One of the Göbekli Tepe skull fragments has a drilled hole, resembling modifications made by the Naga people of India to suspend skulls from strings.
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.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/06/28/new-publication-in-science-advances-evidence-for-skull-cult-at-gobekli-tepe/ (dainst.blog)
- https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/carved-gobekli-tepe-4322/ (zmescience.com)
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