Early excavations at Göbekli Tepe uncovered tens of thousands of wild-animal bones, chiefly gazelle, along with wild plant remains, and initially reported no hearths, houses or trash pits, though later excavations found evidence of habitation such as houses, hearths and cisterns.
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe | Neolithic, Prehistoric, Monument, & Map (britannica.com)
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/article/234/gobekli-tepe---the-worlds-first-temple/ (worldhistory.org)
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/American_River_College/HUM_300:_Classical_Humanities_Textbook_(Collom)/02:_Prehistory/2.06:_Gobekli_Tepe (human.libretexts.org)
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