Well, the boar's out of the bag: There's yet *another* great recent discovery from Pre-Pottery #Neolithic Anatolia!🙌
A, with 130 cm life-sized (!), #boar sculpture 🐗, including traces of former painting (!!) 🧑🎨 with red, black, and white pigments from #GöbekliTepe:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-discoveries-never-end-says-head-of-excavations-186715
Large #boar sculptures & #colour pigments playing an important role in early #Neolithic rituals at #GöbekliTepe - a great find!
Not completely unexpected though. 😉
Here's an illustration I made in 2020 for @lauradietrich's extensive study of i.a. saddle querns from the site ...
"Wait, which study?!" you ask? 🤔
This one:
L. Dietrich, #PlantFood Processing Tools at Early Neolithic #GöbekliTepe, Archaeopress 2021.
Jens Notroff