Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult
Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult
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哥贝克力石阵的改良人类头骨为新石器时代头骨崇拜的新形式提供了证据
作者：
J. Gresky;Juliane Haelm;Lee Clare
从一个大约11,000年前的仪式现场雕刻和钻孔的头骨碎片指向一个没有记录的头骨崇拜的变化。在土耳其东南部的新石器时代过渡遗址Göbekli Tepe进行的考古发掘揭示了最早的巨石仪式建筑，具有典型的T形支柱。虽然该遗址仍然没有人类墓葬，但从建筑物的填充沉积物和邻近地区发现了一些破碎的人骨。我们专注于三个部分保存的人类头骨，所有这些都进行了人工修改的类型，迄今为止未知的同时代的网站和人种学记录。因此，来自哥贝克力石阵的修改过的头骨碎片可能表明了安纳托利亚和黎凡特新石器时代早期头骨崇拜的一种新的、以前没有记录的变异。
Carved and drilled skull fragments from a circa 11,000-year-old ritual site point to an undocumented variation of skull cult. Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, have revealed the earliest megalithic ritual architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars. Although human burials are still absent from the site, a number of fragmented human bones have been recovered from fill deposits of buildings and from adjacent areas. We focus on three partially preserved human skulls, all of which carry artificial modifications of a type so far unknown from contemporaneous sites and the ethnographic record. As such, modified skull fragments from Göbekli Tepe could indicate a new, previously undocumented variation of skull cult in the Early Neolithic of Anatolia and the Levant.