Archaeologists in no hurry to dig Gobleke tepe

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Despite significant earth shattering dating for Gobleke tepe, taking the advanced structure back 15,000 years ago, archaeologists seem in no hurry to dig.

A recent discovery of living quarters now blows a theory hunter gatherers built the site as a shrine and didn't live there because they didn't know how to make houses but lived in mud huts
Now makes this the oldest inhabited site in the world. But bizarrely the German archaeological team are hanging their boots saying they will leave the digging to 'future generations" despite only 10% of the site being dug. It estimated it will take another 150 years to completely finish the excavations. Sounds weird? they discover something big then decide somebody else can find more later?

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archa ... cle-843802

They are hoping that there will be better technology in the future, like the ability to read dead sea scrolls that were charred by fire. That is a new technology just being developed.

Most likely they have all they need for their careers as archaeologists. Why not leave some work for future generations of archaeologists?

The political situation is not good for science right now. Misinformation runs rampant.
Science has been in a bad way politically for decades. Maybe it will be better in the future?

On the surface the techniques used aren't innovative. Just digging around the structures which were actually buried by the builders. the site was ignored as natural mounds and only excavated in 1991 after a German archaeologist misidentified the carvings as medieval (they never dreamed such advanced carvings were made during the ice age, 15,000 years ago). the animal carvings are not just detailed, dynamic but they are also 3D. completely at odds with the crude stone carvings of female goddesses and cave paintings found in Europe. Nothing actually makes sense.

As with Egypt with subterranean pillars under the pyramids, the moment when something big is unearthed (in Gobleke tepe its the discovery the people built houses) there seems to be an urgency to delay further inquiry.