Türkiye has announced a wave of new Neolithic finds from the Taş Tepeler sites around Şanlıurfa, dating back about 12,000 years. Highlights include a human statue deliberately embedded in a wall at Göbeklitepe, a striking “stitched-mouth” human figure from Sayburc that seems to depict a dead person, and at Sefertepe two carved human faces plus a rare double-faced bead in black serpentinite. Together with ongoing work at Karahantepe and other sites, these discoveries show a dense landscape of set