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Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] ' Potbelly Hill '; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey, on the southern border of Southeastern Anatolia. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, [5] during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
In 1995, he became the leader of the excavations at Gürcütepe and Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey. Schmidt purchased a house in nearby Urfa , which became his base of operations. [ 1 ] His team of archaeologists typically excavated the site of Göbekli Tepe for two months in the spring and two months in the fall.
Reliefs of animals, Göbekli Tepe Layer III (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), c. 9000 BCE. PPNA archaeological sites are much larger than those of the preceding Natufian hunter-gatherer culture, and contain traces of communal structures, such as the famous Tower of Jericho.
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Soil samples from atop the highest peaks in Turkey reveal human activity and marine ...
The Taş Tepeler (Turkish, literally 'Stone Mounds') is an upland area in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, near the city of Şanlıurfa.. The area has a number of significant prehistoric archaeological sites, [1] including twelve sites with the characteristic T-shaped obelisks well known from Göbekli Tepe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori, Şanlıurfa ...
Articles relating to Göbekli Tepe and its depictions. It is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Head of statue, Jericho, from c. 9000 years ago.Displayed at the Rockefeller Archeological Museum in Jerusalem.. Cultural tendencies of this period differ from that of the earlier Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), in that people living during this phase began to depend more heavily upon domesticated animals to supplement their earlier mixed agrarian and hunter-gatherer diet.
Edward Bruce (Ted) Banning is a Canadian archaeologist and professor at the University of Toronto. [1] He was born in Montreal in 1955 but has lived in Toronto for most of his life.