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If bodies have been found, why hasn’t radiocarbon dating been done on them?

• AlotOfReading 4y ago
  Bodies haven't been found at gobekli tepe, only some cranial bone fragments in the fill. They did attempt to date them, but there wasn't enough remaining collagen.
  • 8bitsrule 4y ago
    Do you have access to a recent source spelling out that "haven't been found" ? I don't, but Sweatman has visited the site in the past year, is a well-known student of the site and may know someone who knows. The skull fragments were found many years ago. Sweatman is very careful about science. 'Level II enclosures' are houses, and he says that in one 'they have found a burial with three bodies'. You'll need to take that up with him
    • AlotOfReading 4y ago
      Thanks for making me double-check. I was going to link [1], which was published June 2017, but was not aware of the burials found in Nov. of that same year. I assumed he was simply confusing it with similar sites that have long been known to have subfloor burials. In my defense they seemingly haven't published the burial in any papers that I can find, only in-person lectures that I'm not in the habit of attending anymore. Still, my mistake. [1] https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700564 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700564