What was the name of the being whose shoulders were carved in the stone at the top of Pillar 18, and what did people understand when they stood before it?

The stones are still there.

The images are still there.

The answers are not, and may never be.

But the questions themselves are worth living with — because they are the questions of people engaging honestly with the full depth and complexity of their own past.

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The Limestone Plateau and the Human Ecology of the Region

Southeastern Anatolia in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic was not a uniform or homogeneous landscape.