The modified skull fragments found at Göbekli Tepe date to approximately 10,000 to 7,000 years ago.
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.archaeology.wiki/blog/2017/06/29/mysterious-death-rituals-gobekli-tepe/ (archaeology.wiki)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5489262 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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