{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "edition": "2026-09-20",
  "title": "Deep Memory · A catalogue of distant resemblances",
  "scope": "Motif families across cultural traditions, with explicit observations, attributed comparisons and unresolved source leads. Selected examples, not a worldwide prevalence survey.",
  "date_convention": "Signed historical years: -1 = 1 BCE, +1 = 1 CE; no year zero. Intervals include their endpoints. Dates retain their event type and uncertainty; a null range means unresolved.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "p43",
      "title": "Pillar 43: of animals and a headless man",
      "url": "https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/10/14/of-animals-and-a-headless-man-gobekli-tepe-pillar-43/",
      "kind": "excavation",
      "note": "Excavation-team discussion of the depicted animals and competing readings of the disc and upper forms.",
      "author": "Oliver Dietrich / DAI",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "gt-dates",
      "title": "The Göbekli Tepe research project",
      "url": "https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/home/",
      "kind": "excavation",
      "note": "Site chronology: tenth and ninth millennia BCE. This is a context range, not a direct date of every carving.",
      "author": "DAI",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "hoa",
      "title": "Hoa Hakananai’a: collection record",
      "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc1869-1005-1",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Identifies the statue and back carvings; construction and later carving episodes must be separated.",
      "author": "British Museum",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "moai",
      "title": "Moai: objects, histories and Rapanui perspectives",
      "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection/moai",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Museum account gives an early traditional statue date and a later birdman tradition. Its settlement chronology differs from recent research.",
      "author": "British Museum",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "boulder",
      "title": "Birdman boulder · Oc1920,0506.1",
      "url": "https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/birdman-boulder/-QEzFc9ehfO2ng",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Orongo provenance, birdman with rounded object, and an approximate 1750–1875 catalogue date.",
      "author": "British Museum / Google Arts & Culture",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "routledge",
      "title": "The Mystery of Easter Island (1919)",
      "url": "https://readingroo.ms/6/9/8/0/69807/69807-h/69807-h.htm",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "Figures 110 and 112 preserve photographs of the Orongo rock and birdman boulder. Publication dates are not carving dates.",
      "author": "Katherine Routledge",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "miles",
      "title": "Hoa Hakananai’a: 3D and reflectance imaging",
      "url": "https://acrg.soton.ac.uk/blog/4091/",
      "kind": "research",
      "note": "Project page for surface-recording work. The older interactive viewer returned 403 during this review; its underlying data were not examined.",
      "author": "University of Southampton",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "cranes",
      "title": "Dances with cranes: animal masquerade",
      "url": "https://www.dainst.org/blogs/dances-with-cranes-animal-masquerade-in-pre-pottery/592",
      "kind": "excavation",
      "note": "Discusses birds and possible human-like legs on regional pillars. Interpretation as masquerade remains a proposal.",
      "author": "Jens Notroff / DAI",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "painted-slab",
      "title": "Painted slabs from Orongo · MAPSE 17-00-1312",
      "url": "https://www.museorapanui.gob.cl/multimedia/coleccion-de-lajas-pintadas-de-la-aldea-ceremonial-de-orongo-2",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Two facing tangata manu on a house slab; the 1974 move to the museum does not date the painting.",
      "author": "Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "met-apkallu",
      "title": "Eagle-headed relief · 32.143.7",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322614",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Exact object pictured here: Nimrud, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, ca. 883–859 BCE. Bucket and cone in a protective ritual context.",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "laventa",
      "title": "La Venta Monument 19 in El Tlacuache 1199",
      "url": "https://inah.gob.mx/images/suplementos/tlacuache/1199/web/20251002_Tlacuache_1199.pdf",
      "kind": "research",
      "note": "Page 18, figure 17: figure within a serpent and a possible copal bag. This does not establish the meaning of distant handled forms.",
      "author": "INAH",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "laventa-site",
      "title": "La Venta: archaeological site",
      "url": "https://lugares.inah.gob.mx/es/node/4311",
      "kind": "heritage",
      "note": "Provides site context and a principal 900–400 BCE horizon, used as a broad context range rather than an individual monument date.",
      "author": "INAH",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla",
      "title": "Cacaxtla–Xochitécatl",
      "url": "https://lugares.inah.gob.mx/en/node/4332",
      "kind": "heritage",
      "note": "Epiclassic context, 650–900 CE, with documented regional exchange.",
      "author": "INAH",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla-bird",
      "title": "The discovery of the Cacaxtla murals",
      "url": "https://inah.gob.mx/boletines/el-inah-organiza-conferencias-por-el-47-aniversario-del-hallazgo-de-las-pinturas-murales-de-cacaxtla",
      "kind": "excavation",
      "note": "Institutional account featuring the eagle-man mural; helps distinguish a costumed human from an anatomical bird-human hybrid.",
      "author": "INAH",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "newman",
      "title": "Megalithic origins: Göbekli Tepe and Peru",
      "url": "https://grahamhancock.com/newmanh2/",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "Guest article, 29 March 2014. Specific comparisons include hands toward the abdomen, sacred centres and distant statuary.",
      "author": "Hugh Newman; hosted by Graham Hancock",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "paqui",
      "title": "Karahan Tepe’s figure and the moai kavakava",
      "url": "https://grahamhancock.com/paquil1/",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "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.",
      "author": "Lee Paqui; hosted by Graham Hancock",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "seven",
      "title": "Secret of the Gods: stone handbags",
      "url": "https://grahamhancock.com/sevenr1/",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "Guest article, 11 March 2019. Proposes a shared geometric reading of handled forms, including Göbekli Tepe.",
      "author": "Ryan Seven; hosted by Graham Hancock",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "cassaro",
      "title": "The ancient Egyptians and Mayans: ten parallels",
      "url": "https://grahamhancock.com/cassaror4/",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "Author presents a set of proposed Egypt–Maya correspondences; the first pairs the Saqqara and Kukulkan step pyramids.",
      "author": "Richard Cassaro; hosted by Graham Hancock",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "hancock",
      "title": "Fingerprints of the Gods: author’s account",
      "url": "https://grahamhancock.com/fingerprints/",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "Primary source for Hancock’s broad proposed relationship between Old and New World monuments and traditions, not a source for each guest author’s claim.",
      "author": "Graham Hancock",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "fenton",
      "title": "Preserved Fenton comparison thread",
      "url": "data/fenton-thread.md",
      "kind": "claim",
      "note": "The project retains the supplied thread with known gaps, images and later source checks.",
      "author": "Bruce Fenton",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "atlas",
      "title": "The project’s illustrated comparison archive",
      "url": "atlas.html",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "Records comparisons assembled from this repository and supplied material. An external first proposer has not been traced for every pair.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "central",
      "title": "The pillar, the moai and the bird: source dossier",
      "url": "pillar-and-moai.html",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "Object-level inquiry, alternate views and chronology; the starting point for the central catalogue claims.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "inputs",
      "title": "Supplied-image identity register",
      "url": "data/image-register.json",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "Preserves captions, uncertainties and supplied images. A social caption is not an independent archaeological identification.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "script-study",
      "title": "Indus and rongorongo: the comparison-chart audit",
      "url": "rongo/",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "Scanned sign inventories, the circulating chart and metric limitations. Recognition was imperfect; rankings do not settle historical relationship.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "met-indus",
      "title": "Indus seal · 49.40.1",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324062",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Exact pictured seal and modern impression, dated ca. 2600–1900 BCE. This photograph is an example, not the inventory used for the old metric.",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "rongo-bm",
      "title": "Rongorongo tablet · Oc1903,-.150",
      "url": "https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/wooden-tablet-with-rongorongo-inscription/YQFZoZpx2-hP1Q",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Specific object has a 1700–1850 catalogue range. The older account of script origins is not a settled chronology of the whole tradition.",
      "author": "British Museum",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "rongo-dates",
      "title": "New radiocarbon dates on rongorongo",
      "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53063-7",
      "kind": "research",
      "note": "Four tablets dated; one has earlier wood. Wood age and inscription age must be distinguished. This does not date every sign or settle an Indus connection.",
      "author": "Ferrara et al., 2024",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "karahan",
      "title": "2023 Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe discoveries",
      "url": "https://basin.ktb.gov.tr/TR-350158/tarihin-sifir-noktasinda-ilk-boyali-heykel-bulundu.html",
      "kind": "excavation",
      "note": "30 September 2023: 2.3 m human statue with emphasized ribs and spine, described as seated; the article’s “standing” label needs care.",
      "author": "Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "kavakava",
      "title": "Moai kavakava · Oc,+.2595",
      "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Oc-2595",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "A documented example of the type, late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. Not an established identification of the figure in the catalogue’s historical photograph.",
      "author": "British Museum",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "kavakava-photo",
      "title": "Historic front and side views · Oc,G.T.1730",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_images_spliced_together;_a_front_and_side_view_of_the_same_wooden_moai_Kavakava_anthropomorphic_figure_carving_representing_akuaku_spirits,_supported_on_a_base._Oc,G.T.1730,_British_Museum.jpg",
      "kind": "image-record",
      "note": "The linked image identifier contains 1730; it is not a demonstrated collection year. Individual sculpture identity and age remain to be tied to a collection record.",
      "author": "British Museum photographic collection / Wikimedia Commons",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "civilisers",
      "title": "Teaching figures: primary-source audit",
      "url": "civilisers.html",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "29 inspected passages. The sea-arrival, teaching, departure and promised-return motifs do not all occur together in the compared accounts.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "berossus",
      "title": "Berossus through Eusebius, Chronicle I",
      "url": "https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_chronicon_02_text.htm",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "Oannes appears from the sea, teaches and returns to it at night. Berossus’s work survives through later witnesses and translation.",
      "author": "Berossus / Eusebius",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "sarmiento",
      "title": "History of the Incas (1572)",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20218/pg20218-images.html",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "Colonial witness for Viracocha; the recording date is not the origin date of the tradition.",
      "author": "Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "sahagun",
      "title": "Historia general / Florentine Codex",
      "url": "https://www.biblioteca-antologica.org/es/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SAHAG%C3%9AN-Historia-General-de-la-Nueva-Espa%C3%B1a-I.pdf",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "Sixteenth-century witness. See the project’s Q1–Q4 locators for teachings and departure, with translation qualifications.",
      "author": "Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "piedrahita",
      "title": "Historia general (1688)",
      "url": "https://idus.us.es/server/api/core/bitstreams/19b82710-7517-4058-8432-26acd67af64e/content",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "Colonial witness for Bochica. The audited arrival is inland, not from the sea.",
      "author": "Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "flood-tablet",
      "title": "Flood Tablet · K.3375",
      "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-3375",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Seventh-century BCE tablet from Nineveh, preserving Gilgamesh XI. The date is of the surviving tablet, not the birth of the flood story.",
      "author": "British Museum",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "manu",
      "title": "Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1: Manu and the fish",
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbr/sbe12/sbe1234.htm",
      "kind": "primary-text",
      "note": "The fish warns Manu and guides his boat. The bird-release sequence is not part of this inspected episode.",
      "author": "Julius Eggeling translation",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "flood-study",
      "title": "Flood stories: text-coding pilot",
      "url": "floods.html",
      "kind": "project",
      "note": "Source selection and coding limitations are retained. This study is not a worldwide proof of independent invention or one original event.",
      "author": "Deep Memory",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "dna",
      "title": "Ancient Rapanui genomes and contact with the Americas",
      "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07881-4",
      "kind": "research",
      "note": "Ancient-genome evidence supports pre-European admixture dated about 1250–1430 CE. It does not establish a route for a particular motif.",
      "author": "Moreno-Mayar et al., 2024",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "indus-trade",
      "title": "South and Southeast Asian art: Indus trade",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/files/learn/for-educators/publications-for-educators/sseasia.pdf",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "Indus seals in Mesopotamian contexts and the reverse support exchange. A useful control for what independent contact evidence looks like.",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "intake",
      "title": "Input coverage and identification audit",
      "url": "input-audit.html",
      "note": "Every supplied file is accounted for. Coverage is separate from verification; unresolved montages remain leads.",
      "kind": "supplied material",
      "author": "Supplied project archive",
      "checked": "2026-09-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "sydney",
      "title": "Gilgamesh at the University of Sydney",
      "url": "https://university-history.sydney.edu.au/university-archives-70-years-70-stories-week-11/",
      "note": "The university archive records the sculpture’s unveiling on 15 October 2000, a gift from the Assyrian community of Australia.",
      "kind": "institutional archive",
      "author": "University of Sydney Archives",
      "checked": "2026-09-20"
    },
    {
      "id": "pitts2014",
      "title": "Hoa Hakananai’a: a new study",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581514000201",
      "kind": "research paper",
      "author": "Pitts, Miles, Pagi & Earl",
      "checked": "2026-09-20",
      "note": "2014 digital study, pp. 308–309 and 316–318: arms reaching toward an older ring, with a proposed egg reinterpretation. Author-uploaded full text inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "met-329907",
      "title": "Striding Thoth · 2021.41.128",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329907",
      "kind": "museum",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-20",
      "note": "Museum identity, date and public-domain photograph checked in the bounded fieldwork collection."
    },
    {
      "id": "met-544092",
      "title": "Striding Thoth · 26.7.860",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544092",
      "kind": "museum",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-20",
      "note": "Museum identity, date and public-domain photograph checked in the bounded fieldwork collection."
    },
    {
      "id": "met-544093",
      "title": "Inlay depicting Thoth as the ibis with a Maat feather · 26.7.992",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544093",
      "kind": "museum",
      "author": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "checked": "2026-09-20",
      "note": "Museum identity, date and public-domain photograph checked in the bounded fieldwork collection."
