Decoding Gobekli Tepe

The lives of archaeologists have always been pained by the mass media's adoration of alternate historians -- a handful of authors who believe that Atlantis was real, or that Ancient Aliens were real, or some version of the narrative that there was some advanced civilization on Earth predating our own. Gobekli Tepe is an archaeological site in Turkey that has some genuinely strange things about it -- and it's one of the darlings of the alternate historians. What is really going on with it? Support the show and subscribe to the audio podcast at skeptoid.com/, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit.