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Excavation ongoing places tagged “skull cult”

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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village

Kfar HaHoresh

Middle PPNB · PPNB cult complex

PPNB cult and mortuary center (7500–6650 BCE) in the Nazareth hills, not a normal village but a regional feasting and secondary-burial site serving surrounding settlements.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Köşk Höyük — Bor South Skull-Cult Annex

Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (6000–5000 BCE; Levels I–III) · Cappadocian Neolithic–Chalcolithic with Halaf links

Neolithic skull-cult village 6000 BCE — plastered skulls and relief houses.