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Göbeklitepe's first intact burials may explain 30 years of scattered bones

As of September 2026: Publisher of the Göbeklitepe burial study

For 30 years, every dig season at Göbeklitepe turned up hundreds of fragmented human bones in the fill of its monumental stone buildings, and archaeologists read them as the remains of a Neolithic skull cult. The first two intact burials ever found at the site now suggest a blunter explanation: erosion and landslides carried the bones downhill from ordinary graves.

Updated Sep 29

80,000-year-old stone points may be the world's oldest arrowheads

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As of September 2026: Published the Obi-Rakhmat micro-point study on August 11, 2026

Tiny triangular stone points found in a Central Asian cave appear to be 80,000-year-old arrowheads, the oldest known in the world. The artifacts from Uzbekistan's Obi-Rakhmat site predate comparable points from Ethiopia by roughly 6,000 years.

Updated Sep 7