Gürcütepe Structure Profile
Gürcütepe III Domestic And Craft Area
Gürcütepe's public value is settlement life: houses, hearths, middens, craft areas, figurines, food evidence, and the shift toward later village forms.
At a glance
- Site
- Gürcütepe
- Structure
- Gürcütepe III Domestic And Craft Area
- Known For
- Domestic, craft, food, and figurine context
What you're looking at
Current records describe stone-founded buildings, rectangular houses, open spaces, hearths, middens, firing pits, atelier areas, figurines, bracelets, beads, vessels, axes, mortars, pestles, palettes, and animal remains.
Why it matters
- Later Neolithic settlement near Şanlıurfa and the Harran Plain edge.
- Architecture is more domestic and craft-oriented than monumental.
- Reported areas include houses, hearths, middens, firing pits, and ateliers.
- Human and animal figurines are important, but must be separated from faunal remains.
- Food and animal evidence includes sheep/goat, pig, cattle, gazelle, fox, deer, and fallow deer in current notes.
What to notice first
- Domestic buildings
- Hearths and middens
- Workshop or atelier areas
- Figurines
- Craft tools
- Animal and food evidence
Research layer source notes
- Keep confirmed public facts separate from research leads and expected future excavation detail.
- Do not promote structure, object, ritual, or phase claims before plans, loci, dates, or catalog records support them.
- Use rights-safe fallback imagery unless image rights and credit wording are clear.
- This page is a public reference layer, not the final excavation report.
- Official Taş Tepeler / public project material
- Stone Mounds 2025 Gürcütepe note
- Evidence note
- Evidence note
- Site profile and evidence notes
- Which objects belong to which structures and phases?
- How should animal figurines be separated from animal bones?
- How does Gürcütepe compare with Çayönü, Nevalı Çori, and later village sites?
- Which details are secure physical observations, and which are reporting shorthand?
- Which public images can be used after rights review?
- What future publication will separate structure, object, phase, and date details?
- Treat this as a public-safe bridge between the site profile and deeper evidence review.
- Add deeper pages only when evidence records become strong enough to support them.
- Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.
Source links references
- Official Taş Tepeler / public project material
- Stone Mounds 2025 Gürcütepe note
- Evidence note
- Evidence note