Small finds, big site
Göbekli Tepe is defined by its monumentality and its rich imagery — but it also produces small portable objects. In a note first published in Neo-Lithics and shared on the DAI's Tepe Telegrams, Oliver Dietrich and Klaus Schmidt described a figurine that didn't fit the known types: a new form to add to the site's catalogue of human and animal representations.
Why the small things matter
Figurines are handled, carried, and sometimes deliberately deposited — a different register from the fixed pillars. Each new type widens the range of how these people represented themselves and their world, and reminds us that Göbekli Tepe was a place of intimate objects as well as giant stones.