human remains and DNA preservation at Göbekli Tepe, German Archaeological Institute, Tepe Telegrams, 2017: https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/06/28/new-publication-in-science-advances-evidence-for-skull-cult-at-gobekli-tepe/ Altınışık et al. 2022, A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition, Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo3609 Wang et al. 2023, Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant, PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210611120 Chintalapati et al. 2022, The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene, eLife: https://elifesciences.org/articles/77625 Lazaridis et al. 2016, Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19310 Lazaridis et al. 2014, Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13673 Lazaridis 2018, The evolutionary history of human populations in Europe, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959437X18300583 Morez Jacobs et al. 2025, Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5 Dwellings detected near monuments at Göbekli Tepe, Archaeology Magazine, 20 August 2026: https://archaeology.org/news/2026/08/20/dwellings-detected-near-monuments-at-gobekli-tepe/ Boncuklu Tarla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boncuklu_Tarla Çayönü: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87ay%C3%B6n%C3%BC Nevalı Çori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neval%C4%B1_%C3%87ori Göbekli Tepe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe Old Kingdom individual NUE001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_individual_(NUE001)