NEW HYPOTHESIS: The 11,000-Year-Old Göbekli Tepe Bone Plaque | Ancient Architects

Göbekli Tepe has its fair share of ancient mysteries, and a small bone object, often referred to as a spatula, is one of them, found in 2011 at the iconic 11,500-year-old site in Southeastern Anatolia and measuring just by 1.9 and with a thickness of just 3 mm. You’d be forgiven for swiftly walking past it in a museum, but according to some, it’s an incredibly important artefact, because it’s the first pictorial representation of the famous Göbekli Tepe T-shaped pillars ever discovered. Or is it? The claims regarding this small bone artefact are something I can look into without any bias. It is something that has always split opinion and so now, with a good knowledge of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Turkey, I feel I can give my own independent take.