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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.
Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient civilization. ... Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old ...
This is not far from other known Pre-Pottery Neolithic A sites around Urfa: Göbekli Tepe (about 10 kilometers), Gürcütepe. [1] It is reported that it was discovered in 1993 on Yeni Yol street in Balıklıgöl, at the same location where a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site was investigated from 1997. [5] The statue is nearly 1.90 meters tall. [6]
Göbekli Tepe animal sculpture, c. 9000 BCE. With more sites becoming known, archaeologists have defined a number of regional variants of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: (Aswadian) in the Damascus Basin, defined by finds from Tell Aswad IA; typical: bipolar cores, big sickle blades, Aswad points.
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.
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.
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