    },
    {
      "id": "commons-cahokia",
      "title": "Birdman Tablet, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (photograph)",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birdman_Tablet.jpg",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "author": "Paul Sableman",
      "note": "A photograph of the object on display, replacing a modern illustration. The uploader's caption is not an excavation or accession record.",
      "checked": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "commons-lingjiatan-pig",
      "title": "Jade (stone) pig, Lingjiatan site museum display",
      "author": "Cangminzho",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%8E%89%EF%BC%88%E7%9F%B3%EF%BC%89%E7%8C%AA1264.jpg",
      "kind": "museum",
      "note": "A museum-display photograph whose caption independently gives about 88 kg and tomb 07M23, matching the supplied caption. Two caption-level sources still are not an excavation report.",
      "checked": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "commons-gate-sun",
      "title": "Gate of the Sun, central figure and attendant rows (detail)",
      "author": "Dennis G. Jarvis",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolivia_-_Gate_of_the_Sun_detail_-_Tiwanaku_or_Tiahuanaco_01.jpg",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "note": "An openly licensed detail of the carved lintel. The uploader's identification of the central figure as Viracocha is a traditional reading, not an inscription.",
      "checked": "2026-09-22"
    },
    {
      "id": "commons-hoa-front",
      "title": "Hoa Hakananai'a, front view (British Museum Oc1869,1005.1)",
      "author": "Andreas Praefcke",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoa_Hakananai%27a_BM_Oc1869_1005_1.jpg",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "note": "A public-domain frontal photograph showing the arms and hands against the torso more clearly than the previous view.",
      "checked": "2026-09-22"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "gobekli",
      "name": "Göbekli Tepe",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 37.223,
      "lon": 38.922,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "orongo",
      "name": "Orongo · Rapa Nui",
      "region": "Pacific",
      "lat": -27.186,
      "lon": -109.436,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "rapanui",
      "name": "Rapa Nui",
      "region": "Pacific",
      "lat": -27.12,
      "lon": -109.35,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Island-level attribution. The location does not identify where a tradition originated."
    },
    {
      "id": "nimrud",
      "name": "Nimrud",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 36.098,
      "lon": 43.328,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "laventa",
      "name": "La Venta",
      "region": "Mesoamerica",
      "lat": 18.103,
      "lon": -94.041,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "urfa",
      "name": "Şanlıurfa",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 37.15,
      "lon": 38.79,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "tiwanaku",
      "name": "Tiwanaku",
      "region": "South America",
      "lat": -16.555,
      "lon": -68.673,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla",
      "name": "Cacaxtla",
      "region": "Mesoamerica",
      "lat": 19.243,
      "lon": -98.339,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "cahokia",
      "name": "Cahokia",
      "region": "North America",
      "lat": 38.655,
      "lon": -90.062,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "delphi",
      "name": "Delphi",
      "region": "Europe",
      "lat": 38.482,
      "lon": 22.501,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "tepitokura",
      "name": "Te Pito Kura · Rapa Nui",
      "region": "Pacific",
      "lat": -27.067,
      "lon": -109.318,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "indus",
      "name": "Indus region",
      "region": "South Asia",
      "lat": 28.3,
      "lon": 69.1,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional anchor for a distributed corpus; not the findspot of every seal."
    },
    {
      "id": "jiroft",
      "name": "Jiroft region",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 28.7,
      "lon": 57.7,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional attribution of the photographed object; individual excavated provenance not established in this edition."
    },
    {
      "id": "lingjiatan",
      "name": "Lingjiatan, as captioned",
      "region": "East Asia",
      "lat": 31.5,
      "lon": 118.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Caption-level attribution; exact object registration and provenance still to check."
    },
    {
      "id": "arnhem",
      "name": "Arnhem Land, as attributed",
      "region": "Australia",
      "lat": -12.7,
      "lon": 133.5,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Broad attribution in the proposing source. No exact rock shelter or panel has been verified."
    },
    {
      "id": "mesopotamia",
      "name": "Mesopotamia",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 33.5,
      "lon": 44.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional tradition; not a known event location or place of composition."
    },
    {
      "id": "andes",
      "name": "Central Andes",
      "region": "South America",
      "lat": -13.5,
      "lon": -72.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional tradition in a colonial witness; a map anchor is not an event location."
    },
    {
      "id": "central-mexico",
      "name": "Central Mexico",
      "region": "Mesoamerica",
      "lat": 19.5,
      "lon": -99.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional tradition, not a known point of origin."
    },
    {
      "id": "muisca",
      "name": "Muisca region",
      "region": "South America",
      "lat": 4.8,
      "lon": -74.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Regional tradition documented by colonial writers."
    },
    {
      "id": "pohnpei",
      "name": "Pohnpei, as captioned",
      "region": "Pacific",
      "lat": 6.9,
      "lon": 158.2,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "The supplied collage names the island; the wooden figure and narrative attribution remain unverified."
    },
    {
      "id": "india",
      "name": "South Asia · Manu account",
      "region": "South Asia",
      "lat": 26.0,
      "lon": 80.0,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Broad textual tradition. No precise place of composition is assigned."
    },
    {
      "id": "karahan",
      "name": "Karahantepe",
      "region": "West Asia",
      "lat": 37.091,
      "lon": 39.302,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "saqqara",
      "name": "Saqqara",
      "region": "North Africa",
      "lat": 29.871,
      "lon": 31.216,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "chichen",
      "name": "Chichén Itzá",
      "region": "Mesoamerica",
      "lat": 20.683,
      "lon": -88.569,
      "precision": "site",
      "note": "Approximate site location; not a surveyed object position."
    },
    {
      "id": "americas",
      "name": "Americas · contact counterpart",
      "region": "South America",
      "lat": -12,
      "lon": -76,
      "precision": "region",
      "note": "Schematic regional anchor only. This point does not claim a departure port, route or precise ancestral homeland."
    }
  ],
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": "pillar43",
      "label": "Pillar 43",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "gobekli",
      "media": "p43",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -10000,
          "end": -8001,
          "label": "10th–9th millennia BCE",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "gt-dates",
          "note": "Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "One carved surface contains several animals and signs. The disc’s meaning and the upper arched forms remain disputed.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "pillar43",
      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia",
      "alternate_media": [
        "p43-alternate"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "hoa-back",
      "label": "Hoa Hakananai’a · back",
      "kind": "surface",
      "place": "orongo",
      "media": "hoa-back",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Later birdman carving episode. Do not assign the museum’s original statue date to the back motifs."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "moai",
        "miles"
      ],
      "note": "The birdmen were added to an existing ancestral statue. Multiple carving episodes matter more than a single “age of the moai”.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "hoa-hakananai-a",
      "culture": "rapanui",
      "alternate_media": [
        "hoa-alternate"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "boulder",
      "label": "Orongo birdman boulder",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "orongo",
      "media": "boulder",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 1750,
          "end": 1875,
          "label": "c. 1750–1875 CE",
          "kind": "catalogue estimate",
          "source": "boulder",
          "note": "Approximate museum date; not direct dating of the motif."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "boulder",
        "routledge"
      ],
      "note": "Museum number Oc1920,0506.1. A rounded form is close to the bent hand; the source reads it as an egg.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "boulder",
      "culture": "rapanui"
    },
    {
      "id": "apkallu",
      "label": "Nimrud protective figure",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "nimrud",
      "media": "met-apkallu",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -883,
          "end": -859,
          "label": "c. 883–859 BCE",
          "kind": "production",
          "source": "met-apkallu",
          "note": "Museum attribution to the palace of Ashurnasirpal II."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-apkallu"
      ],
      "note": "Met 32.143.7. This is a specific Assyrian relief, distinct from the Pergamon panel shown in the earlier atlas.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "apkallu",
      "culture": "assyria"
    },
    {
      "id": "laventa19",
      "label": "La Venta · Monument 19",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "laventa",
      "media": "laventa19",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -900,
          "end": -400,
          "label": "c. 900–400 BCE · site context",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "laventa-site",
          "note": "Broad principal La Venta horizon; an individual monument date remains to be tightened."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "laventa",
        "laventa-site"
      ],
      "note": "A seated figure sits within a serpent and carries a small handled form. The INAH discussion considers a copal bag.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "laventa19",
      "culture": "olmec"
    },
    {
      "id": "urfa-man",
      "label": "Urfa Man",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "urfa",
      "media": "urfa_man",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Early Neolithic attribution is retained as context, but an object-level dating source has not yet been checked for this entry."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "newman",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "The actual meeting place of the hands needs to be described from full views rather than assumed from a “navel” caption.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "urfa-man",
      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia"
    },
    {
      "id": "hoa-front",
      "label": "Hoa Hakananai’a · front",
      "kind": "surface",
      "place": "orongo",
      "media": "hoa-front-photo",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 1000,
          "end": 1200,
          "label": "c. 1000–1200 CE · museum estimate",
          "kind": "disputed catalogue estimate",
          "source": "moai",
          "note": "Museum’s traditional statue date; recent settlement research gives a later island chronology. This range is disputed context, not a direct measurement."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "moai",
        "dna",
        "commons-hoa-front"
      ],
      "note": "Same physical statue as the back-surface entry. Separate records describe different surfaces and carving episodes, not independent statues.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "hoa-hakananai-a",
      "culture": "rapanui",
      "alternate_media": [
        "hoa_front"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ponce",
      "label": "Ponce monolith",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "tiwanaku",
      "media": "ponce",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "An individual monument chronology has not been source-checked in this edition."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "The hands hold objects. That relationship differs from hands lying empty across a torso.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "ponce",
      "culture": "tiwanaku"
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla-bird",
      "label": "Cacaxtla bird-costumed figure",
      "kind": "surface",
      "place": "cacaxtla",
      "media": "cacaxtla",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 650,
          "end": 900,
          "label": "650–900 CE · site context",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "cacaxtla",
          "note": "Epiclassic context, not a direct pigment date."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cacaxtla",
        "cacaxtla-bird"
      ],
      "note": "Painted human figure wearing bird elements. Costuming and anatomical hybridity should be separate features.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "cacaxtla-bird",
      "culture": "cacaxtla"
    },
    {
      "id": "cahokia-bird",
      "label": "Cahokia birdman tablet",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "cahokia",
      "media": "cahokia-photo",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Mississippian context; object-level collection and dating records remain to be checked."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "commons-cahokia"
      ],
      "note": "A photograph of the object now replaces the modern illustration; the drawing is kept as a second view. Mississippian context; accession and dating records remain to be checked.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "cahokia-bird",
      "culture": "mississippian",
      "alternate_media": [
        "cahokia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "omphalos",
      "label": "Delphi omphalos",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "delphi",
      "media": "omphalos",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The photographed museum object needs an exact accession record and date; a tradition’s age is not the age of this example."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "A sacred-centre comparison involving both an object and a name. The picture alone cannot establish an ancient shared concept.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "omphalos",
      "culture": "delphi"
    },
    {
      "id": "te-pito",
      "label": "Te Pito Kura stone",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "tepitokura",
      "media": "tepitokura2",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "No date established for this stone’s shaping, placement or association with the modern label."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "moai"
      ],
      "note": "The island name and this particular rounded stone must not be treated as the same historical evidence.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "te-pito",
      "culture": "rapanui"
    },
    {
      "id": "indus-signs",
      "label": "Indus signs",
      "kind": "corpus",
      "place": "indus",
      "media": "met-indus",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -2600,
          "end": -1900,
          "label": "c. 2600–1900 BCE",
          "kind": "corpus context",
          "source": "met-indus",
          "note": "Museum date for the pictured example, compatible with the Mature Harappan corpus; not a date for each sign."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-indus",
        "script-study"
      ],
      "note": "A seal and modern impression stand for a much larger sign corpus. Metric tests used catalogue drawings, not this photograph.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "indus-signs",
      "culture": "indus"
    },
    {
      "id": "rongorongo",
      "label": "Rongorongo signs",
      "kind": "corpus",
      "place": "rapanui",
      "media": "rongo-sheet",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "There is no single date for this sign corpus. Dated wood, carving episodes and nineteenth-century collecting are different events."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "rongo-dates",
        "rongo-bm",
        "script-study"
      ],
      "note": "A plate of catalogue drawings is shown. The 2024 wood-dating study neither dates every inscription nor establishes a script relationship.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "rongorongo",
      "culture": "rapanui"
    },
    {
      "id": "jiroft-object",
      "label": "Jiroft handled object",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "jiroft",
      "media": "jiroft",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The circulating image’s Bronze Age attribution needs an object-level record and excavated provenance check."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "A real photographed object can still have unresolved archaeological provenance. Its figures and snakes are not automatically a feathered serpent.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "jiroft-object",
      "culture": "jiroft"
    },
    {
      "id": "boar-unidentified",
      "label": "Museum boar · identity open",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": null,
      "media": "boar",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Museum, accession and findspot unresolved."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "No geographical pin is assigned from resemblance alone.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "boar-unidentified",
      "culture": "unassigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "lingjiatan-pig",
      "label": "Lingjiatan jade pig",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "lingjiatan",
      "media": "lingjiatan-pig-photo",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Supplied caption and tomb number need confirmation against a collection or excavation record."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "commons-lingjiatan-pig"
      ],
      "note": "A museum-display photograph now carries the record. Its caption independently repeats the 88 kg weight and tomb 07M23; an excavation report is still the check that would settle them.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "lingjiatan-pig",
      "culture": "lingjiatan",
      "alternate_media": [
        "pig"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "arnhem-painting",
      "label": "Arnhem Land painting · panel unknown",
      "kind": "surface",
      "place": "arnhem",
      "media": "arnhem-bird",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The exact panel, artist/tradition attribution and age have not been verified."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "A regional rock-art tradition’s long duration cannot date an unlocated individual painting.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "arnhem-painting",
      "culture": "arnhem"
    },
    {
      "id": "serpent-montage",
      "label": "Serpent montage · mixed sources",
      "kind": "image-group",
      "place": null,
      "media": "serpent-montage",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Several different surfaces and source photographs; no common date can be assigned."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "Some component images remain unidentified; the montage is one claim presentation, not one ancient object.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "serpent-montage",
      "culture": "unassigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "oannes",
      "label": "Oannes",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "mesopotamia",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -300,
          "end": -201,
          "label": "3rd century BCE · composition",
          "kind": "composition",
          "source": "berossus",
          "note": "Approximate period of Berossus’s writing; surviving evidence is mediated by later authors."
