The reference library

1. Clare, L. (2020). Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. A brief summary of research at a new World Heritage Site (2015–2019). e-Forschungsberichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2020(2): 81–88.
2. Dietrich, O., Heun, M., Notroff, J., Schmidt, K. & Zarnkow, M. (2012). The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey. Antiquity 86(333): 674–695.
3. German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul Department (2023). Life-size statue of a wild boar found in Special Building D of Göbekli Tepe (press release, 8 Oct 2023). DAI Newsroom. Announcement; a formal excavation publication is pending.
4. Gresky, J., Haelm, J. & Clare, L. (2017). Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult. Science Advances 3(6): e1700564. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700564
5. Haklay, G. & Gopher, A. (2020). Geometry and Architectural Planning at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(2): 343–357.
6. Hauptmann, H. (1993). Ein Kultgebäude in Nevalı Çori. In M. Frangipane et al. (eds), Between the Rivers and Over the Mountains: 37–69. Rome: Università di Roma «La Sapienza». The first report of a T-pillar cult building — the key precedent for Göbekli Tepe.
7. Karul, N. (2021). Buried Buildings at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Karahantepe. Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi 82: 19–29.
8. Notroff, J., Dietrich, O. & Schmidt, K. (2014). Building Monuments, Creating Communities. Early monumental architecture at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe. In J.F. Osborne (ed.), Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology: 83–105. Albany: SUNY Press.
9. Özdoğan, E. (2022). The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic. Antiquity 96(390): 1599–1605. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.125
10. Peters, J. & Schmidt, K. (2004). Animals in the symbolic world of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment. Anthropozoologica 39(1): 179–218.
11. Schmidt, K. (2012). Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia. Berlin: ex oriente. The foundational monograph by the site's first excavator.
12. The Tepe Telegrams (official research blog of the Göbekli Tepe Project, DAI). The Tepe Telegrams. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. link Accessible, authoritative running commentary from the excavation team.
13. UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2018). Göbekli Tepe (inscription on the World Heritage List). UNESCO. link

A note on honesty: where a claim rests on a press announcement rather than a peer-reviewed publication (for example the 2023 painted boar), we say so on the page. Active excavation means some of this will be revised — that is how the field works.