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Lee Clare

A person with short, wavy hair and glasses is wearing a dark jacket with a brown collar and a gray scarf, set against a neutral background.

German archaeologist; scientific coordinator of the Göbekli Tepe excavations for the German Archaeological Institute, having taken over after Klaus Schmidt's death in 2014. Clare's team has revised several of Schmidt's signature claims — including the deliberate burial of the enclosures and the supposed absence of domestic settlement — and now treats the site as part of a populated Neolithic landscape rather than an isolated cult centre lost in the wilderness.

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