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Elif and Murat walked away from the cave to look for help. They tried to use the landmarks they remembered, but the land around them did not match what they knew. Murat told Elif they had to stay calm and keep moving.
Soon they found footprints, stone tools, and smoke in the distance. When they heard human voices, they hid. That was when they understood the people nearby were not modern.
After that, they saw workers carrying stones and simple wooden tools. The workers were building an early sacred site. Elif realized they were close to the first stage of Gobeklitepe.
The couple accepted that they had entered the hunter-gatherer era. They were afraid of the danger, but they also began to understand that they might be witnessing history as it happened.