Taş Tepeler Site Profile

Sefertepe

Sefertepe is a Taş Tepeler site known for skull-room evidence, human-face imagery, beads, and early Neolithic buildings.

Overview

Period: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Location: East of Şanlıurfa
Main Evidence: Skull room, Paired human-face platform, Quadrangular building group

Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Sefertepe is a Taş Tepeler site known for skull-room evidence, human-face imagery, beads, and early Neolithic buildings.

Sefertepe is a Taş Tepeler site known for skull-room evidence, human-face imagery, beads, and early Neolithic buildings.

A skull-room context with several separate reported count layers that should not be merged without source control.
Interconnected quadrangular or rectangular stone buildings with benches, niches, platforms, floors, pillars, and special-use areas.
A reported paired human-face platform, with carved faces associated with a limestone-block setting.
A strong small-find layer including beads, a double-faced anthropomorphic bead, a worked limestone object with 13 circles, a boar image on a grinding stone, and a leopard figurine.
Leveled bedrock and cut pits in a special-building context linked to the skull-room reporting.

The best public doorway into Sefertepe is the quadrangular building complex: rooms and spaces are still being separated, but the architectural pattern is already clear.
The 10-pillar set should be read as a separate architecture lane: three T-shaped pillars and seven quadrangular pillars are reported.
The skull room and nearby skeletal contexts should be kept as distinct mortuary contexts until plans and deposit publications clarify their relationship.
The human-face platform and cut-pit special building are high-value contexts, but their exact spatial relationship to the skull room remains open.

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