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When archaeologists uncovered this life-sized boar at Göbekli Tepe, red ochre was still visible inside its carved, snarling mouth. Standard museum exhibits display bone-dry, bleached stone, masking how vivid these sanctuaries actually looked 11,000 years ago. It leaves you wondering how many other monolithic pillars were originally painted in... show more
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This skill doesnt appear overnight. There simply has to be older sites somewhere.

This changes how Göbekli Tepe should be imagined. The red, black and white pigments surviving on this boar provided direct evidence that colour formed part of the site's visual world. What survives today in bare limestone may be only a fraction of what these spaces originally looked like.

The dates are the part that stops me. Göbekli Tepe was already being buried before anyone invented writing. Every text we argue over, Enoch and Genesis included, is thousands of years younger than that boar. The carvers left no sentence to explain any of it.

We call it prehistoric because we can't picture it in color. The people who carved that boar's teeth and packed its mouth with ochre saw something closer to a temple statue than a museum relic.

6 teeth with a tusk... Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan has 6 teeth with a fang and 7 humps on El Castillo at Chichen Itza. Kokopelli's back has a spine crossing 6 'ribs'.

Seems like they could have got the nostrils straight.

It's a life-sized statue of a boar, not a life-sized boar.

What is that all about? Any info about it? Curious.

Wonderful and provocative at the same time...thanks for sharing...you bring the most stimulating objects and historical back story to us.

It’s a neat find

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Art History major here. Common practice in Egypt, Greece, throughout ancient Near East. Unpainted showed lack of respect.

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the etymologies for ochre are pretty intriguing. it's connected to biblical terminology that describes the appearance of angels. goethite was one source of it!

Even wilder — Göbekli Tepe predates pottery, writing, and agriculture itself. Hunter-gatherers built and carved this 6,000 years before Stonehenge, then deliberately buried the whole site around 8000 BCE. We still don’t fully know why.

This site is amazing, for having been started 5000 years before some people say the universe was created.

maybe they take on more color in the rain

This is so cool

Well humans have always had color perception.. one must assume just like us they painted all kinds of stuff..

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