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12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

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  1. jamesforestwest · · focus · HN ↗
    That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
    1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
      The point of naming it a "skull cult" is really just pointing out people found human remains to be important—something largely true today too, and hardly more romantic than our own understanding of burial.
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