Editing 9th millennium BC (section)

===Near East===
From the beginning of the 9th millennium, [[Göbekli Tepe]] was inhabited after possibly being first occupied during the previous millennium.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Oliver Dietrich |author2=Çigdem Köksal-Schmidt |author3=Jens Notroff |author4=Klaus Schmidt |title=Establishing a Radiocarbon Sequence for Göbekli Tepe. State of Research and New Data |journal=NEO-LITHICS 1/13 the Newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic Research |date=2016 |url=https://www.academia.edu/4386577}}</ref> It is a carved stone hilltop sanctuary in south-eastern [[Anatolia]] which includes the world's oldest known [[megaliths]].<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/ |title=Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? |last=Curry |first=Andrew |date=November 2008 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> As with Göbekli Tepe, the site at [[Tell Qaramel]], in north-west [[Syria]], was inhabited from 9000 BC following possible first occupation in the previous millennium.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/viewFile/3532/3047|title=Tell Qaramel 1999–2007. Protoneolithic and early Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement in Northern Syria.|publisher=Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw|year=2012|isbn=978-83-90379-63-0|editor1-last=Mazurowski|editor1-first=Ryszard F.|series=PCMA Excavation Series 2|location=Warsaw, Poland|editor2-last=Kanjou|editor2-first=Youssef}}</ref> In the same region, the settlement at [[Nevalı Çori]] has been dated about 8500 BC.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tobolczyk |first1=Marta |title=The World's Oldest Temples in Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori, Turkey in the Light of Studies in Ontogenesis of Architecture |journal=Procedia Engineering |date=2016 |volume=161 |pages=1398–1404 |doi=10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.600 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Elsewhere in the Fertile Crescent, there is evidence of settlements at [[Mureybet]] and [[Ganj Dareh]] from around 8500 BC. Towards the end of the millennium, by 8200 BC, the site of [[Aşıklı Höyük]] in central Anatolia was first occupied (until around 7400 BC).<ref>Thissen, L. 2002. Appendix I, "The CANeW 14C databases, Anatolia 10,000-5000 cal. BC". In "The Neolithic of Central Anatolia. Internal developments and external relations during the 9th–6th millennia cal BC", ''Proc. Int. CANeW Round Table'', Istanbul 23–24 November 2001, edited by F. Gérard and L. Thissen. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları.</ref>