Taş Tepeler Site Profile
Harbetsuvan
Harbetsuvan is a smaller Taş Tepeler hill site known for T-pillar evidence, human imagery, and its place in the wider Şanlıurfa landscape.
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Overview
- Period
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic
- Location
- Tek Tek limestone hills, southeast of Şanlıurfa
- Main Evidence
- T-pillar context, Seated male sculpture, Small hill setting
Timeline
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic
- Harbetsuvan matters because it is a smaller Taş Tepeler hill site with T-pillar context, rectangular stone buildings, and a seated male sculpture. It should be read first as its own place, then compared outward to the wider Taş Tepeler horizon.
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Harbetsuvan matters because it is a smaller Taş Tepeler hill site with T-pillar context, rectangular stone buildings, and a seated male sculpture. It should be read first as its own place, then compared outward to the wider Taş Tepeler horizon.
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Discoveries
- Rectangular stone buildings with paired or central pillar arrangements.
- A seated male sculpture that anchors the site's human-figure layer.
- Flint, obsidian, ground stone, incised stone objects, stone beads, bone tools, and faunal remains.
- Geophysical evidence suggesting additional buried structures and a possible large round feature.
Structures
- Harbetsuvan is a compact smaller-site profile in the Tek Tek hills.
- Its value is scale: it tests how T-pillar and human-image traditions appear outside the largest centers.
- The paired-pillar structure and Area D6 room should stay distinct until full plans are public.
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