One of the Göbekli Tepe skull fragments has a drilled hole, resembling modifications made by the Naga people of India to suspend skulls from strings.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed primary source (Gresky et al., Science Advances 2017) and multiple independent secondary sources reporting the same findings and interpretation. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Hints of Skull Cult Found at World's Oldest Temple (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700564 (corroboration)
- https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/06/28/new-publication-in-science-advances-evidence-for-skull-cult-at-gobekli-tepe/ (corroboration)
- https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/carved-gobekli-tepe-4322/ (corroboration)