Lecture at BOOM FESTIVAL 2018, 22 - 29 July 2018
Idanha-A-Nova Lake, PORTUGAL
Website Dr. Massimo Izzo at BOOM Festival
Description:
In this presentation Massimo will lead us on a visual and narrative journey to reveal the secrets of this unique site, the first ever built by Homo Sapiens, the first ever to represent Human’s effort to use geometry to create a sacred site for gathering different nomadic tribes at the very early dawn of civilization.
This presentation revolves around the most important archaeological and architectural discovery of the 21th century: Gobekli Tepe. This is a hill in Turkey which is covered with several oval monumental structures, thought to be for the ceremonial gathering of prehistoric nomad hunter-gatherers.
Its exceptionality resides in the fact that it was built around 9500 BC, in a time when people were still nomadic. The huge stone structures are fitted with monumental pillars of geometrical shape, a first in history, most of them decorated with incredibly beautiful animals of high symbolical meaning and thus providing the first example ever of nature-based representations with human-made geometrical structures.
In this presentation Massimo will lead us on a visual and narrative journey to reveal the secrets of this unique site, the first ever built by Homo Sapiens, the first ever to represent Human’s effort to use geometry to create a sacred site for gathering different nomadic tribes at the very early dawn of civilization. The presentation will show in detail the site, the different archeological interpretations and its place and meaning compared to preceding and following cultures.
Date of the Lecture : 23 July 2018, h. 21.00
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