Since 1998, archaeozoologist Joris Peters of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich has examined more than 100,000 bone fragments from Göbekli Tepe, of which gazelle bones account for more than 60 percent of the total.
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- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://skepdic.com/gobeklitepe.html (skepdic.com)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2013.820648 (tandfonline.com)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/relationality-immanence-hierarchy-the-nature-and-culture-of-beings-at-gobekli-tepe/BFD2AB47632CB6389F90705901766DA7 (cambridge.org)
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