New Content about Göbekli Tepe
You haven’t been hearing much from us lately. The reason was the catastrophic earthquake and the heavy rainfall event shortly afterwards in Şanlıurfa this year, which cuased immense suffering in […]
Neolithic
Over twenty-five years of research at Göbekli Tepe!
The year 2020 marked a quarter of a century since the beginning of archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, this anniversary was somewhat forgotten. Reason enough […]
From Boyne to Brodgar – Sacral landscapes and monuments in Ireland and on the island of Rousay (Orkney Islands/Scotland)
Campaign 2019 In May and July this year, researchers of the Unit for Survey and Excavation Methodology carried out fieldwork on the Orkney island of Rousay (north Scotland) and in […]
New Publication: „Ritual Practices and Conflict Mitigation at Early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe“
Again the Göbekli Tepe research project did have the great pleasure contributing to another volume edited by Ian Hodder (Stanford University, California) which has been been recently published: „Violence and […]
On Air: National Geographic’s „Riddle of the Stone Age Giants“
A new National Geographic Channel [external link] documentary movie about current state of research and excavations at Göbekli Tepe, filmed last year and titled „Riddle of the Stone Age Giants“ […]
„What is so special about Neolithic special buildings?“ Session upcoming at EAA´s Annual Meeting in Maastricht
‘Special buildings‘ has become an often-used label in Near Eastern Archaeology for constructions deviating in architecture, elaborate inner fittings, finds and often also treatment after the end of use (intentional […]
Beginning social complexity during the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: a view from Göbekli Tepe
This is the English version of a text published by Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff in the latest issue of Aktüel Arkeoloji [external link]. Our knowledge of the early Neolithic […]
Enclosure A, a short overview
During the first field season at Göbekli Tepe in 1995 one of the landowners had started to clear his field in the southeastern depression of stones that hindered ploughing. He […]
Emblematic signs? On the iconography of animals at Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe was once called „a Stone Age zoo“ by its late discoverer Klaus Schmidt. This judgement is certainly appropriate, as the range of animals depicted is impressive. Bears, boars, […]
Göbekli Tepe – The first 20 Years of Research
Part 1: A (Re-) Discovery (1994-1996) Göbekli Tepe was for the first time recognized as an archaeological site during a large-scale survey project conducted by the Universities of Istanbul and […]
Who built Göbekli Tepe?
Well, the short answer would be: Stone Age people with Stone Age tools. Nothing more needed, no aliens, no giants, as you can read here. For an answer to the […]
The current distribution of sites with T-shaped pillars
The characteristic element of Göbekli Tepe´s architecture are the T-shaped pillars. In the older Layer III (10th millenium BC) the monolithic pillars weigh tons and reach heights between 4 m […]
Losing your head at Göbekli Tepe
Just back from this year´s ICAANE in Vienna, where a very inspiring workshop on the “Iconography and Symbolic Meaning of the Human in Near Eastern Prehistory” was organized by Jörg […]
