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The Neolithic culture which build Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia lived a considerable distance from this perhaps-a-temple complex. Like the Poverty Point culture, it didn't live there.
Just because they didn't build a palace doesn't mean they didn't have a hierarchy. Those mounds would have required an intricate hierarchy to get the people there, feed them, house them.