Sefertepe Structure Profile

Leveled bedrock and cut pits

Special building associated with skull niche reached bedrock floor, with neatly cut pits/holes.

At a glance

Special building associated with skull niche reached bedrock floor, with neatly cut pits/holes.

Special building associated with skull niche reached bedrock floor, with neatly cut pits/holes.
Leveled bedrock floor; cut pits/holes.
Locator status: partially located
Context type: feature
Primary source: Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season
Open: Pit count, dimensions, stratigraphic relationships, direct relation to skull deposits.

Research layer Sefertepe notes

Keep Sefertepe count layers separate: 22, 31, 8, 4, 7, and the isolated east-facing skull are not automatically the same claim.
Do not turn skull selection, human faces, beads, or animal imagery into one settled ritual story.
Use official, Karul et al. 2025, Türkiye Today, and Stone Mounds reporting as source layers with different maturity.
Treat field-note orientation and exact room claims as leads until publication-level plans confirm them.
Use rights-safe fallback diagrams unless official or third-party image permissions are cleared.
Pit count, dimensions, stratigraphic relationships, direct relation to skull deposits.
Türkiye Today 2025 skull-room expansion report
Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season
Official Taş Tepeler Sefertepe page
Karul et al. 2025 Sefertepe section
Türkiye Today / Anadolu Ajansı 2025 Sefertepe reports
Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season report
Pit count, dimensions, stratigraphic relationships, direct relation to skull deposits.
Which skull counts represent distinct deposits, later additions, or different count methods?
Which features belong to exact rooms, loci, phases, and publication figures?
How do the face platform, cut pits, and skull-room evidence relate spatially?
Which object images can be used publicly after rights review?
Site evidence notes
Use the structure-context matrix, mortuary matrix, object matrix, evidence locator pass, and image verification file for deeper review.
Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.

Evidence behind this evidence layer

Special building associated with skull niche reached bedrock floor, with neatly cut pits/holes.
Leveled bedrock floor; cut pits/holes.
Locator status: partially located
Context type: feature

Keep Sefertepe count layers separate: 22, 31, 8, 4, 7, and the isolated east-facing skull are not automatically the same claim.
Do not turn skull selection, human faces, beads, or animal imagery into one settled ritual story.
Use official, Karul et al. 2025, Türkiye Today, and Stone Mounds reporting as source layers with different maturity.
Treat field-note orientation and exact room claims as leads until publication-level plans confirm them.

Pit count, dimensions, stratigraphic relationships, direct relation to skull deposits.
Which skull counts represent distinct deposits, later additions, or different count methods?
Which features belong to exact rooms, loci, phases, and publication figures?
How do the face platform, cut pits, and skull-room evidence relate spatially?

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