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- That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
- I can’t tell if this scientific article summary is bad AI writing or bad human writing.
- Always assumed those scattered bones were just, well, scattered. It's cool how a new understanding of burial practices provides such a neat explanation.by ferrule
- It's not really clear to me what's so (figuratively) groundbreaking about this, especially given that Catalhuyuk already shows similar care for the dead not much later.by mihaic
- Was subfloor burial common in Neolithic?by MadrasTh0rn
- Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.by itopaloglu83
- The story of that place has changed so much. Almost everything that was claimed first is now 180° different. Such is progress, but maybe they shouldn't tell so many stories when they have incomplete data.
- More evidence for David Graeber and David Wengrow's reading of the site.
Between Göbekli Tepe, Poverty Point, Cahokia, and other sites we have pretty good evidence of complex urban societies that did not rely on agriculture. And even in these few sites we have abundant evidence of diversity of social structures from radically egalitarian to hierarchical
The linear narrative of the evolution of human societies is dead
by culi