Animal symbols, such as those used at Gobekli Tepe in modern day Turkey, represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to mark dates and events such as comet strikes, analysis from ...

Pillar 43 from Göbekli Tepe depicting a vulture with its wings spread. Vultures were not only the most important birds in the iconography of Early Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups, they were also ...

Researchers believe the V-shaped symbols would have been Göbekli Tepe’s attempt at such a calendar. Many V symbols are found on a particular pillar (Pillar 43), as well as elsewhere on the site.

Göbekli Tepe, a massive archaeological site nestled ... This insight then led researchers to identify a 365-day solar calendar on one pillar, which includes 12 lunar months and an additional ...