Become a Patron! First off, here are some pictures of the site at Gobekli Tepe: Here’s a picture of the single female figure found at the site (in Layer II): And here’s the Garden of Megapeens! It’s a Weird Scene, man. On to our sources! WorldHistory.org: Gobleki Tepe AA.org: Conservation, not Excavation, Focus in Gobleki Tepe Unesco: Gobleki Tepe BBC.com: an Immense Mystery Older than Stonehenge The Art Newspaper: Discovery of Turkish 11,400-year-old Village Challenges Ideas of When and Why Humans First Settled Down National Geographic: World’s Oldest Temple to Be Restored PLoS One: Cereal Processing at Early Neolithic Gobleki Tepe, Southeastern Turkey Newsweek: Archaeological Dig Reshaping Human History Science.org: Modified Human Crania from Gobleki Tepe Give Evidence for a New Form of Neolithic Skull Cult The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia Klaus Schmidt: The Stone Age Sanctuaries: New Results of Ongoing Excavations with a Special Focus on Sculptures and High Reliefs Penn Museum: Cult as a Driving Force of Human History Tepe Telegrams: the Current Distribution of Sites with T-Shaped Pillars Tepe Telegraphs: Two Foxes and a Bucranium: the First In Situ Portal Stone from Gobleki Tepe Oliver Dietrich and Klaus Schmidt: a Radiocarbon Date from the Wall Plaster [...]