Years ago, a German scientist (beats me who, at this point... ) told me about this idea, on some public forum, and graciously emailed me a picture of the mural. Gee whiz, I saddled right on the idea, but a few years later I read a critique of the idea, and the prospect that the “volcano” is actually an animal skin came to make more sense to me. A few years after that as I learned what a loony fraud Mellaart had a habit of being, I lost all interest in this “first news story in history”. Anyway, here’s a search for related stories:
Oh, okay, it’s still lurking in the recesses of the hard drive — the nice German was Achim Utzmann.