Carved birds among animal ensembles at Göbekli Tepe.
Why these examples belong together
Five named local pillars from the excavation-team accounts, retained together to examine variation. They are not a representative count of all Neolithic birds.
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
object · Göbekli Tepe
Pillar 2
A local comparator for birds and animal combinations; it does not duplicate Pillar 43’s composition.
Dates, sources & image record
10th–9th millennia BCEsite context · Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif. Date source
photograph · Teomancimit. CC BY-SA 3.0. Image record Unchanged 750-pixel display rendition from World History Encyclopedia; original retained by the project.
The robust bent legs matter to the local bird–human interpretation.
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 DAI; source photograph for critical comparison.. Image record Source-provided rendition; downloaded bytes unchanged. Annotations are separate SVG overlays.
Multiple birds belong to one pillar, not several independent artefacts.
Dates, sources & image record
10th–9th millennia BCEsite context · Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif. Date source
photograph · DAI / Göbekli Tepe Project. Copyright DAI; source photograph for critical comparison.. Image record Source-provided rendition; downloaded bytes unchanged. Annotations are separate SVG overlays.
A local anatomical contrast; the source treats these legs as more naturalistic.
Dates, sources & image record
10th–9th millennia BCEsite context · Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif. Date source
photograph · DAI / N. Becker. Copyright DAI; source photograph for critical comparison.. Image record Source-provided rendition; downloaded bytes unchanged. Annotations are separate SVG overlays.
