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The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey
Oliver Dietrich, Manfred Heun, Jens Notroff et al., 2012. Antiquity.
Argues from large stone vessels, oxalate residues and huge quantities of animal bone that feasting, possibly with fermented cereal drinks, drew labour to the site, and that this helps explain how a hunter-gatherer society built it.
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Cited for the feasting evidence and the labour-mobilisation argument.
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Dietrich, O., Heun, M., Notroff, J., Schmidt, K., & Zarnkow, M. (2012). The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00047840
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Dietrich, Oliver et al.. “The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey.” Antiquity (2012). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00047840.