Saturday, 5 April 2025

A Superior American Gobekli Tepe as Justification of Online MAGAmerican Pseudoarchaeological Turk-bashing


Frankly the MAGAmerican critics of the foreign GobekliTepe site display like You Tubers Jimmy Corsetti (@BrightInsight6) and Mike Collins () seem to think themselves in some way superior to the Turkish archaeological resource management milieu and miss no opportunity to slag them off in very nasty bad faith and frankly ill-mannered terms.

Let us take a look at how well their own country deals with sites like this. Of course the USA has no structures, still less monumental ones from the immediate post-Younger Dryas times to compare with Gobekli Tepe, but we can look at major sites of the (near contemporary) Clovis and Folsom fluted point types that have been displayed like this.

The first that comes to mind is the covered display of the excavated Blackwater Draw site in Roosevelt Co, New Mexico where the site museum just blends into the landscape...

Google Earth

here you are, impressive, eh? "Just" as good as Gobekli Tepe, eh Mr Corsetti? ...

http://lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/blackwaterinterpretivewelllrg.htm

let's take a look inside. Oh dear, and those walls, do they have any foundations? No? Awkward. As for the comments that a whole bunch of self-absorbed mouthy MAGAmericans are addressing to the Turkish authorities, the "excavation does not seem to have made much progress" since the 1990s, "looks like a tourist site", no, @BrightInsight6? Is there some kind of a qualitative difference between this and what we can see at Gobekli Tepe? Do you not owe the Turks and the excavation team an apology?

Site museum, note foundations cut down below level of finds, 
excavation incomplete (as was criticised in the case of Gobekli)
https://www.newmexico.org/listing/blackwater-draw-museum/2255/

Here's a video of this US interpretive centre (looks a bit of a tip inside to me) but @BrightInsight6 and the MAGAmerican critics think it is the Turks who are "not coming up to global standards"


posted on You Tube by Eastern New Mexico University Nov 24, 2020

Then we could compare the Turkish site with the manner of display of the contemporary excavated Murray Springs Arizona Clovis site - but here there are no buses to take tourists to the visiting area but a 1.2km hike

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Or we could compare Gobekli Tepe to the concreted paths and covered area of the display of contemporary partially excavated Lindenmeier site in Larimer Co, Colorado with a roof with posts dug deep into site, just like the US YouTubers complain they area at Gobekli Tepe. 

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In comparing the online community's trashing of the work done at Gobekli Tepe, we cannot miss out the covered display of contemporary partially excavated (+pre-Clovis) Gault site in Texas partially quarried away. Definitely one that visitors to the USA interested in the country's past should not fail to see. 

Google Earth 
 
I really think that tourists from Trump's America with their smug superiority and entitlement need first to take a good hard and objective look at how their own country deals with its own heritage before loudly slagging off the efforts of others. 

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