 So page 83 from food and gauze by Terence McKenna. Qatal yuk, quote, If the Tassili and Ajir can claim consideration as the original Eden and Western-most location of partnership culture, then certainly Qatal yuk in in central Anatolia must be seen as its Neolithic and Eastern culmination. Qatal yuk has been called, quote, a premature flash of brilliance and complexity, and quote, and quote, an immensely rich and luxurious city, end quote. The stratigraphy for the site begins in the middle of the 19th millennial BC. Elaboration of cultural forms reaches a pinnacle in Qatal level 6 in the middle of the 7th millennial BC. Qatal yuk was a huge settlement spreading over 32 acres of the Kania plain and at its peak accommodating over 7,000 people. Although barely begun, the excavation of Qatal yuk has already yielded amazing shrines with cattle-based reliefs and heads of new extinct aroch covered with ochre basins. The very complex paintings of a complicated civilization, figure 8, which is the figure we looked at, Qatal yuk's complexity has puzzled archaeologists, quote, less than 3% of the site has been explored, but Qatal yuk has already yielded the wealth of religious art and symbolism that appears to be three or four thousand years ahead of its time. The mature complexity of the traditions of this Neolithic site further presupposes accordingly to the excavator, an upper Paleolithic ancestral of whom we have no trace, end quote. In content that the quote upper Paleolithic ancestors of which we have no trace, end quote, is the culture of the Tassili and Ajir. The Natufian culture was a traditional culture directly linking the round-head culture in Africa with Qatal yuk. In support of this rather startling statement, consider the following observations by other scholars. Malat said of agriculture at Qatal, quote, everything indicates that the plant husbandry of Qatal yuk must have a long prehistory somewhere else in a region where the wild ancestors of these plants were at home, presumably in hilly country, were well away from the man-made environment of the Ponio Plain. The beginnings must be sought in the Natufian of Palestine, the still unknown earlier academic of the Anatolian Plateau of Turkey and in Kazakhstan, further to the east. Here is Malat on the material culture of Qatal. In contrast to other contemporary Neolithic cultures, Qatal yuk preserved the number of traditions that seem archaic in a fully developed Neolithic society. The art of well painting, the reliefs modeled in clay or cut out of wall plaster, the naturalistic representation of animals, human figures and deities, the occasional use of finger impression clay designs like macaroni, the developed use of geometric ornaments including spirals and meanders, incisors on seals or transferred to a new medium of weaving, the modeling of animals wounded in hunting rites, the practice of red ochre burials, the archaic amulets in the form of a bird-like steta peogus goddess and finally certain types of stone tools and the preference for the talium shells in jewelry. All preserved remains of an upper paleolithic heritage to a greater or less extent. Such archaic elements are also traceable in a number of other post-paleolithic cultures such as the Nafuyen of Palestine but nowhere are they so pronounced as in the Neolithic of Qatal yuk. So this is talking about the ancient prehistory of ancient civilizations, human history, which sort of links up to the live stream with it previously, right? And figure eight, this figure here, this figure here, and my apologies me brutalizing all these names and stuff. I'm just going to read you the description here. Figure eight, religious shrine at Qatal yuk from Qatal yuk in Neolithic town in Atalolia by James Malut. Okay, San Francisco McGraw Hill Books Company 1967, figure 41, page 128.