Zeitgeist did a lot of mistakes when it comes to this matter – dates and facts doesn’t fit. However, their main idea is totally correct.
When it comes our civilization it was created in the northern Mesopotamia (the Armenian Highland) by the Hurrians (the Aryans) for around 10.000 years ago.
Gobekli Tepe (in armenian: Portasar – which means the navel) is seen as the first place of organized religion. From their the civilization spread to all directions, with religion, mythology, philosophy and science. Armenia is a continuation of Urartu, or Ararat.
The different gods, which is different aspects of the nature, got spread, but because of distances they sometimes got different names and some changes when it comes to the different details.
For me this is not a way to show that Christianity, which perfectly fits with this line of thinking, is fake, but the opposite.
When it comes to the knowledge of this ancient civilization and its roots it is amazing that they knew that much as they did, and that they described our relation to nature and in which way we should live not to destroy the balance wich exists in nature.
The Hurrians and the Urartians were the proto population in Southwest Asia, and especially in the Armenian Highland, were agriculture, domestication and development of metallurgi took place, spread the civilization, both through demic and cultural diffusion, which means the ideas and things in one culture “borrowed” by another culture.
The hurro-Urartian languages is both older than Indo-European and Semitic languages and cultures. It is closely connected with North Caucasian languages and Indo-European. There is also close similarities with Semitic languages. Armenian seems to be a direct development from the Hurro-Urartian languages.
The demic model assumes that the Neolithic range expansion was mainly due to the spread of populations, and the cultural model considers that it was essentially due to the spread of ideas.
Cultural diffusion explains ∼40% of the spread rate of the Neolithic transition in Europe, as implied by archaeological data. Thus, cultural diffusion cannot be neglected, but demic diffusion was the most important mechanism in this major historical process at the continental scale.
Demic diffusion is a demographic term referring to a migratory model, developed by Cavalli-Sforza, that consists of population diffusion into and across an area previously uninhabited by that group, possibly, but not necessarily, displacing, replacing, or intermixing with a pre-existing population (such as has been suggested for the spread of agriculture across Neolithic Europe and several other Landnahme events).
It seems likely that the spread of agriculture into Europe occurred by the expansion and spread of agriculturists, possibly originating in the Fertile crescent of the Near East region. This is referred to as the Neolithic demic diffusion model. Craniometric and archaeological studies have also arrived at the same conclusion.
Current evidence suggests that Neolithic material culture was introduced to Europe via western Anatolia, and that similarities in cultures of North Africa and the Pontic steppes are due to diffusion out of Europe.
All Neolithic sites in Europe contain ceramics, and contain the plants and animals domesticated in Southwest Asia: einkorn, emmer, barley, lentils, pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle.
Genetic data suggest that no independent domestication of animals took place in Neolithic Europe, and that all domesticated animals were originally domesticated in Southwest Asia.
Archaeologists seem to agree that the culture of the early Neolithic is relatively homogeneous, compared both to the late Mesolithic and the later Neolithic. The diffusion across Europe, from the Aegean to Britain, took about 2,500 years (6500 BC – 4000 BC).
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