Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe (IMAGE)

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns

Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe

Caption

Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread. Vultures were not only the most important birds in the iconography of Early Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups, they were also hunted.

Credit

N. Pöllath, SNSB-SPM

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