A focused subcomparison of Birdmen across two worlds. It is not independent evidence for the same proposed link.
Neolithic Anatolia
Pillar 43 · bird and disc
One composition within the wider Anatolian repertoire.
Why these examples belong together
A deliberately narrow subset, used to inspect the specific relation between a bird and a rounded form.
object · Göbekli Tepe
Pillar 43
One carved surface contains several animals and signs. The disc’s meaning and the upper arched forms remain disputed.
Dates, sources & image record
10th–9th millennia BCEsite context · Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif. Date source
photograph · DAI / K. Schmidt. Copyright; reproduced for critical comparison. Image record Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.
Another view of this examplePillar 43 in a second photograph; the same carved face DAI / Göbekli Tepe Project; original study attribution · Copyright DAI; retained for criticism and commentary, not freely licensed · Image record None: copied or downloaded bytes unchanged
Rapanui traditions
Orongo · birdman and rounded form
The carved boulder in a museum record and an early photograph.
Why these examples belong together
One physical object, even when several photographs are consulted.
object · Orongo · Rapa Nui
Orongo birdman boulder
Museum number Oc1920,0506.1. A rounded form is close to the bent hand; the source reads it as an egg.
Dates, sources & image record
c. 1750–1875 CEcatalogue estimate · Approximate museum date; not direct dating of the motif. Date source
historical photograph · Katherine Routledge / Mana Expedition. Public domain. Image record Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.
A bird beside a rounded shape is broad; a particular posture and placement could be more distinctive. This is a focused subcomparison within the larger birdman inquiry.
Guest article, 19 October 2024. Proposes ribbed-figure and bird-with-rounded-object parallels. Its medical and ancestral interpretations are not established by the photographs.
