(Please read from the start)
Naturally, at some point, regardless if it’s before or after the ice age, the Flood waters receded. And naturally, as the waters receded the land parcel around Mount Ararat grew and the survivors started to wander, explore and at some point started to migrate. But there was the problem of the mountain chain called the Taurus: as I’ve explained before (starting page 11 – about Armenia geography and weather), it’s impossible to cross on foot easily due to many disadvantages and dangers. So the survivors of the Cataclysm didn’t go directly South, nor did they go directly North, nor East. The lingered around in the mountains for some time.
Look at the maps anons: the Armenian heartland is surrounded by 3 sides which were hard to cross on foot. They can be crossed, but with great risk and difficulty. So the easiest route for the survivors to go is actually West. That’s the path most of the survivors would have taken logically. I’m sure there were some, like groups, whom ventured in all different directions, but I believe the largest groups went West first, because the geography, hydrology and the weather made it so (as explained before). It’s by going West that the survivors came upon the sources of the Euphrates and from there gradually, as the water receded, navigated downstream.
But this didn’t happen overnight. It’s not a matter of days, weeks, months or even a few years. I think this is a matter of thousands of years. With each few hundred of years, the water receded and new land was uncovered. As people’s numbers grew larger demographically, they started to migrate = having many waves of migrations. They started to build new settlements like GobekliTepe, abandoning the old ones with higher altitude + less fertile land where it was getting much colder. They started to seek warmer climate and more fertile lands, which is normal if you think about it. The survivor’s number grew so much that at one point, they started to split up into huge groups. Some of these groups went downstream Euphrates, others stayed in the settlements they already build like Gobekli Tepe, while others headed even more West. This is why I’ve said so many time that the Euphrates is like a chronological spine.
The more we go upstream, the more ancient chronologically the settlements get. It’s like we are rewinding the migration movement of the Cataclysm survivors by going upstream = following the breadcrumbs of Hansel and Gretel all the way back to the starting point which is Mt. Ararat. By finding the old settlements in the Armenian Plateau and the Taurus mountain range (like Gobekli Tepe) we can find the itinerary of the migrating groups and rewind their footsteps all the way up to the Ark. This is how Gobekli Tepe is estimated to date back to 9 000 B.C. Aleppo was founded around 5000 B.C.; while Ur and Uruk are estimated to date back around 4 000 B.C. All of these are estimations.
GobekliTepe was built and people lived there when the waters were at a certain level = downstream Euphrates was still under the Flood waters then. It took from around 9 000 B.C. to around 4000 B.C. for the Flood waters to recede completely and people be able to travel downstream and settle there = in the locations later known as Ur and Uruk. So that’s more or less around 5000 years of “waiting” for the waters clear “land” from the location of Gobekli Tepe to the lowlands of Mesopotamia. Same thing happened in the Andean Region.
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