Since 1998, archaeozoologist Joris Peters of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich has examined more than 100,000 bone fragments from Göbekli Tepe, of which gazelle bones account for more than 60 percent of the total.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by original Smithsonian article and independently corroborated by Skeptic's Dictionary, a peer-reviewed World Archaeology paper co-authored by Peters, and a Cambridge Archaeological Journal citation. Minor variation (58-60%+) in gazelle percentage across sources likely reflects different analysis timepoints, not a factual discrepancy. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://skepdic.com/gobeklitepe.html (corroboration)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2013.820648 (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/relationality-immanence-hierarchy-the-nature-and-culture-of-beings-at-gobekli-tepe/BFD2AB47632CB6389F90705901766DA7 (corroboration)