        },
        {
          "start": 300,
          "end": 399,
          "label": "4th century CE · compilation",
          "kind": "witness",
          "source": "berossus",
          "note": "Eusebius’s compilation is later than the attributed original work."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "berossus",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "A literary figure whose surviving account passes through several witnesses. No life date is plotted.",
      "text": "A being from the sea teaches people, then returns to the water at night.",
      "physical_id": "oannes",
      "culture": "mesopotamian-accounts"
    },
    {
      "id": "viracocha",
      "label": "Viracocha",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "andes",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 1572,
          "end": 1572,
          "label": "1572 CE · written witness",
          "kind": "recording",
          "source": "sarmiento",
          "note": "Colonial recording, not the origin date of the tradition."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "sarmiento",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "The inspected account begins inland; walking away across the sea is a different motif from arriving by sea.",
      "text": "A creator and teacher travels through the Andes and departs across the sea.",
      "physical_id": "viracocha",
      "culture": "andean-accounts"
    },
    {
      "id": "quetzalcoatl",
      "label": "Quetzalcoatl",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "central-mexico",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 1577,
          "end": 1577,
          "label": "1577 CE · codex witness",
          "kind": "witness",
          "source": "sahagun",
          "note": "Completion context of the Florentine Codex, not the first existence of the tradition."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "sahagun",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "The source audit keeps the teaching and departure passages separate. It does not import a return promise from a modern compressed retelling.",
      "text": "Crafts and teachings are associated with Tollan; a later departure uses a serpent raft.",
      "physical_id": "quetzalcoatl",
      "culture": "nahua-accounts"
    },
    {
      "id": "bochica",
      "label": "Bochica",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "muisca",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": 1688,
          "end": 1688,
          "label": "1688 CE · publication",
          "kind": "witness",
          "source": "piedrahita",
          "note": "Colonial published witness, not an event or origin date."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "piedrahita",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "The audited route arrives inland. Modern statues are not ancient portraits, so this entry leads with the text.",
      "text": "A teaching figure arrives by an inland route in the inspected colonial account.",
      "physical_id": "bochica",
      "culture": "muisca"
    },
    {
      "id": "navigator",
      "label": "Pohnpei navigator · story untraced",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "pohnpei",
      "media": "navigator",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Neither the figure’s age nor the story’s earliest witness is verified."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "The collage joins a wooden figure and architecture without demonstrating their relationship.",
      "text": "A social-media caption links a navigator figure with monumental construction.",
      "physical_id": "navigator",
      "culture": "pohnpei"
    },
    {
      "id": "gilgamesh-flood",
      "label": "Gilgamesh XI · Flood Tablet",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "mesopotamia",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": -700,
          "end": -601,
          "label": "7th century BCE · tablet",
          "kind": "witness",
          "source": "flood-tablet",
          "note": "Age of this material witness, not the beginning of the story."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "flood-tablet",
        "flood-study"
      ],
      "note": "The preserved tablet carries a sequence of bird releases as well as a warning and a boat.",
      "text": "A warning, a vessel, survival through a flood, then birds sent out to seek land.",
      "physical_id": "gilgamesh-flood",
      "culture": "mesopotamian-accounts"
    },
    {
      "id": "manu-flood",
      "label": "Manu and the fish",
      "kind": "account",
      "place": "india",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "An early composition range and manuscript witness history have not been audited for this entry."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "manu"
      ],
      "note": "The inspected passage is Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1. A modern translation is a route to that text, not a date for the event.",
      "text": "A fish warns Manu, has him prepare a boat, and guides it through the flood.",
      "physical_id": "manu-flood",
      "culture": "vedic"
    },
    {
      "id": "karahan-ribs",
      "label": "Karahantepe ribbed figure",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "karahan",
      "media": "karahan_man",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Neolithic attribution is established in the discovery context; this review has not tied the individual carving to a dated stratum."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "karahan",
        "paqui"
      ],
      "note": "The official discovery account describes a seated figure. The montage contains three views of one statue.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "karahan-ribs",
      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia"
    },
    {
      "id": "kavakava",
      "label": "Moai kavakava · historic photograph",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "rapanui",
      "media": "kavakava-photo",
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The exact photographed sculpture’s collection identity and date remain unresolved. Oc,G.T.1730 is an image identifier, not a secure collection year."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "kavakava-photo",
        "kavakava",
        "paqui"
      ],
      "note": "A separate museum record establishes the wooden figure type. Its date must not be silently assigned to this photograph.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "kavakava",
      "culture": "rapanui"
    },
    {
      "id": "saqqara-pyramid",
      "label": "Djoser’s Step Pyramid",
      "kind": "monument",
      "place": "saqqara",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Object chronology and restoration history need a primary heritage-source check in this entry."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "note": "A discovery lead awaiting independently sourced full views and construction history.",
      "text": "A stepped masonry monument at Saqqara, Egypt.",
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      "culture": "egypt"
    },
    {
      "id": "kukulkan",
      "label": "Temple of Kukulkan",
      "kind": "monument",
      "place": "chichen",
      "media": null,
      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "Building phases and restorations need source checking before numerical dates are entered."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "note": "The proposed comparison needs specific architectural features beyond a broad stepped outline.",
      "text": "A stepped temple platform at Chichén Itzá, Mexico.",
      "physical_id": "kukulkan",
      "culture": "maya"
    },
    {
      "id": "orongo-slab",
      "label": "Orongo painted slab",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "orongo",
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      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The 1974 museum transfer and 2020 digital recording do not date the painting."
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      ],
      "sources": [
        "painted-slab"
      ],
      "note": "MAPSE 17-00-1312. The displayed image is a textured 3D record of a surface.",
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      "culture": "rapanui"
    },
    {
      "id": "mata-ngarau",
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      "place": "orongo",
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      "dates": [
        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Date unresolved",
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          "source": null,
          "note": "A photograph published in 1919 gives a latest possible existence date, not an origin date."
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      ],
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "note": "Three relief birdmen belong to an Orongo rock surface; another printed view is not a new independent object.",
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      "physical_id": "mata-ngarau",
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      "id": "pillar2",
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          "start": -10000,
          "end": -8001,
          "label": "10th–9th millennia BCE",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "gt-dates",
          "note": "Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "A local comparator for birds and animal combinations; it does not duplicate Pillar 43’s composition.",
      "text": "",
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      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia"
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      "id": "rapanui-contact",
      "label": "Rapanui population evidence",
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      "dates": [
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          "start": 1250,
          "end": 1430,
          "label": "c. 1250–1430 CE · inferred contact",
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          "source": "dna",
          "note": "Published admixture-time estimate, not an observed journey or motif date."
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      "sources": [
        "dna"
      ],
      "note": "The population-level evidence does not assign specific carvings to contact.",
      "text": "Ancient genomes preserve evidence of contact with people from the Americas.",
      "physical_id": "rapanui-contact",
      "culture": "rapanui"
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    {
      "id": "american-contact",
      "label": "American ancestry counterpart",
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        {
          "start": 1250,
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          "label": "c. 1250–1430 CE · same event",
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          "source": "dna",
          "note": "The same estimated contact episode as the linked Rapanui record, not a second independent event."
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      "sources": [
        "dna"
      ],
      "note": "Map position is a broad visual anchor, not a port of origin.",
      "text": "An independent genetic line of evidence changes the question of complete isolation.",
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      "id": "indus-exchange-record",
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      "place": "mesopotamia",
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          "label": "Bronze Age exchange · individual finds pending",
          "kind": "undated register summary",
          "source": "indus-trade",
          "note": "The source discusses exchanged seals. Individual find contexts and dated assemblages have not yet been entered, so no numerical range is assigned to this summary."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "indus-trade"
      ],
      "note": "The Met’s survey describes Indus seals found in Mesopotamian cities and Mesopotamian seals at Indus sites. This record summarises that evidence; it is not an individual object or a count of exchanged seals.",
      "text": "Seals found outside their producing regions provide material evidence of exchange.",
      "physical_id": "indus-exchange-record",
      "culture": "mesopotamian-exchange"
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      "id": "gate-sun",
      "label": "Gate of the Sun · frieze",
      "kind": "surface",
      "place": "tiwanaku",
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        {
          "start": null,
          "end": null,
          "label": "Carving date unresolved here",
          "kind": "unresolved",
          "source": null,
          "note": "The input register gives a broad Tiwanaku-period attribution. No object-specific dating source has been checked for this entry."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "intake",
        "commons-gate-sun"
      ],
      "note": "An openly licensed detail now carries the record, with the supplied post image kept as a second view. A central staff-bearer is surrounded by rows of attendants, including bird-headed figures. The name “Viracocha” is an interpretation, not an inscriptional identification.",
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      "physical_id": "gate-of-the-sun",
      "culture": "tiwanaku",
      "alternate_media": [
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      ]
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      "id": "pillar33",
      "label": "Pillar 33",
      "kind": "object",
      "place": "gobekli",
      "media": "fieldwork-pillar33",
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        {
          "start": -10000,
          "end": -8001,
          "label": "10th–9th millennia BCE",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "gt-dates",
          "note": "Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif."
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      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "The robust bent legs matter to the local bird–human interpretation.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "pillar33",
      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia"
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      "id": "pillar38",
      "label": "Pillar 38",
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      "place": "gobekli",
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          "start": -10000,
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          "label": "10th–9th millennia BCE",
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          "source": "gt-dates",
          "note": "Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif."
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      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
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      ],
      "note": "Multiple birds belong to one pillar, not several independent artefacts.",
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      "id": "pillar56",
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      "place": "gobekli",
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        {
          "start": -10000,
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          "label": "10th–9th millennia BCE",
          "kind": "site context",
          "source": "gt-dates",
          "note": "Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif."
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      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "A local anatomical contrast; the source treats these legs as more naturalistic.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "pillar56",
      "culture": "neolithic-anatolia"
    },
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      "id": "met-329907",
      "label": "Striding Thoth",
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      "place": null,
      "media": "met-329907",
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        {
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          "end": -332,
          "label": "664–332 BCE",
          "kind": "production",
          "source": "met-329907",
          "note": "Museum attribution; provenance and production place are not inferred from the modern collection."
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      "sources": [
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      ],
      "note": "A beaked human form with a substantially different pose.",
      "text": "",
      "physical_id": "met-329907",
      "culture": "late-egypt"
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      "id": "met-544092",
      "label": "Striding Thoth",
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      "place": null,
      "media": "met-544092",
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        {
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          "end": -30,
          "label": "332–30 BCE",
          "kind": "production",
          "source": "met-544092",
          "note": "Museum attribution; provenance and production place are not inferred from the modern collection."
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      ],
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "note": "A closer anatomical parallel than a shared arrangement.",
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      "physical_id": "met-544092",
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      "id": "met-544093",
      "label": "Thoth as an ibis",
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          "label": "360–343 BCE",
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          "source": "met-544093",
          "note": "Museum attribution; provenance and production place are not inferred from the modern collection."
