Unique discovery: At the UNESCO World Heritage Site of #GöbekliTepe in Türkiye the life-sized statue of a wild #boar, including remains of its original red, black and white colour, has been found during recent excavations by #Istanbul_DAI and #IstanbulUniversity:
When the quick bright fox jumps over the colourful scorpion … you've got some wonderful friends sending you the latest #GöbekliTepe merch from Turkey. 😉 Çok teşekkürler! 🙏
Maybe fuelled by outdated ideas regarding #Neolithic hunter-gatherers, there seems kind of a misunderstanding about the "#pottery" part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN).
They actually did use vessels. Just other vessels.
Bringing up these #GöbekliTepe fragments in particular here since they illustrate why finding complete vessels is comparably rare: the material was too valuable to not re-use it.