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Animals and a Headless Man at Göbekli Tepe (Short Note, Neo-Lithics 2/06, pp. 38–40)

Klaus Schmidt · 2006

AI-verified citationSRC-SCHMIDT-2006

identifier / locator: Neo-Lithics 2/06: 38–40
url: http://www.exoriente.org/docs/00066.pdf
verification note: text retrieved and shown to the drafter on 2026-09-19 (run 2026-09-19-draft-deep-memory-121715); passages checked by the verify verb
reliability notes: Primary excavator's report, published in the newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic research (ex oriente); the PDF is the whole issue, the note occupies [p. 38]–[p. 40] of the file.
The retrieved PDF text was truncated near the end of p. 40; the passages quoted here sit on [p. 39] and [p. 40] before the truncation.
Figure captions date Enclosures C and D 'about 9000 BC', earlier than the founder page's 'c. 9500 BCE'; the ledger holds no claim on the absolute date.

Evidence drawn from this source

Supports· strongDEEP-E025

what the source states: In his 2006 short note the excavator describes the upper part of Pillar 43's western side: above the pattern of angles between the vulture and the 'ibis' one sees "three big, similarly carved box-like objects with handle-like attachments", with another line of angles forming the upper limit of the relief.
what we infer: This is the excavation team's own first published description of the forms, and it is the record the earlier declined 'top register' claim required. Note the excavator's words are 'box-like' and 'handle-like'; he does not name a function.
limitations: Preliminary field note, not a final publication.
Describes shape only; says nothing about function.

Supports· strongDEEP-E026

what the source states: The same sentence continues that the three "objects with handle-like attachments, each accompanied by an" animal, sit immediately above the pattern of angles.
what we infer: The founder's caption 'three arched objects with small animals' matches the excavator's description on this point.
limitations: The word 'animal' is hyphenated across a line break in the PDF ('ani-mal'); the quote stops before it.