Microscopic analysis showed that the grooves on the Göbekli Tepe skull fragments were deliberately made with a flint tool.
Sources
- Hints of Skull Cult Found at World's Oldest Temple (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700564 (science.org)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-temple-shows-evidence-stone-age-skull-cult-180963877/ (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/carved-gobekli-tepe-4322/ (zmescience.com)
- https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2017/06/29/mysterious-death-rituals-gobekli-tepe/ (archaeology.wiki)
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