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Overview
- Period
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic
- Location
- Near Şanlıurfa / Harran Plain edge
- Main Evidence
- Rectangular houses, Craft and figurines, Food and animal evidence
Timeline
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic
- Gürcütepe matters because it is a later settlement for studying houses, hearths, craft, figurines, food, and the shift from special hill sites toward village life. It should be read first as its own place, then compared outward to the wider Taş Tepeler horizon.
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Gürcütepe matters because it is a later settlement for studying houses, hearths, craft, figurines, food, and the shift from special hill sites toward village life. It should be read first as its own place, then compared outward to the wider Taş Tepeler horizon.
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Discoveries
- Stone-founded buildings, rectangular houses, open spaces, hearths, middens, firing pits, and atelier areas.
- Figurines, bracelets, beads, vessels, axes, mortars, pestles, palettes, flaked discs, weights, phallic objects, and flaked stone.
- Animal and food evidence led by sheep/goat, pig, cattle, and smaller wild-animal components.
Structures
- Gürcütepe should lead with settlement life rather than monumental spectacle.
- The main public route is the Gürcütepe III domestic and craft area.
- Houses, craft, food, and animal evidence should stay separate enough for users to understand daily life.
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