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Lee Clare
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Lee Clare
@drleeclare
Archaeologist and field director at #Göbeklitepe. Insights into current research not found elsewhere. This is my personal account. Views are my own.
Türkiye เข้าร่วม Haziran 2025
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Interesting comments about me on the Danny Jones podcast with @DeDunkingPast. Starting around 1:28:46
Apparently:
I’ve “never been in front of a microphone”
I’ve called Dan “all kind of terrible names”
Yes, I declined an all expenses paid trip to Danny in Florida. Best call ever
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@drleeclare @HKACUP See that’s what I’m talking about. You don’t even know who we are yet you wear your position and you carry the weight of it and you choose to use it by insulting strangers.
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@HKACUP @Shaman711_ Thank you. Yes, the tree is still there. There are various stories attached to it. One of those is the fertility story you mention, though it’s more associated with women going there and tying their wishes to the branches. The other is a place of healing, especially for children
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We certainly do, Lee, and much praise for the work you are doing. I read that Gobekle Tepe was a fertility site somehow. I found it curious that there had been a mulberry tree atop the hill there, since mulberries have been used for millennia in traditional Chinese medicine to spur male potency. In fact, they are prohibited for teenage boys, sinc they are already too randy.
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@Shaman711_ @drleeclare That would be a big hit. Especially among the Sasquatch population who may consider Dan to be one of their own.
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@PortantIssues @Graham__Hancock Yes, “investigations”. In 5 days.
Just enough time to come up with a dodgy narrative and take some snapshots to make it look a bit more convincing for the public. Abhorrent.
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@drleeclare @Graham__Hancock It could be the way he phrased his account: "I have now completed five days of investigation and exploration at the extraordinary 12,000-year old megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey"... making it sound to his followers like it is his investigation! facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10…
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#Göbeklitepe doesn’t need @Graham__Hancock !
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@RealCalypsoJack @Graham__Hancock @DeDunkingPast He‘s never broken a sweat at the site, never excavated a 10,000 year old building or recovered a single find. I’ve been doing it for a decade. He plays the expert to sell his stuff; but without the hard work of the research team, he’d have nothing to talk about. We don’t need him
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@PortantIssues @Graham__Hancock Not sure, but he also hated those photos
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@drleeclare @Graham__Hancock Interesting. I wonder what had happened in the intervening year (when Hancock was writing Fingerprints).
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@PortantIssues @Graham__Hancock This was just a little bit before my time. However, from what I have since learned - and this is a fact - he didn’t want Hancock anywhere near the site by the time of his death in 2014.
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@drleeclare @Graham__Hancock Lee, I have often wondered whether Klaus Schmidt was engaging in a bit of concious marketing inviting Hancock along for that first visit in autumn 2013 and giving him a huge amount of access and guidance. facebook.com/Author.GrahamH…
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Cave paintings discovered in Malatya’s Tohma Canyon. Could be one of the richest corpora in Türkiye. The dating is still unclear - pending multi-disciplinary analyses - but findings from the surroundings suggest a Palaeolithic to Neolithic age.
dailymotion.com/video/xaf8cpy
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@DeDunkingPast @DrDavidMiano is entirely correct with his description of old wood. 14C-dates are all too often either taken at face value, not calibrated, or their contexts completely ignored. Close scrutiny and filtering is absolutely essential when compiling reliable absolute chronologies.
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This is a common error made by those hellbent on preserving a narrative as opposed to sussing the truth.
The exterior of tue log, ie the newest part, is where the most waste comes from. The rounded areas, bark, branches, all these are waste.
David Miano@DrDavidMiano
This is an understandable error made by the unstudied about what the ‘old wood’ effect is. It doesn’t mean a tree that was cut down a long time ago (though this sometimes can be a contributing factor). It means a tree that was alive for a long time. Cedars from Lebanon can live past 600 years. A C14 date taken from it will vary depending on how close to the center of the tree it is. Samples taken from the outer rings will be younger than samples taken from the inner rings.
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Beautiful lithics delivering tantalising insights into the NW Saudi Arabian Neolithic, its connections to adjacent regions and autochthonous developments
Hugh Thomas@DrHughT
New paper is out! Over the last 8 years of fieldwork in N/W Saudi Arabia, we uncovered a series of Neolithic arrowheads, including this absolutely stunning example. This paper was led by @FinnStileman. As it turns out, these little guys can tell us a lot! doi.org/10.1016/j.jasr…
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@history_rev @santobartez Special Building F on the Southwest Mound. One of just two low relief human depictions found on in-situ T-pillars at the site. It dates to rhe EPPNB (8700-8200 BC).
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From one rabbit hole to another... the biggest one.. the obsessive one.. written about a dozen different ways.. everyone has their pet theory on it with ample evidence to support whatever their theory is.... it erased what we thought we knew with a slap across the cheek.. I wanted to have a thread on one of my ideas today, but time has gotten away from me.. So for now a few images from craftsmen who were said to not have existed at the time it was made.. Göbekli Tepe.
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I'm all for exploring more of the Sahara, but only 15-25% of it is covered by sand, the rest is exposed bedrock and gravel plains, so if there were any traces of lost Ice Age cities they'd be exposed on the desert floor and visible in satellite imagery.
Graham Hancock@Graham__Hancock
The Sahara Desert, green and fertile for 5,000 years following the end of the Ice Age (nature.com/scitable/knowl…), is more than twice the size of the Indian subcontinent but has only been the subject of minimal archaeological investigation. Implications in the attached info-image.
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The ancient history space is stuck in a loop.
Same claims. Same recycled mysteries. Same fantasy dressed up as “research.”
But here’s the uncomfortable question:
Do people actually want the truth — or do they just want history to confirm the story they already believe?
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@drleeclare Interesting that despite their apparently intentional burial at Pınarbaşı and Boncuklu, they weren't treated in the same way at the later site of Çatalhöyük.
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Puppy burials and fish-eating dogs at Epipalaeolithic (14000 BC) Pınarbaşı (Türkiye) with genetic similarities to dogs of comparable age at Gough’s Cave in England! These reports are my favourites among the increasing data on our best friend in prehistory
phys.org/news/2026-03-a…
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@AncientEpoch @MoundLore Not fun, at all!
Pushing an agenda by making out its just some honest fun. I have no more words, so we’ll just leave it at that.
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@drleeclare @AUSegyptology You know batons could have been craft tools?
Are there any signs they were used as rollers or fimor flattening and levelling surfaces ?
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Sometimes it’s nice to take a look at the exceptional small finds from #Göbeklitepe. This is a stone baton or sceptre. Interpreted as symbols of power they were perhaps wielded by influential individuals. This one carries incised H-symbols, also found on T-pillars (Clare 2024)
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@RoccoLucero @Megalithic12000 Yes, great statement! I’ll be blunt: You’re a disgusting individual
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Göbekli Tepe was impossible. Then it was an anomaly. Now it was obvious all along.
Every discovery that pushes civilisation backwards goes through the same 3 stages, and the people most certain at stage 1 are still in charge at stage 3.
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