HistoryNeolithic (c. 9000 BCE)Anatolia, Turkeyhigh confidence

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]

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