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      "sources": [
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      "note": "A bird beside an emblem: similar ingredients, different anatomical relation.",
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      "credit": "DAI / K. Schmidt",
      "rights": "Copyright; reproduced for critical comparison",
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      "alt": "Eagle-headed protective figure holding a bucket; Met 32.143.7",
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      "credit": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
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      "caption": "Front and side views of one wooden moai kavakava, historic museum photograph",
      "alt": "Front and side views of one wooden moai kavakava, historic museum photograph",
      "credit": "British Museum photographic collection; reproduction in Lee Paqui’s article",
      "rights": "Public domain historical photograph; original record linked",
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      "alt": "La Venta Monument 19: seated figure inside a serpent",
      "credit": "Gary Todd",
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      "caption": "The Balıklıgöl statue, commonly called Urfa Man",
      "alt": "The Balıklıgöl statue, commonly called Urfa Man",
      "credit": "Dosseman",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urfa_museum_Urfa_man_sept_2019_4711.jpg",
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      "alt": "Front and side of Hoa Hakananai’a",
      "credit": "James Miles",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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      "caption": "Ponce monolith at Tiwanaku",
      "alt": "Ponce monolith at Tiwanaku",
      "credit": "P. Hughes",
      "rights": "CC BY 4.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiwanaku_-_Ponce_monolith.jpg",
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      "caption": "Cacaxtla’s bird-costumed human in a painted mural",
      "alt": "Cacaxtla’s bird-costumed human in a painted mural",
      "credit": "Tim Zaman",
      "rights": "CC BY 3.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VestidosDeSacerdotes(Hombre-Ave).jpg",
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      "caption": "Modern illustration of the Cahokia birdman tablet",
      "alt": "Modern illustration of the Cahokia birdman tablet",
      "credit": "Herb Roe, www.chromesun.com",
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      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cahokia_Birdman_tablet_HRoe_2012.jpg",
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      "caption": "An omphalos in the Delphi museum",
      "alt": "An omphalos in the Delphi museum",
      "credit": "Zde",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Omphalos,_AM_of_Delphi,_201424.jpg",
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      "caption": "Rounded stone called the navel of the world at Te Pito Kura",
      "alt": "Rounded stone called the navel of the world at Te Pito Kura",
      "credit": "Bjørn Christian Tørrissen",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navel-of-the-World-2013.jpg",
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      "caption": "Handled chlorite object attributed to Jiroft, with a figure and serpents",
      "alt": "Handled chlorite object attributed to Jiroft, with a figure and serpents",
      "credit": "Nationalmuseumofiran",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chlorite_object_Jiroft,_Kerman_ca._2500_BCE,_Bronze_Age_I,_National_Museum_of_Iran.jpg",
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      "caption": "Three views of the same ribbed human statue at Karahantepe",
      "alt": "Three views of the same ribbed human statue at Karahantepe",
      "credit": "Marco Restano",
      "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karahan_Tepe_man.jpg",
      "kind": "photographic montage",
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      "caption": "Three birdman figures at Mata Ngarau; historic photograph",
      "alt": "Three birdman figures at Mata Ngarau; historic photograph",
      "credit": "Photographer not identified; Mana Expedition / British Museum archive",
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      "credit": "Supplied archive; see original image register.",
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      "credit": "Supplied archive; see original image register.",
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      "alt": "Montage of several animal sculptures and reliefs; individual identities need separation.",
      "credit": "Supplied archive; see original image register.",
      "rights": "Underlying rights unresolved; reproduced for commentary.",
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      "caption": "Animal sculpture in an architectural setting; exact photograph untraced.",
      "alt": "Animal sculpture in an architectural setting; exact photograph untraced.",
      "credit": "Supplied archive; see original image register.",
      "rights": "Underlying rights unresolved; reproduced for commentary.",
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      "credit": "DAI / Göbekli Tepe Project",
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      "description": "The Cahokia tablet photographed on display, with the modern illustration kept as a second view.",
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    {
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      "description": "The Te Pito Kura stone and associated name.",
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      "sources": [
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        "script-study"
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      "sources": [
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        "script-study"
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      "cultures": [
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    },
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      "description": "A handled chlorite object with human and animal imagery.",
      "membership_reason": "One photographed example; archaeological provenance has not been established here.",
      "sources": [
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      "description": "One supplied photograph.",
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      "sources": [
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      "membership_reason": "Awaiting object-level confirmation of the caption.",
      "sources": [
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      "description": "A painting featured in Fenton’s argument.",
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      ],
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      "members": [
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      "description": "Several regions combined in the supplied montage.",
      "membership_reason": "A provisional image group. It will be split into object records as component identities are established.",
      "sources": [
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      "cultures": [
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      "id": "teachers-mesopotamia",
      "label": "Mesopotamian teaching figures",
      "members": [
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      "description": "The Oannes account surviving through later witnesses.",
      "membership_reason": "One source family; retellings are not independent traditions.",
      "sources": [
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      "cultures": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "teachers-andes",
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      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "Viracocha in the inspected colonial witness.",
      "membership_reason": "One selected witness, not all Andean versions.",
      "sources": [
        "sarmiento"
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      "cultures": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "teachers-mexico",
      "label": "Mesoamerican teaching figures",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "Quetzalcoatl in the source-audit passages.",
      "membership_reason": "One selected source family with distinct teaching and departure episodes.",
      "sources": [
        "sahagun"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "nahua-accounts"
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    },
    {
      "id": "teachers-muisca",
      "label": "Muisca teaching figures",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "Bochica in the inspected colonial source.",
      "membership_reason": "A witness with inland arrival; sea-arrival paraphrases need correction.",
      "sources": [
        "piedrahita"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "muisca"
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    },
    {
      "id": "teachers-pohnpei",
      "label": "Pohnpei navigator lead",
      "members": [
        "navigator"
      ],
      "description": "A story attached to a social image.",
      "membership_reason": "Neither the narrative witness nor the object relation is traced.",
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
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      "cultures": [
        "pohnpei"
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    },
    {
      "id": "flood-mesopotamia",
      "label": "Mesopotamian flood accounts",
      "members": [
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      "description": "Gilgamesh XI as preserved on the Flood Tablet.",
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      "sources": [
        "flood-tablet"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "mesopotamian-accounts"
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    },
    {
      "id": "flood-india",
      "label": "South Asian flood accounts",
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      ],
      "description": "Manu and the fish in Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.",
      "membership_reason": "One inspected episode; later versions should be separate records.",
      "sources": [
        "manu"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ribs-anatolia",
      "label": "Anatolian ribbed figures",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "The large Karahantepe statue.",
      "membership_reason": "One statue shown in three photographs; no frequency claim.",
      "sources": [
        "karahan"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia"
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    },
    {
      "id": "ribs-rapanui",
      "label": "Rapanui moai kavakava",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "Small wooden figures with pronounced ribs.",
      "membership_reason": "One historical example pictured; a separate museum record supplies type context, not its exact identity.",
      "sources": [
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        "kavakava-photo"
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      "cultures": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "pyramids-egypt",
      "label": "Egyptian stepped architecture",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "Djoser’s monument in the proposing comparison.",
      "membership_reason": "Initial architectural lead; independently sourced views and phases still needed.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "cultures": [
        "egypt"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pyramids-maya",
      "label": "Maya stepped architecture",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "The Kukulkan temple in the proposing comparison.",
      "membership_reason": "One specific building, not all Mesoamerican monumental architecture.",
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "maya"
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    },
    {
      "id": "contact-pacific",
      "label": "Rapanui population history",
      "members": [
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      "description": "Ancient-genome study.",
      "membership_reason": "An independent kind of evidence; not a visual resemblance.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "cultures": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "contact-americas",
      "label": "American ancestry evidence",
      "members": [
        "american-contact"
      ],
      "description": "The other side of the same inferred contact episode.",
      "membership_reason": "A paired description of the same evidence, not an independent replication.",
      "sources": [
        "dna"
      ],
      "cultures": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "p43-arches",
      "label": "Pillar 43 · upper arched forms",
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      ],
      "description": "The upper register of one Neolithic pillar.",
      "membership_reason": "A specific feature subset; the same pillar also appears in the bird comparisons.",
      "sources": [
        "p43"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mesopotamian-exchange",
      "label": "Mesopotamian exchange evidence",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "A source-based summary of seals found across the two regions.",
      "membership_reason": "This is a contextual evidence record. It does not use a later Assyrian carving as a proxy for Bronze Age trade.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "cultures": [
        "mesopotamian-exchange"
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    },
    {
      "id": "gate-attendants",
      "label": "Tiwanaku’s bird-headed attendants",
      "members": [
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      ],
      "description": "The Gate of the Sun’s frieze.",
      "membership_reason": "One identified monument selected from the supplied comparison; repeated attendants are not independent monuments.",
      "sources": [
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        "intake"
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      "cultures": [
        "tiwanaku"
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  ],
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      "id": "birdmen-worlds",
      "title": "Birdmen across two worlds",
      "dek": "Birds, bent limbs and rounded forms, across a vast interval in place and time.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "pillar43",
        "pillar2",
        "pillar33",
        "pillar38",
        "pillar56",
        "hoa-back",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab"
      ],
      "status": "examined",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The recurring features invite a comparison between repertoires, rather than a single fortunate pairing. A historical link would have to bridge a very large chronology gap.",
      "features": [
        "Both groups include bird imagery in complex carved or painted scenes.",
        "The narrow bird-and-rounded-form correspondence is strongest for Pillar 43 and the Orongo boulder; it is not equally present in every group member."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The Rapanui group includes human–bird hybrids; the Pillar 43 figure is generally described as a vulture.",
        "The moai’s ring is below the birdmen; the boulder’s rounded object is at a bent hand; Pillar 43’s disc lies above a wing.",
        "The group samples were selected for this inquiry. They do not establish how common or rare the combination is."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "central",
        "note": "Starting comparison from the supplied project material; Lee Paqui’s 2024 article independently states the narrower bird-and-rounded-object parallel."
      },
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "hoa",
        "boulder",
        "cranes",
        "painted-slab",
        "paqui"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Build dated local sequences on both sides.",
        "Use expert-reviewed feature locations and relations before any similarity ranking.",
        "Add a documented comparison corpus selected independently of the proposed match."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "pillar-and-moai.html",
          "label": "Open the full photographic investigation"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [
        "local-rapanui",
        "local-anatolia",
        "pacific-contact"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "anatolian-birds",
        "rapanui-birdmen"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-and-disc",
      "title": "A bird, a hand, a rounded form",
      "dek": "The precise composition that makes the central puzzle worth a closer look.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "pillar43",
        "boulder"
      ],
      "status": "examined",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "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.",
      "features": [
        "A projecting bird head, bent lower limb and nearby rounded form can be inspected in both images."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Wing and human-like arm are different anatomical relations.",
        "The meaning of the Pillar 43 disc remains open; calling both forms eggs would decide the issue prematurely."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "paqui",
        "note": "The section “Birds, eggs, and birdmen with eggs” explicitly compares these two carvings."
      },
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "boulder",
        "routledge"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Code posture, attachment, contact and surrounding scene separately.",
        "Check full surfaces and independent images before judging the silhouette."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "pillar-and-moai.html",
          "label": "Open the full photographic investigation"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [
        "local-rapanui",
        "local-anatolia"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "p43-composition",
        "boulder-composition"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia",
        "rapanui"
      ],
      "parent": "birdmen-worlds"
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms",
      "title": "The so-called handbags",
      "dek": "Arched forms and carried containers: how much of the resemblance survives context?",
      "motifs": [
        "handled"
      ],
      "members": [
        "pillar43",
        "apkallu",
        "laventa19"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The same compact outline is pointed out across ancient Anatolia, Assyria and Mesoamerica. The time gaps and distant contexts motivate the proposed anomaly.",
      "features": [
        "An arch or handle rises over a roughly enclosed lower form in the selected images."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Pillar 43’s forms are arranged overhead and are not visibly carried.",
        "The Nimrud bucket belongs to a cone-and-bucket ritual ensemble.",
        "La Venta’s small carried object has its own local interpretation; shared shape does not establish shared function."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "seven",
        "note": "Seven explicitly develops the Göbekli Tepe / West Asian handled-form proposal. The project archive preserves the extension to La Venta; the earliest proposer of that three-way version is untraced."
      },
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "met-apkallu",
        "laventa",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Collect handled forms and plausible non-container alternatives without selecting only good matches.",
        "Trace each interpretation to an object-specific source."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "atlas.html#handbags",
          "label": "Read the illustrated handled-form essay"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [
        "indus-trade"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "p43-arches",
        "nimrud",
        "olmec"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia",
        "assyria",
        "olmec"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "hands-across-torsos",
      "title": "Hands drawn toward the body",
      "dek": "Anatolian, Pacific and Andean figures invite a comparison of gesture.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies"
      ],
      "members": [
        "urfa-man",
        "hoa-front",
        "ponce"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A similar resting arrangement is proposed as a persistent convention across disconnected sculptural traditions.",
      "features": [
        "Arms descend beside a frontal body; the hands converge or act near the torso."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The Ponce figure holds objects; the other poses need separate descriptions.",
        "The hands are not necessarily directed at the same anatomical point.",
        "Similar human bodies constrain the number of comfortable or legible sculptural poses."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "newman",
        "note": "Newman explicitly compares Urfa Man with distant torso gestures including moai. The Ponce example is the project’s additional proposed comparison, not a claim that Newman identified this exact statue."
      },
      "sources": [
        "newman",
        "hoa",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Trace object dates and acquisition identities.",
        "Code exact hand positions, held objects and local sculptural predecessors."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "atlas.html#hands",
          "label": "Hand-position archive"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "torso-anatolia",
        "torso-rapanui",
        "torso-andes"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia",
        "rapanui",
        "tiwanaku"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ribs-across-oceans",
      "title": "Bodies with visible ribs",
      "dek": "Karahantepe’s stone figure and the moai kavakava repertoire.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies"
      ],
      "members": [
        "karahan-ribs",
        "kavakava"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The highlighted ribs, prominent facial features and bodily posture make a more specific comparison than generic standing statues.",
      "features": [
        "Both selected examples emphasize ribs and the human body."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The stone statue is monumental; the wooden figures are small and portable.",
        "The official discovery account calls the Karahantepe figure seated.",
        "The circulating historical photograph’s “1730” identifier should not become a collection date."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "paqui",
        "note": "Paqui explicitly proposes this comparison. Her physiological and shared-ancestry explanations require evidence beyond sculpted anatomy."
      },
      "sources": [
        "karahan",
        "kavakava",
        "kavakava-photo"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Identify the exact photographed wooden figure.",
        "Compare local variants and funerary interpretations before inferring shared meaning."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "ribs-anatolia",
        "ribs-rapanui"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "assyria-rapanui-birdmen",
      "title": "Human bodies, bird heads",
      "dek": "Two repertoires transform the human figure in visibly different ways.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "apkallu",
        "hoa-back",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The combination of a human-like body and bird head appears on opposite sides of the world. Whether finer structure also matches is the useful question.",
      "features": [
        "Bird heads combine with human-like bodies in each group."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The Assyrian figure is winged, dressed and upright, with a ritual bucket.",
        "Rapanui examples often bend their limbs and vary in their associated forms."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "atlas",
        "note": "The project’s illustrated archive assembles this comparison; an original external proposer of the exact pictured pairing has not been traced."
      },
      "sources": [
        "met-apkallu",
        "hoa",
        "boulder",
        "painted-slab"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Compare anatomical structure and ritual relationships across several identified examples per group."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [
        "local-rapanui"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "nimrud",
        "rapanui-birdmen"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "assyria",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla-rapanui",
      "title": "Costume or transformation?",
      "dek": "A bird-costumed mural figure beside the Rapanui birdman tradition.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "cacaxtla-bird",
        "hoa-back",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The resemblance attracts attention across Mesoamerica and the Pacific, but a bird costume and a hybrid being may encode different ideas.",
      "features": [
        "Human and avian features are combined in both selected repertoires."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Cacaxtla retains a human face within a costume.",
        "Medium, posture, accessories and surrounding scenes differ."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "atlas",
        "note": "Retained from the project’s broad birdman comparison; exact external proposal history is not yet traced."
