HistoryNeolithic (c. 9000 BCE)Anatolia, Turkeyhigh confidence

One of the Göbekli Tepe skull fragments has a drilled hole, resembling modifications made by the Naga people of India to suspend skulls from strings.

Notes on verification

Confirmed by peer-reviewed primary source (Gresky et al., Science Advances 2017) and multiple independent secondary sources reporting the same findings and interpretation.

Sources