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12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

(archaeologymag.com)

Was subfloor burial common in Neolithic?
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Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.
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The phrase is "jump the gun" or "jumped the gun" as in a fault start in a race started with a gun.
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That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
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