      },
      "sources": [
        "cacaxtla",
        "cacaxtla-bird",
        "boulder"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Record full mural context and each Rapanui variant.",
        "Keep regional Mesoamerican transmission as a separate control."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [
        "pacific-contact"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "cacaxtla",
        "rapanui-birdmen"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "cacaxtla",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cahokia-rapanui",
      "title": "A birdman on a small tablet",
      "dek": "A North American lead, with the image’s status kept in view.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "cahokia-bird",
        "boulder"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The circulated illustration suggests a distant bird-human parallel. Fine comparison must wait for an independently identified primary image.",
      "features": [
        "Both presentations suggest avian and human elements."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Both are now shown in photographs; the modern illustration of the tablet is kept as a second view, and the boulder's only image remains a 1919 photograph.",
        "A small tablet and a relief boulder have different compositional constraints."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "atlas",
        "note": "The earlier atlas assembled this lead. An external first proposer and museum object record still need tracing."
      },
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "boulder"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Acquire a museum accession record and dated context for the tablet.",
        "Compare the photograph with the illustration to see what the drawing restores or emphasises."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "cahokia",
        "boulder-composition"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "mississippian",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-navels",
      "title": "Stones at the centre of the world",
      "dek": "Delphi and Rapa Nui: a visual comparison intertwined with language.",
      "motifs": [
        "centres"
      ],
      "members": [
        "omphalos",
        "te-pito"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A rounded sacred stone and the metaphor of a world’s navel could suggest a shared concept, if both associations can be established historically.",
      "features": [
        "Modern presentations associate both places with a navel or sacred centre."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The Delphi object is shaped and decorated; the Rapanui stone’s modification and placement history need checking.",
        "An island name does not date the modern identification of a particular stone."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "atlas",
        "note": "This pairing is preserved in the project archive. Newman’s article provides a broader proposed “world navels” comparison, not the object-level proof."
      },
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "newman",
        "moai"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Find early Rapanui-language and collection witnesses.",
        "Separate object history, place-name etymology and modern visitor interpretation."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "navel-delphi",
        "navel-rapanui"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "delphi",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "indus-rongorongo",
      "title": "Two unread scripts",
      "dek": "Does the resemblance survive beyond the famous selected signs?",
      "motifs": [
        "scripts"
      ],
      "members": [
        "indus-signs",
        "rongorongo"
      ],
      "status": "examined",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "Selected sign charts propose affinities across a large gap in time and geography. A script relationship should predict more than a few convincing outlines.",
      "features": [
        "Some selected signs appear similar when drawn and aligned."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The circulating chart and published inventories do not always depict the same forms.",
        "The old metric’s retrieval validation was imperfect; its rankings cannot settle the human-visible comparison.",
        "A corpus’s writing system, language and chronology are separate questions."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "script-study",
        "note": "The project audits the circulating comparison chart and historical attribution to de Hevesy; the original proposing publication still deserves a complete source review."
      },
      "sources": [
        "script-study",
        "met-indus",
        "rongo-dates"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Compare untouched inscriptions as well as drawings.",
        "Test recurring sign sequences and structural correspondences with specialists.",
        "Maintain wood dates and engraving dates separately."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "rongo/",
          "label": "Inspect the sign inventories and earlier experiment"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [
        "indus-trade"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "indus-writing",
        "rongo-writing"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "indus",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "jiroft-olmec",
      "title": "Figures within serpentine worlds",
      "dek": "Handled forms, human figures and snakes in the Jiroft–La Venta comparison.",
      "motifs": [
        "serpents",
        "handled"
      ],
      "members": [
        "jiroft-object",
        "laventa19"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The proposed resemblance combines several features instead of relying on a lone snake or container.",
      "features": [
        "Both selected images combine a human figure with serpentine elements."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Jiroft’s central figure holds flanking animals; La Venta’s seated figure lies within a larger creature.",
        "The apparent “bag” is the whole Jiroft object but a small depicted object at La Venta."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "atlas",
        "note": "The earlier picture study and atlas preserve this proposed pair. The original external proposer and Jiroft object provenance remain open."
      },
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "laventa"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Trace the Jiroft object to a museum accession and acquisition history.",
        "Compare whole-object function separately from depicted motifs."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "jiroft",
        "olmec"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "jiroft",
        "olmec"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "boars-east-west",
      "title": "Two animals, two uncertain captions",
      "dek": "A boar comparison that begins with identity rather than a verdict.",
      "motifs": [
        "animals"
      ],
      "members": [
        "boar-unidentified",
        "lingjiatan-pig"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The supplied photographs invite a comparison between distant animal sculptures, but one findspot and the other caption remain unverified.",
      "features": [
        "Each photograph shows a low, elongated animal form."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The museum object on the other side of the comparison remains unidentified.",
        "The Lingjiatan weight and tomb number now have a second caption-level source, not an excavation report.",
        "Material, size, condition and reconstruction are not yet securely comparable."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "inputs",
        "note": "Two supplied images prompted this comparison. Their captions are retained as leads."
      },
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Identify the unresolved museum object and obtain its collection record.",
        "Trace the Lingjiatan pig to an excavation publication for tomb 07M23.",
        "Check whether repairs or display angles change the apparent silhouette."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "unknown-boar",
        "china-pig"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "unassigned",
        "lingjiatan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "arnhem-pillar43",
      "title": "Another bird and rounded form",
      "dek": "The Australian painting in Fenton’s proposed connection.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "arnhem-painting",
        "pillar43"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The proposal connects a northern Australian painting with Neolithic Anatolia; the Australian panel’s age is central to testing it.",
      "features": [
        "The claim image places a bird-like figure near a rounded form."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The exact panel and source photograph are unresolved.",
        "Different paint marks could change the interpretation of contact, holding or adjacency."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "fenton",
        "note": "A specific comparison in the preserved thread. This is a record of that proposal, not an endorsement of its route."
      },
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "p43",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Trace the panel through Aboriginal custodians’ and specialist records.",
        "Establish permissible documentation, attribution and a panel-specific chronology."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "fenton.html#fenton-bird",
          "label": "Read the preserved claim and image checks"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "arnhem",
        "p43-composition"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "arnhem",
        "neolithic-anatolia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "serpents-across-worlds",
      "title": "When does a serpent become the same serpent?",
      "dek": "A widely shared creature needs a precise comparison.",
      "motifs": [
        "serpents"
      ],
      "members": [
        "serpent-montage",
        "laventa19"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The proposing montage links distant serpent forms through extra features such as feathers, horns or relations to people.",
      "features": [
        "Elongated, curving creatures recur in the assembled presentations."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Some component images are unlocated and undated.",
        "Horns, feathers, beaks and crest-like forms should not be merged into one binary feature."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "fenton",
        "note": "The preserved thread provides the distant montage. La Venta is a separately sourced example for inspection, not proof of the proposed route."
      },
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "laventa",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Split the montage into independently sourced surfaces.",
        "Document local serpent traditions before testing a shared bundle of features."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "fenton.html#fenton-feathers",
          "label": "Inspect the original montage"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "serpents-unresolved",
        "olmec"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "unassigned",
        "olmec"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "teachers-across-oceans",
      "title": "Teachers from another world",
      "dek": "Oannes, Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl, compared at the level of passages.",
      "motifs": [
        "teachers"
      ],
      "members": [
        "oannes",
        "viracocha",
        "quetzalcoatl"
      ],
      "status": "examined",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "Lists of teachers, civilisers and sea journeys suggest a shared story. Source-level comparison asks which elements actually travel together.",
      "features": [
        "Teaching or institutions are associated with each figure.",
        "Water or sea departures occur in different parts of the selected accounts."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Arrival from the sea, nightly return to the sea and final departure across it are different events.",
        "Recording dates are not the dates at which the traditions began.",
        "The compared accounts do not establish one matching promise of personal return."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unestablished",
        "note": "No transmission sequence for this specific comparison has been established in the sources reviewed. That is not proof that contact was impossible."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "civilisers",
        "note": "The project’s source audit tests the familiar proposed “civilisers” bundle. Hancock’s broader proposal is linked as context rather than as authorship of each formulation."
      },
      "sources": [
        "berossus",
        "sarmiento",
        "sahagun",
        "hancock",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Expand local versions and indigenous-language witnesses.",
        "Blindly code event sequences with independently checked translations."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "civilisers.html",
          "label": "Read all 29 inspected source passages"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "teachers-mesopotamia",
        "teachers-andes",
        "teachers-mexico"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "mesopotamian-accounts",
        "andean-accounts",
        "nahua-accounts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bochica-oannes",
      "title": "A sea journey that changes in the telling",
      "dek": "Bochica shows why compressed retellings need checking.",
      "motifs": [
        "teachers"
      ],
      "members": [
        "bochica",
        "oannes"
      ],
      "status": "corrected",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "The proposed parallel depends partly on details added or collapsed in modern summaries. The underlying teaching resemblance remains available to examine.",
      "features": [
        "Both accounts concern figures associated with instruction."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The inspected Bochica witness has an inland arrival, not a sea arrival.",
        "Oannes’s nightly sea return is not the same as a final voyage or promised return."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "civilisers",
        "note": "The original lineup used modern summaries; the later source audit corrects the claimed bundle."
      },
      "sources": [
        "piedrahita",
        "berossus",
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Trace earlier Bochica witnesses and separately code weaving, preaching, arrival and departure."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "civilisers.html",
          "label": "See the source correction"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "teachers-muisca",
        "teachers-mesopotamia"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "muisca",
        "mesopotamian-accounts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pohnpei-teachers",
      "title": "The navigator in the collage",
      "dek": "An intriguing caption, still looking for its source.",
      "motifs": [
        "teachers"
      ],
      "members": [
        "navigator",
        "oannes"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A supplied post places a navigator figure alongside monumental building. Before comparison, the figure and story must be linked through a traceable source.",
      "features": [
        "The post proposes a knowledge-bearing visitor."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The wooden figure is not yet identified.",
        "The collage does not establish an archaeological relationship between the figure and Nan Madol."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "inputs",
        "note": "Preserved supplied social post, rather than a primary narrative witness."
      },
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "berossus"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Identify the statue and the earliest recorded account.",
        "Keep the architecture, image and tradition as separate records."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "teachers-pohnpei",
        "teachers-mesopotamia"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "pohnpei",
        "mesopotamian-accounts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "flood-survivors",
      "title": "A warning, a boat, a world remade",
      "dek": "Manu and Mesopotamian flood traditions, without compressing their differences.",
      "motifs": [
        "floods"
      ],
      "members": [
        "gilgamesh-flood",
        "manu-flood"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A common sequence is often presented as deep shared memory. South and West Asia also require a serious regional-transmission check.",
      "features": [
        "A warning and prepared vessel enable survival through a flood."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Manu’s guiding fish differs from the Mesopotamian divine warning.",
        "Bird releases belong to the inspected Gilgamesh account, not to this Manu episode."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "plausible",
        "note": "Regional transmission is a live possibility, not excluded by this catalogue. Retained as a boundary case for the anomaly claim."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "flood-study",
        "note": "The project’s broad flood inquiry motivates the comparison; this entry narrows it to two inspectable source families."
      },
      "sources": [
        "manu",
        "flood-tablet",
        "flood-study"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Audit early witnesses and possible pathways between these regions.",
        "Compare unusual event sequences rather than a generic flood label."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "floods.html",
          "label": "Read the earlier flood study and its limits"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "flood-mesopotamia",
        "flood-india"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "mesopotamian-accounts",
        "vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "stepped-monuments",
      "title": "Distant worlds, stepped monuments",
      "dek": "A proposed Egypt–Maya resemblance enters as a clearly marked research lead.",
      "motifs": [
        "architecture"
      ],
      "members": [
        "saqqara-pyramid",
        "kukulkan"
      ],
      "status": "lead",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A similar stepped outline across an ocean motivates a claim of shared architectural inheritance. Building sequence, use and structural constraints are essential tests.",
      "features": [
        "The proposing article compares visibly stepped monumental forms."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "A funerary monument and a temple platform cannot be assumed to share a function.",
        "Phases, internal construction and restoration history are not yet compared in this entry."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "The comparison is not yet identified or dated well enough to exclude ordinary transmission, later borrowing or an image-selection effect."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "cassaro",
        "note": "Cassaro explicitly pairs the Saqqara and Kukulkan monuments. This is a guest author’s claim, not automatically Hancock’s."
      },
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Obtain heritage records, original photographs and construction-phase plans.",
        "Define detailed architectural predictions before selecting more examples."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "pyramids-egypt",
        "pyramids-maya"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "egypt",
        "maya"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "local-rapanui",
      "title": "A birdman’s local family",
      "dek": "The moai back belongs beside Rapanui rocks, boulders and painted slabs.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "hoa-back",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "control",
      "anomaly": "Local context provides a necessary control: related motifs occur within a documented cultural setting.",
      "features": [
        "Human–bird figures recur on several media within the Orongo repertoire."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Objects are not necessarily contemporary.",
        "A recurring birdman does not require every associated round form to mean the same thing."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "local",
        "note": "Documented local cultural context. This does not by itself explain every feature of each carving."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "central",
        "note": "A local comparison built from museum and early photographic records."
      },
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "boulder",
        "routledge",
        "painted-slab"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Build a dated sequence rather than assuming all local imagery belongs to one phase."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "local-context.html",
          "label": "Read the local-context study"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "rapanui-birdmen"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "rapanui"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "local-anatolia",
      "title": "Birds in a Neolithic landscape",
      "dek": "Pillar 43 considered alongside another local animal ensemble.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "pillar43",
        "pillar2",
        "pillar33",
        "pillar38",
        "pillar56"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "control",
      "anomaly": "This control asks which elements already belong to the local image world.",
      "features": [
        "Birds occur with other animals on more than one Göbekli Tepe pillar."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Pillar 2 does not duplicate the disc-and-wing composition.",
        "Two examples cannot establish motif rarity."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "local",
        "note": "Shared site context is established. More regional examples and their stratigraphy are still needed."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "cranes",
        "note": "Excavation-team discussion motivates the local comparison."
      },
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Add Pillars 33, 38 and 56 only with traceable images and object-level records."
