{"id":3751,"date":"2017-01-05T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tepetelegrams.wordpress.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:28:02","slug":"enclosure-a-a-short-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2017\/01\/05\/enclosure-a-a-short-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Enclosure A, a short overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the first field season<\/a> at G\u00f6bekli Tepe in 1995 one of the landowners had started to clear his field in the southeastern depression of stones that hindered ploughing. He dug out the heads of two large T-shaped pillars and had already started to smash one pillar with a sledgehammer. Fortunately he could be persuaded to stop, and in the 1996 work started in this area. What came to light here was the first of the monumental buildings of G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s older layer (Layer III<\/a>), later called Enclosure A.<\/p>\n

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Enclosure A in 1997 (Photo: M. Morsch, copyright DAI).<\/p><\/div>\n

The ground plan of Enclosure A appears more rectangular than round. First radiocarbon data<\/a> suggest that it may be a little younger than other Enclosures, C and D, and maybe the rectangular shape already could indicate the transition to the later, rectangular, Layer II building type. The existence of different outer walls may as well hint at a longer building history and possible alteration over toime. However, Enclosure A is still not entirely excavated, so any description must remain preliminary as of yet.<\/p>\n\n\t\t