Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, ha... more Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, have revealed the earliest megalithic ritual architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars. Although human burials are still absent from the site, a number of fragmented human bones have been recovered from fill deposits of buildings and from adjacent areas. We focus on three partially preserved human skulls, all of which carry artificial modifications of a type so far unknown from contemporaneous sites and the ethnographic record. As such, modified skull fragments from Göbekli Tepe could indicate a new, previously undocumented variation of skull cult in the Early Neolithic of Anatolia and the Levant.
Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International ... more Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International Archaeology and History Symposium: Harran and its Vicinity), 03 November 2017
Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, ha... more Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, have revealed the earliest megalithic ritual architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars. Although human burials are still absent from the site, a number of fragmented human bones have been recovered from fill deposits of buildings and from adjacent areas. We focus on three partially preserved human skulls, all of which carry artificial modifications of a type so far unknown from contemporaneous sites and the ethnographic record. As such, modified skull fragments from Göbekli Tepe could indicate a new, previously undocumented variation of skull cult in the Early Neolithic of Anatolia and the Levant.
Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International ... more Paper presented at "Uluslararası Harran ve Çevresi Tarih ve Arkeoloji Sempozyumu" (International Archaeology and History Symposium: Harran and its Vicinity), 03 November 2017
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