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "local-context.html",
          "label": "Explore regional context"
        }
      ],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "anatolian-birds"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "neolithic-anatolia"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pacific-contact",
      "title": "What independent contact evidence looks like",
      "dek": "Rapa Nui and the Americas, through ancient genomes.",
      "motifs": [
        "contact"
      ],
      "members": [
        "rapanui-contact",
        "american-contact"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "control",
      "anomaly": "A positive control: evidence of contact need not depend on deciding whether two images look alike.",
      "features": [
        "A genetic study supports a pre-European contact episode."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Genetic admixture does not identify which cultural motifs, if any, crossed with people.",
        "It supplies no Neolithic Anatolia-to-Pacific route."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "documented",
        "note": "Independent genetic evidence supports pre-European contact with the Americas. The exact voyage and transmission of specific motifs remain separate questions."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "dna",
        "note": "A research control added for the question of isolation, not a visual anomaly."
      },
      "sources": [
        "dna"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Test any iconographic transmission claim against object chronology and geographic specificity."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "contact-pacific",
        "contact-americas"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "rapanui",
        "american-contact"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "indus-trade",
      "title": "Objects that really travelled",
      "dek": "The Indus world and Mesopotamia as a documented exchange control.",
      "motifs": [
        "contact",
        "scripts"
      ],
      "members": [
        "indus-signs",
        "indus-exchange-record"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "control",
      "anomaly": "Ordinary exchange has material evidence. This control explains the standard that distant resemblance hypotheses should aim to meet.",
      "features": [
        "Indus and Mesopotamian finds support long-distance exchange in the Bronze Age."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "The displayed Met seal illustrates Indus writing; it is not claimed here to be one of the exported seals.",
        "The counterpart is a summary of exchange evidence. Individual imported finds and their archaeological contexts remain to be catalogued."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "documented",
        "note": "Regional trade is supported by finds in the other region, independently of similarity. The Met education source describes that evidence."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "indus-trade",
        "note": "Institutional discussion of actual exchanged seals; this entry is a context control, not an artefact pair."
      },
      "sources": [
        "indus-trade",
        "met-indus"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Register excavated traded seals with findspots, dated contexts and photographs, distinguishing Indus, Gulf and locally adapted forms."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-19",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial / AI-assisted source review",
        "note": "Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection."
      },
      "groups": [
        "indus-writing",
        "mesopotamian-exchange"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "indus",
        "mesopotamian-exchange"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tiwanaku-birdmen",
      "title": "Bird-headed attendants across traditions",
      "dek": "The Gate of the Sun joins the wider birdman question.",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "members": [
        "gate-sun",
        "apkallu",
        "hoa-back",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab"
      ],
      "status": "source-check",
      "kind": "claim",
      "anomaly": "A supplied post places Tiwanaku’s bird-headed attendants within a wider birdman comparison. Their poses, attributes and local histories need separate comparison.",
      "features": [
        "Bird-headed figures occur in all three selected groups."
      ],
      "differences": [
        "Staff-bearing attendants, protective figures and Rapanui birdmen occupy different scenes and contexts.",
        "“Viracocha” is a traditional identification of the central figure, not an inscription."
      ],
      "diffusion": {
        "status": "unassessed",
        "note": "This input-led extension has not established or excluded a transmission route."
      },
      "origin": {
        "source": "intake",
        "note": "Archaic Lens quoting Jason Wilde in the supplied 10 September 2026 screenshot; the wider grouping is an editorial cross-reference."
      },
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "met-apkallu",
        "hoa",
        "intake"
      ],
      "next_steps": [
        "Trace the Tiwanaku carving’s chronology and iconographic scholarship.",
        "Compare the literal pose and held attributes before comparing divine names."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "controls": [
        "local-rapanui"
      ],
      "review": {
        "date": "2026-09-20",
        "reviewer": "Deep Memory editorial",
        "note": "Source-led catalogue extension, not an independent specialist review."
      },
      "groups": [
        "gate-attendants",
        "nimrud",
        "rapanui-birdmen"
      ],
      "cultures": [
        "tiwanaku",
        "assyria",
        "rapanui"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "motifs": [
    {
      "id": "birds",
      "label": "Birds & birdmen",
      "note": "Bird bodies, human transformations and the placement of rounded forms."
    },
    {
      "id": "handled",
      "label": "Handled forms",
      "note": "Containers, arches and the things called handbags."
    },
    {
      "id": "bodies",
      "label": "Bodies & gestures",
      "note": "Hands, ribs, posture and the grammar of a carved body."
    },
    {
      "id": "scripts",
      "label": "Signs & scripts",
      "note": "Individual shapes, whole inventories and repeated sequences."
    },
    {
      "id": "serpents",
      "label": "Serpents & creatures",
      "note": "Which extra features make a familiar animal distinctive?"
    },
    {
      "id": "centres",
      "label": "Sacred centres",
      "note": "Objects, place names and the metaphor of a world’s navel."
    },
    {
      "id": "teachers",
      "label": "Teachers & voyagers",
      "note": "Teaching figures, sea journeys and the history of a retelling."
    },
    {
      "id": "floods",
      "label": "Floods & renewal",
      "note": "Warnings, vessels, surviving life and the search for land."
    },
    {
      "id": "architecture",
      "label": "Monuments",
      "note": "Construction, geometry and the purpose of a building."
    },
    {
      "id": "animals",
      "label": "Animal sculpture",
      "note": "Specific creatures, uncertain captions and full-object comparisons."
    },
    {
      "id": "contact",
      "label": "Contact evidence",
      "note": "Independent evidence useful for testing a proposed transmission."
    }
  ],
  "cultures": [
    {
      "id": "neolithic-anatolia",
      "label": "Neolithic Anatolia",
      "members": [
        "pillar43",
        "pillar2",
        "urfa-man",
        "karahan-ribs",
        "pillar33",
        "pillar38",
        "pillar56"
      ],
      "note": "Regional grouping, not a claim that every site or carving belongs to one homogeneous culture."
    },
    {
      "id": "rapanui",
      "label": "Rapanui traditions",
      "members": [
        "hoa-back",
        "hoa-front",
        "boulder",
        "mata-ngarau",
        "orongo-slab",
        "rongorongo",
        "kavakava",
        "te-pito",
        "rapanui-contact"
      ],
      "note": "Different media and episodes in Rapa Nui’s history. Statue construction, later carving, texts and modern records remain separate."
    },
    {
      "id": "assyria",
      "label": "Assyrian imagery",
      "members": [
        "apkallu"
      ],
      "note": "A documented Neo-Assyrian palace context. Earlier Mesopotamian literature is a separate cluster."
    },
    {
      "id": "olmec",
      "label": "Olmec La Venta",
      "members": [
        "laventa19"
      ],
      "note": "This edition represents La Venta with one monument; it cannot estimate variation across Olmec imagery."
    },
    {
      "id": "tiwanaku",
      "label": "Tiwanaku",
      "members": [
        "ponce",
        "gate-sun"
      ],
      "note": "A selected monumental figure; wider Andean traditions are not collapsed into this cluster."
    },
    {
      "id": "cacaxtla",
      "label": "Epiclassic Cacaxtla",
      "members": [
        "cacaxtla-bird"
      ],
      "note": "A local painted repertoire within a connected Mesoamerican world."
    },
    {
      "id": "mississippian",
      "label": "Mississippian Cahokia",
      "members": [
        "cahokia-bird"
      ],
      "note": "A provisional object lead. The tablet now has a photograph; its accession and dating records are still to be checked."
    },
    {
      "id": "delphi",
      "label": "Greek Delphi",
      "members": [
        "omphalos"
      ],
      "note": "The sacred-centre tradition and the date of the pictured museum object need separate sources."
    },
    {
      "id": "indus",
      "label": "Indus / Harappan",
      "members": [
        "indus-signs"
      ],
      "note": "A geographically distributed corpus with changing phases, represented here by one museum example and a sign-study archive."
    },
    {
      "id": "jiroft",
      "label": "Jiroft region",
      "members": [
        "jiroft-object"
      ],
      "note": "Provisional regional attribution, not an excavated object context or a fully described culture."
    },
    {
      "id": "lingjiatan",
      "label": "Lingjiatan",
      "members": [
        "lingjiatan-pig"
      ],
      "note": "A caption-based lead awaiting collection and excavation checks."
    },
    {
      "id": "arnhem",
      "label": "Arnhem Land · attribution open",
      "members": [
        "arnhem-painting"
      ],
      "note": "A geographic lead, not one culture. Community, artist, site and chronology remain unresolved."
    },
    {
      "id": "mesopotamian-accounts",
      "label": "Mesopotamian accounts",
      "members": [
        "oannes",
        "gilgamesh-flood"
      ],
      "note": "Literary traditions with multiple periods and surviving witnesses; their recording dates do not date the narrated events."
    },
    {
      "id": "andean-accounts",
      "label": "Andean accounts",
      "members": [
        "viracocha"
      ],
      "note": "Selected colonial witness to a tradition whose earlier history needs separate evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "nahua-accounts",
      "label": "Nahua accounts",
      "members": [
        "quetzalcoatl"
      ],
      "note": "Sources shaped by Nahua collaborators and colonial recording; no single origin date is assigned."
    },
    {
      "id": "muisca",
      "label": "Muisca accounts",
      "members": [
        "bochica"
      ],
      "note": "A selected colonial source family, not the whole living or historical tradition."
    },
    {
      "id": "pohnpei",
      "label": "Pohnpei · story untraced",
      "members": [
        "navigator"
      ],
      "note": "An unverified narrative lead, not an authenticated catalogue of Pohnpeian tradition."
    },
    {
      "id": "vedic",
      "label": "Vedic textual tradition",
      "members": [
        "manu-flood"
      ],
      "note": "One inspected Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa episode; composition and manuscript chronology remain to be audited."
    },
    {
      "id": "egypt",
      "label": "Old Kingdom Egypt",
      "members": [
        "saqqara-pyramid"
      ],
      "note": "An architectural comparison lead awaiting its independent object-level source dossier."
    },
    {
      "id": "maya",
      "label": "Maya Chichén Itzá",
      "members": [
        "kukulkan"
      ],
      "note": "A particular monument with multiple building phases, not all Maya architecture."
    },
    {
      "id": "american-contact",
      "label": "Americas · ancestry evidence",
      "members": [
        "american-contact"
      ],
      "note": "A research category, not a single culture. Exact ancestral locality is not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "unassigned",
      "label": "Identity still open",
      "members": [
        "boar-unidentified",
        "serpent-montage"
      ],
      "note": "Unresolved records stay discoverable without invented cultural attribution."
    },
    {
      "id": "mesopotamian-exchange",
      "label": "Mesopotamian exchange contexts",
      "members": [
        "indus-exchange-record"
      ],
      "note": "A regional context for the documented Indus trade control. Individual finds and phases remain to be registered."
    },
    {
      "id": "late-egypt",
      "label": "Late & Ptolemaic Egypt",
      "members": [
        "met-329907",
        "met-544092",
        "met-544093"
      ],
      "note": "Three source-linked museum objects from distinct Late Period and Ptolemaic contexts. Their shared iconography does not make the periods interchangeable."
    }
  ],
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "bird-figures",
      "label": "Birds & human forms",
      "summary": "Bird bodies, human limbs, costumes and attendants. Which combinations recur?",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "bird",
          "label": "Bird form"
        },
        {
          "id": "human",
          "label": "Human-shaped body or limbs"
        },
        {
          "id": "costume",
          "label": "Bird costume"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "birdmen-worlds",
        "assyria-rapanui-birdmen",
        "cacaxtla-rapanui",
        "cahokia-rapanui",
        "arnhem-pillar43",
        "tiwanaku-birdmen"
      ],
      "cover": "p43"
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-round-form",
      "label": "The bird & the rounded form",
      "summary": "A narrower question: where is the rounded form, and how does the bird relate to it?",
      "motifs": [
        "birds"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "bird",
          "label": "Bird form"
        },
        {
          "id": "round",
          "label": "Rounded form in the scene"
        },
        {
          "id": "wing",
          "label": "Above a wing"
        },
        {
          "id": "hand",
          "label": "At a bent hand"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "bird-and-disc",
        "birdmen-worlds"
      ],
      "cover": "boulder"
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms",
      "label": "Handled forms",
      "summary": "An arch is visible. A shared object, use or meaning still needs evidence.",
      "motifs": [
        "handled"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "arched",
          "label": "Arched or handled outline"
        },
        {
          "id": "held",
          "label": "Held by a figure"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "handled-forms",
        "jiroft-olmec"
      ],
      "cover": "met-apkallu"
    },
    {
      "id": "paired-flankers",
      "label": "Figures, staffs & flanking animals",
      "summary": "Central figures with something on each side: one broad family, several distinct arrangements.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies",
        "animals"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "central",
          "label": "Central figure"
        },
        {
          "id": "bilateral",
          "label": "Paired flanking attributes"
        },
        {
          "id": "staffs",
          "label": "Two staffs"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "staff-montage"
    },
    {
      "id": "animal-on-human",
      "label": "An animal over a human back",
      "summary": "The San Agustín–Karahantepe comparison, awaiting object records.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies",
        "animals"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "human",
          "label": "Human figure"
        },
        {
          "id": "back",
          "label": "Creature over the back"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "animal-back-pair"
    },
    {
      "id": "enclosing-creature",
      "label": "Within a creature’s curve",
      "summary": "Figures framed by a serpent or a creature’s open form. The captions need checking.",
      "motifs": [
        "serpents",
        "bodies"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "figure",
          "label": "Human figure"
        },
        {
          "id": "curve",
          "label": "Surrounding creature"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "jiroft-olmec"
      ],
      "cover": "laventa19"
    },
    {
      "id": "torso-gestures",
      "label": "Hands across the torso",
      "summary": "Similar poses across stone figures; the objects and carving episodes stay separate.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "torso",
          "label": "Hands at torso"
        },
        {
          "id": "paired",
          "label": "Both arms represented"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "hands-across-torsos"
      ],
      "cover": "hoa_front"
    },
    {
      "id": "ribbed-figures",
      "label": "Ribs & lean bodies",
      "summary": "Prominent ribs in Anatolian sculpture and Rapanui wooden figures.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "ribs",
          "label": "Prominent ribs"
        },
        {
          "id": "human",
          "label": "Human figure"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "ribs-across-oceans"
      ],
      "cover": "karahan_man"
    },
    {
      "id": "neck-lines",
      "label": "Marks at the neck",
      "summary": "Urfa Man’s collar and the proposed “V-neck” on Pillar 43.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies",
        "birds"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "neck",
          "label": "Lines at neck"
        },
        {
          "id": "v",
          "label": "V-shaped arrangement"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "urfa_man"
    },
    {
      "id": "t-shaped-figures",
      "label": "T-shaped forms",
      "summary": "Pillars, headdresses and painted figures in a proposed Australian connection.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies",
        "architecture"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "t",
          "label": "T-shaped outline"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "t-shape-input"
    },
    {
      "id": "body-signs",
      "label": "Signs on bodies & stones",
      "summary": "Bracketed marks, body painting and incised objects in the supplied thread.",
      "motifs": [
        "scripts",
        "bodies"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "bracket",
          "label": "Bracketed geometric forms"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "body-sign-input"
    },
    {
      "id": "birthing-figures",
      "label": "Squatting & birthing figures",
      "summary": "A posture comparison whose identities, episodes and meanings need untangling.",
      "motifs": [
        "bodies"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "squat",
          "label": "Squatting posture"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [],
      "cover": "birth-input"
    },
    {
      "id": "serpent-beings",
      "label": "Serpents & composite creatures",
      "summary": "Head shapes, feathers and body curves: keep the specific feature in view.",
      "motifs": [
        "serpents"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "serpent",
          "label": "Serpentlike form"
        },
        {
          "id": "head",
          "label": "Broad or elaborate head"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "serpents-across-worlds",
        "jiroft-olmec"
      ],
      "cover": "serpent-montage"
    },
    {
      "id": "animal-sculpture",
      "label": "Animal sculpture",
      "summary": "Boars, pigs and unseparated animal images from the inputs.",
      "motifs": [
        "animals"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "animal",
          "label": "Animal form"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "boars-east-west"
      ],
      "cover": "boar"
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-centres",
      "label": "Centres of the world",
      "summary": "Stones, place names and claims of a sacred centre are different kinds of evidence.",
      "motifs": [
        "centres"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "centre",
          "label": "Centre or navel association"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "sacred-navels"
      ],
      "cover": "omphalos"
    },
    {
      "id": "sign-systems",
      "label": "Signs & scripts",
      "summary": "From selected look-alikes to whole repertoires and families of signs.",
      "motifs": [
        "scripts"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "signs",
          "label": "Repeated graphic signs"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "indus-rongorongo"
      ],
      "cover": "met-indus"
    },
    {
      "id": "teaching-figures",
      "label": "Teachers & travellers",
      "summary": "Arrivals, instruction and departures, checked against particular witnesses.",
      "motifs": [
        "teachers"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "arrival",
          "label": "Arrival"
        },
        {
          "id": "teaching",
          "label": "Teaching"
        },
        {
          "id": "departure",
          "label": "Departure"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "teachers-across-oceans",
        "bochica-oannes",
        "pohnpei-teachers"
      ],
      "cover": null
    },
    {
      "id": "flood-sequences",
      "label": "Floods & survivors",
      "summary": "A boat is a broad resemblance. A sequence of actions is a more precise question.",
      "motifs": [
        "floods"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "warning",
          "label": "Warning"
        },
        {
          "id": "boat",
          "label": "Boat or vessel"
        },
        {
          "id": "birds",
          "label": "Bird-release sequence"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "flood-survivors"
      ],
      "cover": null
    },
    {
      "id": "stepped-monuments",
      "label": "Stepped monuments",
      "summary": "Similar profiles invite comparison of construction, use and local predecessors.",
      "motifs": [
        "architecture"
      ],
      "features": [
        {
          "id": "steps",
          "label": "Stepped profile"
        }
      ],
      "claims": [
        "stepped-monuments"
      ],
      "cover": null
    }
  ],
  "attestations": [
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-pillar43",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "pillar43",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "Excavation description identifies birds; a human–bird hybrid is disputed."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-pillar2",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "pillar2",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "Local carved bird imagery, not the same bird-and-disc arrangement."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-hoa-back",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "hoa-back",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "moai",
        "miles"
      ],
      "note": "Birdman carvings on the back; not the older statue’s frontal hands."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-boulder",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "boulder",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "boulder",
        "routledge"
      ],
      "note": "Bird-headed human form documented in the museum record and 1919 photograph."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-mata-ngarau",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "mata-ngarau",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "routledge"
      ],
      "note": "A selected local birdman surface, not a complete Rapanui census."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-orongo-slab",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "orongo-slab",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "painted-slab"
      ],
      "note": "Painted birdman from the Orongo repertoire."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-apkallu",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "apkallu",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-apkallu"
      ],
      "note": "Museum-documented bird-headed protective figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-cacaxtla-bird",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "cacaxtla-bird",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human",
        "costume"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cacaxtla",
        "cacaxtla-bird"
      ],
      "note": "A human figure wearing bird costume in the mural."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-cahokia-bird",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "cahokia-bird",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "Birdman tablet; local identity and meaning remain part of the dossier."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-gate-sun",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "gate-sun",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "intake"
      ],
      "note": "Bird-headed attendants are visible in the frieze; the central figure is a separate motif."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-arnhem-painting",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "arnhem-painting",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "Birdlike reading comes from the proposing montage; exact panel untraced."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-round-form-pillar43",
      "family": "bird-round-form",
      "entity": "pillar43",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "round",
        "wing"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "The disc is above the wing, rather than held in a human hand."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-round-form-boulder",
      "family": "bird-round-form",
      "entity": "boulder",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "round",
        "hand"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "boulder",
        "routledge"
      ],
      "note": "The rounded object meets a bent hand. Its meaning is interpreted through the birdman context."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-round-form-hoa-back",
      "family": "bird-round-form",
      "entity": "hoa-back",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "round"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "moai",
        "miles",
        "pitts2014"
      ],
      "note": "An older ring lies below the paired birdmen. Pitts et al. propose arms reaching around it and possible reinterpretation as an egg; the exact grip remains uncertain."
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms-pillar43",
      "family": "handled-forms",
      "entity": "pillar43",
      "features": [
        "arched"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "Three arched forms at the top; no hand holds them. Calling them bags is an interpretation."
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms-apkallu",
      "family": "handled-forms",
      "entity": "apkallu",
      "features": [
        "arched",
        "held"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-apkallu"
      ],
      "note": "A handled bucket is held beside the body."
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms-laventa19",
      "family": "handled-forms",
      "entity": "laventa19",
      "features": [
        "arched",
        "held"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "laventa",
        "laventa-site"
      ],
      "note": "Small handled form associated with the seated figure; use is not identified here."
    },
    {
      "id": "handled-forms-jiroft-object",
      "family": "handled-forms",
      "entity": "jiroft-object",
      "features": [
        "arched"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "Supplied image and attribution; exact provenance and date unresolved."
    },
    {
      "id": "paired-flankers-gate-sun",
      "family": "paired-flankers",
      "entity": "gate-sun",
      "features": [
        "central",
        "bilateral",
        "staffs"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs",
        "intake"
      ],
      "note": "Two staffs flank the central figure; the surrounding bird-headed attendants are another part of the scene."
    },
    {
      "id": "enclosing-creature-laventa19",
      "family": "enclosing-creature",
      "entity": "laventa19",
      "features": [
        "figure",
        "curve"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "laventa",
        "laventa-site"
      ],
      "note": "The serpent curves around the seated figure. The repeated montage panels reference this same object."
    },
    {
      "id": "torso-gestures-urfa-man",
      "family": "torso-gestures",
      "entity": "urfa-man",
      "features": [
        "torso",
        "paired"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "newman",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning."
    },
    {
      "id": "torso-gestures-hoa-front",
      "family": "torso-gestures",
      "entity": "hoa-front",
      "features": [
        "torso",
        "paired"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "hoa",
        "moai",
        "dna"
      ],
      "note": "Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning."
    },
    {
      "id": "torso-gestures-ponce",
      "family": "torso-gestures",
      "entity": "ponce",
      "features": [
        "torso",
        "paired"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "Visible torso gesture; this does not assert identical pose or meaning."
    },
    {
      "id": "ribbed-figures-karahan-ribs",
      "family": "ribbed-figures",
      "entity": "karahan-ribs",
      "features": [
        "ribs",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "karahan",
        "paqui"
      ],
      "note": "Ribs are visible; dating and function require their own source records."
    },
    {
      "id": "ribbed-figures-kavakava",
      "family": "ribbed-figures",
      "entity": "kavakava",
      "features": [
        "ribs",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "kavakava-photo",
        "kavakava",
        "paqui"
      ],
      "note": "Ribs are visible; dating and function require their own source records."
    },
    {
      "id": "neck-lines-urfa-man",
      "family": "neck-lines",
      "entity": "urfa-man",
      "features": [
        "neck",
        "v"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "newman",
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "The V-shaped collar/necklace is visible; a garment interpretation is not required."
    },
    {
      "id": "neck-lines-pillar43",
      "family": "neck-lines",
      "entity": "pillar43",
      "features": [
        "neck"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "Fenton reads the bird’s neck pattern as a V-neck garment; that reading is unresolved."
    },
    {
      "id": "t-shaped-figures-pillar43",
      "family": "t-shaped-figures",
      "entity": "pillar43",
      "features": [
        "t"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "whole object",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "p43",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "The pillar’s overall shape; not a claim that a headdress is represented."
    },
    {
      "id": "serpent-beings-laventa19",
      "family": "serpent-beings",
      "entity": "laventa19",
      "features": [
        "serpent",
        "head"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "laventa",
        "laventa-site"
      ],
      "note": "The surrounding creature has an elaborate head; a shared name or mythology is not inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "serpent-beings-serpent-montage",
      "family": "serpent-beings",
      "entity": "serpent-montage",
      "features": [
        "serpent"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "unseparated montage",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "A heterogeneous montage awaits object-by-object separation."
    },
    {
      "id": "animal-sculpture-boar-unidentified",
      "family": "animal-sculpture",
      "entity": "boar-unidentified",
      "features": [
        "animal"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "whole object",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "Animal form visible; precise identity, source and dates remain under review."
    },
    {
      "id": "animal-sculpture-lingjiatan-pig",
      "family": "animal-sculpture",
      "entity": "lingjiatan-pig",
      "features": [
        "animal"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "whole object",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "Animal form visible; precise identity, source and dates remain under review."
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-centres-omphalos",
      "family": "sacred-centres",
      "entity": "omphalos",
      "features": [
        "centre"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "object and reported association",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas"
      ],
      "note": "Association follows the comparison’s source dossier; object date and the age of the name are separate."
    },
    {
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      "family": "sacred-centres",
      "entity": "te-pito",
      "features": [
        "centre"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "object and reported association",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "atlas",
        "moai"
      ],
      "note": "Association follows the comparison’s source dossier; object date and the age of the name are separate."
    },
    {
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      "family": "sign-systems",
      "entity": "indus-signs",
      "features": [
        "signs"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "corpus overview",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-indus",
        "script-study"
      ],
      "note": "Corpus record, not an attestation of every chart pairing."
    },
    {
      "id": "sign-systems-rongorongo",
      "family": "sign-systems",
      "entity": "rongorongo",
      "features": [
        "signs"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "corpus overview",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "rongo-dates",
        "rongo-bm",
        "script-study"
      ],
      "note": "Corpus record, not an attestation of every chart pairing."
    },
    {
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      "family": "teaching-figures",
      "entity": "oannes",
      "features": [
        "arrival",
        "teaching",
        "departure"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "named textual witness",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "The mediated Berossus account records emergence, instruction and return to the sea. These are events within this witness, not three independent attestations."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaching-figures-viracocha",
      "family": "teaching-figures",
      "entity": "viracocha",
      "features": [
        "departure"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "named textual witness",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "Departure over the sea is explicit in V3 of the source audit. The teaching claim is uncertain in the inspected passage."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaching-figures-quetzalcoatl",
      "family": "teaching-figures",
      "entity": "quetzalcoatl",
      "features": [
        "teaching",
        "departure"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "named textual witness",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "Teaching and departure are recorded in the inspected witness; arrival from overseas and a personal return promise are not established there."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaching-figures-bochica",
      "family": "teaching-figures",
      "entity": "bochica",
      "features": [
        "teaching"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "named textual witness",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "civilisers"
      ],
      "note": "The inspected account supports a teaching-figure comparison only provisionally; some craft claims need earlier witnesses. It describes disappearance, not a departure over the sea."
    },
    {
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      "family": "teaching-figures",
      "entity": "navigator",
      "features": [
        "arrival",
        "teaching"
      ],
      "status": "provisional",
      "scope": "modern retelling",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "inputs"
      ],
      "note": "Only the modern supplied post reports this unnamed tradition; an underlying witness has not been traced."
    },
    {
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      "family": "flood-sequences",
      "entity": "gilgamesh-flood",
      "features": [
        "warning",
        "boat",
        "birds"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "textual episode",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "flood-tablet",
        "flood-study"
      ],
      "note": "Flood Tablet witness includes a vessel and bird-release sequence; those birds do not transfer to every flood story."
    },
    {
      "id": "flood-sequences-manu-flood",
      "family": "flood-sequences",
      "entity": "manu-flood",
      "features": [
        "warning",
        "boat"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "textual episode",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "manu"
      ],
      "note": "Fish warning and boat in the cited passage; no bird-release claim entered."
    },
    {
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      "family": "stepped-monuments",
      "entity": "saqqara-pyramid",
      "features": [
        "steps"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "monument",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "note": "Broad architectural form, with individual construction phases not yet entered."
