11,000-Year-Old Boar Statue Uncovered at Gobekli Tepe
" Excavators at the site of Gobekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey have uncovered the life-size statue of a wild boar, carved out of limestone. According to a statement by the German Archaeological Institute, the statue dates to the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c. 8700–8200 BCE). The boar is yet another of the dozens of statues and reliefs discovered at the incredible cultic site of Gobekli Tepe. Described as Turkey’s Stonehenge, Gobekli Tepe predates that site, as well as the Egyptian pyramids and even the invention of writing, by more than 5,000 years."
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