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Marks at the neck

Urfa Man’s collar and the proposed “V-neck” on Pillar 43.

2 selected records · 1 intake lead. Membership records a resemblance; it does not establish common origin.

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Record & scopeLines at neckV-shaped arrangement
Urfa Mansingle surfaceRecordedRecorded
Pillar 43single surfaceProvisional—
Cultural context

Neolithic Anatolia

The Balıklıgöl statue, commonly called Urfa Man
Source-linked observation

Urfa Man

Date unresolved

Lines at neckV-shaped arrangement

The V-shaped collar/necklace is visible; a garment interpretation is not required.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • Date unresolved · unresolved
    Early Neolithic attribution is retained as context, but an object-level dating source has not yet been checked for this entry.

Megalithic origins: Göbekli Tepe and Peru · The project’s illustrated comparison archive

Dosseman CC BY-SA 4.0 Image record
Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.

Pillar 43, western carved face, photographed at Göbekli Tepe
Provisional reading

Pillar 43

10th–9th millennia BCE

Lines at neck

Fenton reads the bird’s neck pattern as a V-neck garment; that reading is unresolved.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: single surface

  • 10th–9th millennia BCE · site context
    Broad published site context. No direct measurement dates this individual motif. Date source

Pillar 43: of animals and a headless man · The Göbekli Tepe research project

DAI / K. Schmidt Copyright; reproduced for critical comparison Image record
Existing source image; displayed uncropped. No generated reconstruction.

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Leads worth following.

Preserved claims and images, awaiting the checks needed for object records.

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