    },
    {
      "id": "stepped-monuments-kukulkan",
      "family": "stepped-monuments",
      "entity": "kukulkan",
      "features": [
        "steps"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "monument",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cassaro"
      ],
      "note": "Broad architectural form, with individual construction phases not yet entered."
    },
    {
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      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "pillar33",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "photographed pillar surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "The robust bent legs matter to the local bird–human interpretation."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-pillar38",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "pillar38",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "photographed pillar surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "Multiple birds belong to one pillar, not several independent artefacts."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-pillar56",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "pillar56",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "photographed pillar surface",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "cranes",
        "gt-dates"
      ],
      "note": "A local anatomical contrast; the source treats these legs as more naturalistic."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-met-329907",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "met-329907",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single figure in museum photograph",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-329907"
      ],
      "note": "A beaked human form with a substantially different pose."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-met-544092",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "met-544092",
      "features": [
        "bird",
        "human"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single figure in museum photograph",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-544092"
      ],
      "note": "A closer anatomical parallel than a shared arrangement."
    },
    {
      "id": "bird-figures-met-544093",
      "family": "bird-figures",
      "entity": "met-544093",
      "features": [
        "bird"
      ],
      "status": "documented",
      "scope": "single figure in museum photograph",
      "date_indices": [
        0
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-544093"
      ],
      "note": "A bird beside an emblem: similar ingredients, different anatomical relation."
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      "title": "Staff holders and “masters of animals”",
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        "paired-flankers"
      ],
      "media": [
        "staff-montage"
      ],
      "inputs": [
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      ],
      "note": "The seven headings mix countries and huge regions. Similar flanking layouts do not establish that every figure holds animals or two staffs. Repeated views may occur.",
      "next_step": "Identify each panel against a collection or excavation record; compare held animals, staffs and free-standing attendants separately.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [
        {
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          "label": "Bolivia",
          "identity": "matched",
          "entity": "gate-sun",
          "note": "Top-left is the Gate of the Sun; the montage’s remaining identities and repetitions require source matching."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Peru",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Costa Rica",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "“Columbia” (caption spelling)",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Indo-Pacific",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Egypt",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Mediterranean",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c1",
          "label": "Bolivia",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c2",
          "label": "Peru",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c3",
          "label": "Costa Rica",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c4",
          "label": "“Columbia” (caption spelling)",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Indo-Pacific",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c6",
          "label": "Egypt",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r2-c7",
          "label": "Mediterranean",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Bolivia",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r3-c2",
          "label": "Peru",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r3-c3",
          "label": "Costa Rica",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r3-c4",
          "label": "“Columbia” (caption spelling)",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
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          "label": "Indo-Pacific",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r3-c6",
          "label": "Egypt",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        },
        {
          "id": "r3-c7",
          "label": "Mediterranean",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null,
          "note": "Regional heading transcribed, not adopted as an object identification."
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      ],
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      ],
      "inputs": [
        "Screenshot 2026-09-13 at 5.14.08 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "The two locations are the poster’s attributions. Object numbers, photo credits, dates and original contexts have not been verified here.",
      "next_step": "Trace both sculptures to museum or excavation records; document the creature’s position and whether the human carries or wears it.",
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        {
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          "label": "San Agustín, Colombia · caption",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null
        },
        {
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          "label": "Karahantepe · caption",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Egypt, Mexico and a Māori-labelled drawing",
      "families": [
        "enclosing-creature",
        "serpent-beings"
      ],
      "media": [
        "enclosing-montage"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "HSoBoZ3awAAjXof.jpeg"
      ],
      "note": "The two Mexican panels show the same Olmec monument, La Venta 19. “South America” and “Aztecs, Toltecs” mislabel it. The Egyptian “Hapi” and Māori attributions remain untraced. “Quetzalcoatl” is not a verified identification of the seated figure.",
      "next_step": "Find the Egyptian object and original Māori illustration; retain the two Mexican views under one physical identity.",
      "claims": [
        "jiroft-olmec",
        "serpents-across-worlds"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [
        {
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          "label": "“Egyptian god Hapi” · caption",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null
        },
        {
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          "label": "La Venta Monument 19",
          "identity": "matched",
          "entity": "laventa19"
        },
        {
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          "label": "La Venta Monument 19 · another view",
          "identity": "matched",
          "entity": "laventa19"
        },
        {
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          "label": "“Māori New Zealand” · caption",
          "identity": "unverified",
          "entity": null
        }
      ],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "laventa",
        "laventa-site"
      ],
      "status": "corrected"
    },
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      "title": "Faces within birdlike masks",
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        "enclosing-creature"
      ],
      "media": [
        "bird-mask-front",
        "bird-mask-profile",
        "bird-mask-oblique"
      ],
      "inputs": [
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        "HR8a1UvaIAAYYKT.jpeg",
        "HR8a1UvacAANypP.jpeg"
      ],
      "note": "Three views may include the same architectural carving. No site, period or collection identity has been adopted from resemblance alone.",
      "next_step": "Match the architecture and carving to a site record before splitting these into separate objects.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "A lion-holder with a modern afterlife",
      "families": [
        "paired-flankers"
      ],
      "media": [
        "lion-pair"
      ],
      "inputs": [
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      ],
      "note": "The left figure is Sydney’s modern Gilgamesh, unveiled in 2000. The right is an Assyrian hero type; its exact Louvre accession needs image matching. This is a useful modern reception control, not an independent ancient Australian parallel.",
      "next_step": "Trace the modern artist’s sources and identify the particular Assyrian relief.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "control",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "sydney"
      ],
      "status": "corrected"
    },
    {
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      "title": "The Egyptian-style ibis-headed figure",
      "families": [
        "bird-figures"
      ],
      "media": [
        "thoth-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.42.17 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "The image resembles Thoth iconography. It has no object identifier or provenance; a modern reproduction remains possible.",
      "next_step": "Find the original object or maker before assigning an ancient date.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Another bird-headed protective relief",
      "families": [
        "bird-figures",
        "handled-forms"
      ],
      "media": [
        "apkallu-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.42.11 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "Bucket, cone and bird-headed figure are visible. It is not assumed to be the Met panel already registered.",
      "next_step": "Identify the museum relief and attach this image to its correct object.",
      "claims": [
        "assyria-rapanui-birdmen",
        "handled-forms"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Modern feather regalia in a bird-costume argument",
      "families": [
        "bird-figures"
      ],
      "media": [
        "costume-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.42.52 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "The post proposes that bird figures represent costumed people. A modern performance photograph does not identify the meaning of an ancient carving; community and event are unverified.",
      "next_step": "Trace the photograph and relevant community interpretation.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "context",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Four Jiroft-labelled handled objects",
      "families": [
        "handled-forms",
        "paired-flankers",
        "serpent-beings"
      ],
      "media": [
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        "jiroft-16",
        "jiroft-22",
        "jiroft-27"
      ],
      "inputs": [
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        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.43.16 AM.png",
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.43.22 AM.png",
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.43.27 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "The screenshots extend the single Jiroft record with several designs. Their caption’s “3000 BC” is not an independently checked date; exact provenance and authenticity remain open.",
      "next_step": "Match each design to an inventory and find context; establish whether any image repeats the existing record.",
      "claims": [
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        "handled-forms"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Kimberley bark buckets and Pillar 43",
      "families": [
        "handled-forms"
      ],
      "media": [
        "bucket-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
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        "fenton/IMG_8506.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "Fenton compares a bark bucket with the pillar’s upper forms. The ethnographic excerpt appears to concern Wunambal country in the Kimberley, not the Arnhem Land painting’s context.",
      "next_step": "Verify the publication page and illustration, then record the container separately from the pillar’s uncertain interpretation.",
      "claims": [
        "handled-forms"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Body painting, tjurunga and pillar signs",
      "families": [
        "body-signs"
      ],
      "media": [
        "body-sign-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8507.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8508.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "The archive traces the body-painting print to Wellcome 21428i; the pillar numbers and sacred-object collection remain untraced. The proposed relation is geometric, not a demonstrated common meaning.",
      "next_step": "Consult the underlying collection records and appropriate community scholarship before coding the symbols.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "T-shaped headdresses and pillars",
      "families": [
        "t-shaped-figures"
      ],
      "media": [
        "t-shape-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8509.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8511.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "Photographs resemble early Arrernte ceremony records, but the exact plates and rock painting remain unidentified. They are not evidence for a single Australian cultural unit.",
      "next_step": "Identify the plates, communities and painting; compare outline separately from use.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
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      "title": "Yingarna, bags and creation",
      "families": [
        "handled-forms",
        "birthing-figures",
        "serpent-beings"
      ],
      "media": [
        "yingarna-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8512.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8513.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "The archive identifies the Injalak Hill painting and reports scholarship placing it among recent, post-contact paintings. It cannot be assigned the pillar’s Neolithic age.",
      "next_step": "Follow the local interpretation and earliest documentation; separate the painting’s age from the age of the tradition.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "birth-posture",
      "title": "Lion Building graffito and Australian paintings",
      "families": [
        "birthing-figures"
      ],
      "media": [
        "birth-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8514.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8515.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "The excavation description treats the squatting figure as a later graffito. Two Australian paintings remain unidentified; “birthing” is a proposed interpretation.",
      "next_step": "Identify and date each depicted surface independently.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "snake-heads",
      "title": "Serpent heads, yam leaves and Rainbow Serpents",
      "families": [
        "serpent-beings"
      ],
      "media": [
        "snake-head-input",
        "birth-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8516.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8517.JPG"
      ],
      "note": "One of four carvings is recognisable on Pillar 43; the other identities are unresolved. The yam-leaf analogy and shared-meaning proposal need separate tests.",
      "next_step": "Identify the carvings, then compare literal head outlines against local snake and plant imagery.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "serpent-mound",
      "title": "Serpent Mound and feathered-serpent imagery",
      "families": [
        "serpent-beings"
      ],
      "media": [
        "serpent-montage"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/IMG_8531.PNG",
        "fenton/IMG_8532.PNG"
      ],
      "note": "The thread compares a landscape monument with several creature images. The montage’s stone head and paintings remain unidentified; it is not a set of dated equivalent objects.",
      "next_step": "Separate the mound, sculpture and paintings; obtain excavation and image sources for each.",
      "claims": [
        "serpents-across-worlds"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "neck-claim",
      "title": "The “V-neck” comparison",
      "families": [
        "neck-lines"
      ],
      "media": [],
      "inputs": [
        "fenton/Screenshot 2026-09-10 at 4.43.40 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "Fenton compares the Pillar 43 bird’s neck pattern with Urfa Man’s collar. The archive preserves the claim; the bird’s identity as a dressed human remains disputed.",
      "next_step": "Compare the actual neck marks, local birds and local collars without assuming a shared garment.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "fenton",
        "central"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "unseparated-animals",
      "title": "Animal images still to separate",
      "families": [
        "animal-sculpture"
      ],
      "media": [
        "animals-input",
        "entrance-input"
      ],
      "inputs": [
        "GyOtfJvWEAARt4O.jpeg",
        "GyOru5ObUAEerOZ.jpeg"
      ],
      "note": "The architectural photograph and multi-object montage were in the atlas but absent from the catalogue. The montage cannot be coded wholesale as lizards or boars.",
      "next_step": "Identify each distinct object and its original source; deduplicate repeat views.",
      "claims": [
        "boars-east-west"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "inputs"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "poster-fidelity",
      "title": "The circulating pillar–moai poster",
      "families": [
        "bird-figures",
        "bird-round-form"
      ],
      "media": [],
      "inputs": [
        "Screenshot 2026-09-03 at 5.44.04 AM.png"
      ],
      "note": "The moai image differs from the documented back. The supplied planning text calls it AI-generated, but its production history has not been proved. It is excluded as an archaeological photograph.",
      "next_step": "Keep the poster as a presentation audit and compare only documented photographs.",
      "claims": [
        "birdmen-worlds",
        "bird-and-disc"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake",
        "central"
      ],
      "status": "corrected"
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-centre-extensions",
      "title": "Cusco, Jerusalem and the name Göbekli Tepe",
      "families": [
        "sacred-centres"
      ],
      "media": [],
      "inputs": [
        "chat_1.md"
      ],
      "note": "The supplied planning note also mentions these centre/navel associations. No specific dated witness was supplied; the modern place name is not a Neolithic inscription.",
      "next_step": "Trace each naming tradition to dated sources before adding cultural attestations.",
      "claims": [
        "sacred-navels"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "script-origin-extensions",
      "title": "Other proposed rongorongo affinities",
      "families": [
        "sign-systems"
      ],
      "media": [],
      "inputs": [
        "rongo/research_1.md"
      ],
      "note": "The supplied AI research draft mentions Cuna/Guna pictographs, Chinese “Yü Pei” signs, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Shang oracle-bone signs, Sumatran ship-cloths, South American systems and Rapanui kai-kai. These are unverified bibliographic leads, not accepted identifications or explanations.",
      "next_step": "Locate the original proposing publications; add specific signs and witnesses only after source checks.",
      "claims": [
        "indus-rongorongo"
      ],
      "kind": "claim",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "suggested-visual-controls",
      "title": "Local corpora and proposed comparison controls",
      "families": [
        "bird-figures"
      ],
      "media": [],
      "inputs": [
        "chat_1.md"
      ],
      "note": "The planning note proposes Çatalhöyük, Nevalı Çori, Egyptian stelae, Izapa, Moche, Nazca, Northwest Coast crest art, Norse stones, Shang bronzes and Etowah plates, alongside already registered Assyrian, Australian and Cahokia material. These suggestions are not a completed corpus or evidence of independent invention.",
      "next_step": "Select bounded, documented corpora before collecting similarity scores.",
      "claims": [],
      "kind": "context",
      "panels": [],
      "sources": [
        "intake"
      ],
      "status": "unresolved"
    }
  ]
}