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  1. Fancy feathers? 🪶

    #Zooarchaeology colleagues N. Pöllath & J. Peters have a new study in Arch. Anthr. Sci. 15, 2023 (🔓) on "#Bird exploitation in the Upper Euphrates & Tigris River basins", reviewing #GöbekliTepe's #GusirHöyük's #Neolithic #avifauna:

    link.springer.com/article/10.1

  2. By the way: For these #leopards themselves we do also find clear analogies within the region's and period's #iconography. Namely, again, at #GobekliTepe.

    (And the wonderful fur pattern here at #Sayburc also convince me to maybe finally give up our earlier #lion interpretation.)

  3. Interesting's also the combination of #Sayburc man & those #leopards by his sides.

    With bared teeth they seem to evoke danger. Such juxtaposition of virility & threat however finds parallels e.g. in the headless phallus-guy on #GobekliTepe's Pillar 43:

    dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams