Göbekli Tepe was abandoned completely around 8200 B.C., with no evidence that its inhabitants gradually adopted domesticated grains or began herding goats and sheep.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent academic sources, including a peer-reviewed study by Dietrich et al., corroborate both the abandonment date and the absence of domestication evidence at the site. Minor date discrepancy (8200 vs 8000 BCE) noted in Wikipedia does not undermine the core claim. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Features - Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers? - May/June 2021 (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.academia.edu/74525599/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe_Agriculture_and_Domestication (corroboration)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260198406_Gobekli_Tepe_Agriculture_and_Domestication (corroboration)
- https://gobekli-tepe.com/blog/who-started-agriculture-hunter-gatherers-temple-builders-gobekli-tepe/ (corroboration)