What's actually there
More than 30 burnt gazelle skulls were reported. The deposit belongs outside Special Building 15, not inside it. The reported exterior area is roughly 10 x 3 m.
What to notice
What's carved on it
- animal-head deposit
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The Burnt Gazelle Skulls at Çakmaktepe
This is Çakmaktepe's strongest public object group: more than 30 burnt gazelle skulls were reported outside Special Building 15. The deposit was reported in front of the exterior wall of Special Building 15 over a roughly 10 x 3 m area.
Site: ÇakmaktepeStructure: Special Building 15Type: animal-head deposit
Çakmaktepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)
Fatma Şahin, Cakmaktepe general view, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.