Research by Dr. Martin Sweatman suggests animal shapes on Göbekli Tepe's Pillar 43 align with constellations from 10,950 BC (±250 years) — matching the Younger Dryas comet impact. Pillar 18 shows a comet using Sun, Moon and fox tail. 🔭✨
Pillar 43 shows 10,950 BC Younger Dryas comet date
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Key facts
- Dr. Martin Swatman analyzed animal shapes on Pillar 43 using astronomical software
- The animals align with constellation shapes from 10,950 BC give or take 100 years
- This date corresponds with the Younger Dryas comet impact
- Pillar 18 also shows comet-related symbols using Sun, Moon and fox tail as artistic representation of comet tail
- Pillar 2 represents the radiant path of the Taurid meteor stream
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Decoding Göbekli Tepe with archaeoastronomy: What does the fox ...researchgate.net
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Ancient stone pillars offer clues of comet strike that changed human ...phys.org
By matching low-relief carvings on some of the pillars at Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms we find compelling evidence that the famous 'Vulture ...
[PDF] DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPE WITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMYmaajournal.com
Low relief carvings of animals on pillars gen- erally represent constellations (asterisms). • Pillar 43 is a date stamp corresponding to. 10,950 ...
Origin of some of the ancient Greek constellations via analysis of ...martinsweatman.blogspot.com
Sweatman and Tsikritsis (2017a) (henceforth ST17a) already proposed that animal symbols on the broad side of Pillar 43 in Enclosure D at Göbekli ...
[PDF] Decoding Gobekli Tepe with archaeoastronomy - Accountpure.ed.ac.uk
Pillar 43 is a date stamp corresponding to. 10,950 BC ± 250 years. However, our interpretation of some of the more abstract symbols and connection to the YD ...
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