Limestone boar statue from Gobekli Tepe.Courtesy DAI-IST, Lee Clare.
Limestone boar statue from Gobekli Tepe.Courtesy DAI-IST, Lee Clare.
Fascinating. You’d think that everybody living in the Neolithic Period would be spending 100% of every waking hour obtaining food. I’m amazed that people had the time needed to make all these ornate carvings. There was no currency or coinage in that era. How did the sculptures get paid? Did other people just provide them food and clothing?
Makes you wonder how their society was organized and how people had time for a “profession” such as sculpture.
vultures, scorpions, lions, bulls, boars, foxes, gazelles, donkeys, snakes, human figures, and more.
And no veggies or grains...
BBQ restaurant......
Gobekli Tepe also is where the oldest evidence yet has been found of the brewing of barley (= beer).
