Julia Gresky

Osteologist, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Georg-August University Göttingen

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Göbeklitepe's first intact burials may explain 30 years of scattered bones

Led analysis of Göbeklitepe's human remains since 2009; co-author of the PLOS One study

For 30 years, every dig season at Göbeklitepe turned up hundreds of fragmented human bones in the fill of its monumental stone buildings, and archaeologists read them as the remains of a Neolithic skull cult. The first two intact burials ever found at the site now suggest a blunter explanation: erosion and landslides carried the bones downhill from ordinary graves.

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