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"Look Klaus Bey, that stone's got ears!"
Sometimes, starting excavations in a new area, you only got a vague idea about what's really waiting below topsoil.
This is how innocent the now famous so-called #TotemPole from #GöbekliTepe peeked out upon its very first appearance.
Sometimes, starting excavations in a new area, you only got a vague idea about what's really waiting below topsoil.
This is how innocent the now famous so-called #TotemPole from #GöbekliTepe peeked out upon its very first appearance.
Oliver put together a nice little thread here telling how the story of this discovery continued on after that first glimpse:
This find (calling it a #CompositeSculpture may be the more appropriate archaeological terminology) is of special interest since it represents a special type of early #Neolithic sculpture in the region also known from other sites:
