Bigging up Hancock's Göbekli

Luke Caverns and History with Kayleigh (Kayleigh During): "There’s a Big Problem with Göbekli Tepe's "Simple" Hunter-Gatherers", they begin with Caverns intoning the mantra that is the basis of the hyperbole of the whole rediscovering-the-wheel video:

So, I have a problem with the way that people view and talk about the people of Gobecley and the Taş [he pronounces it "tars"] Tepeler world. They weren't simple hunter gatherers like is (sic) often said and actually in my opinion whether or not they hunted or gathered is honestly irrelevant and should have nothing to do with the value or the weight that we place on that culture or their incredible achievements.

Yet they cite absolutely no reference to a source of the statement that "people" (that's like the "people-say" of one of Donald Trump's retarded "sir-stories") view and talk dismissively about the people of Göbekli as "simple hunter gatherers". He goes on dramatically

"the people who built Göbekli and the greater Taş Tepeler world leaped out of the primordial world that had existed since the dawn of mankind. Simply the idea of erecting megalithic stone monuments and building structures with walls and roofs, these are literally some of the foundations of civilization. The very conception of these ideas would ultimately separate humanity from the animal food chain".

          Decorated hunter-gatherer megaxylons (Alaska c. 1910)         

Who'd have thought keeping out of the rain and putting a hunk of wood or stone on one end were such a leap eh?

What is disturbing is that these two clearly have not been anywhere near a library, or even looked up online the vast amount of literature on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and related Natufian where discussions of these themes have been pretty much staple since the sites concerned were first discovered (and Natufian we're talking about Dorothy Garrod's work of the end of the 1920s and later discussions). I include a(n old) map of PPN sites with botanical sampling in the Middle East to ask the question, just how thoroughly these two content creators have familiarised themselves with the archaeological literature on each of them before pontificating on camera about [map from Michael Wallace et al.  2019, ‘Re-analysis of archaeobotanical remains from pre- and early agricultural sites provides no evidence for a narrowing of the wild plant food spectrum during the origins of agriculture in southwest Asia’, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 28. 10.1007/s00334-018-0702-y.] . Let's just list those sites, because YouTubers like these need to be called-out on producing superficial statements as some form of "knowledge" on their part.

IT'S MORE THAN JUST "GOBEKJLI TEPE" !!!

Fig. 1  Map of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites in southwest Asiawith archaeobotanical remains included in the database. Black symbols indicate sites for which sample-level data was available; white symbols indicate sites for which sample-level data was unavailable. Central Anatolian sites — 1: Hacılar, 2: Erbaba, 3: Çatalhöyük East, 4: Can Hasan III and 5: Aşikli Höyük. Cypriot sites—6: Mylouthkia, 7: Ais Yiorkis and 8: Kastros. Southern Levantine sites—9: Hayonim Cave, 10: Yiftahel, 11: Nahal Oren, 12: Kebara Cave, 13: Atlit Yam, 14: Gilgal, 15: Netiv Hagdud, 16: Jericho, 17: Nahal Hemar, 18: Wadi Faynan 16, 19: Shkarat Msaied, 20: Beidha, 21: Ayn Abu Nukhayla, 22: Tell Ramad, 23: Gesher Benot Yaaqov, 24: Ohalo II, 25: Gesher, 26: Wadi al-Hammeh 27, 27: Iraq ed-Dubb, 28: Ain Ghazal, 29: Wadi el-Jilat 13, 30: Wadi el-Jilat 6 & 7, 31: Zahrat adh Dhra 2, 32: el-Hemmeh, 33: Wadi Fidan A, 34: Wadi Fidan C, 35: Basta I, 36: Tell Ghoraifé, 37: Tell Aswad, 38: Dhuweilla and 39: Azraq 31. Northern Levantine sites—40: Tell Ain el-Kerkh, 41: Tell Ras Shamra, 42: Tell Qaramel, 43: Tell Abr, 44: Dj’ade, 45: Halula, 46: Jerf el Ahmar, 47: Mureybet, 48: Abu Hureyra, 49: Douara Cave, 50: Cafer Höyük, 51: Gritille, 52: Nevali Çori, 53: Göbekli Tepe, 54: Tell Sabi Abyad II, 55: El Kowm I & II, 56: Çayönü and 57: Tell Bouqras. Sites of the eastern Fertile Crescent—58: Hallan Çemi, 59: Demirkoy, 60: Kortik Tepe, 61: Tell Maghzaliyeh, 62: Qermez Dere, 63: Yarym Tepe, 64: Nemrik 9, 65: Mlefaat, 66: Jarmo, 67: Chogha Golan, 68: Sheikh-e Abad, 69: Chia Sabz, 70: Tepe Ali Kosh, 71: Ganj Dareh Tepe, 72: Tepe Abdul Hosein and 73: Chogha Bonut.