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The sacred before writing
Ritual, symbols and burial before written sources.
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Ian Hodder
An archaeologist who directed the Çatalhöyük project from 1993 to 2018 and read its buildings as houses of dwelling and memory, not necessarily separate temples.
The south area at Çatalhöyük in 2003, under a modern shelter, during the project Ian Hodder directed. Not his portrait and not the houses while they were occupied
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Marc Verhoeven
An archaeologist at RAAP in the Netherlands who on 13 June 2025 published a study of humans and animals in Göbekli Tepe’s imagery.
A wild-boar sculpture from Göbekli Tepe in a Şanlıurfa Museum display. It illustrates the animal imagery Marc Verhoeven discusses, not his portrait and not the central pillars
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Oliver Dietrich
An archaeologist on the Göbekli Tepe project since 2005, writing on its pillars, feasting and Urfa Man.
Building D at Göbekli Tepe, one of the buildings whose pillar arrangement Oliver Dietrich discussed. The roof, walkway and braces are modern protective structures. Contextual site photograph
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Klaus Schmidt
A German prehistorian who directed the Göbekli Tepe excavations from 1995 until his death on 20 July 2014.
Klaus Schmidt, the Göbekli Tepe archaeologist, at the Monumento fair in Salzburg on 16 January 2014. Not a photograph from the excavation
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