Göbekli Tepe 8
Building FA smaller oval building on the western slope of Göbekli Tepe. Its pillars are unusually informative: several carry arms, hands and V-shaped necklaces,…Enclosure AEnclosure A is not just another round stone building. It seems to sit near a change in architectural form: still part of Göbekli Tepe's older…
Enclosure BEnclosure B is one of Göbekli Tepe's major round buildings. It has two central pillars, Pillars 9 and 10, both marked by fox imagery. Between them,…
Enclosure CBuilding C is one of Göbekli Tepe's major circular buildings. It is especially important for boar imagery, Pillar 12, Pillar 27, the Pillar 35 area,…
Enclosure DEnclosure D is the space most people picture when they imagine Göbekli Tepe: a monumental stone setting with tall central pillars, carved animals, and…Enclosure E / Rock TempleEnclosure E is different from the famous standing-pillar buildings because its strongest preserved evidence is cut into the bedrock itself. Two rock…Enclosure HEnclosure H shows that Göbekli Tepe's large T-pillar buildings continued beyond the famous main excavation area. Its clearest public anchor is Pillar…Lion Pillars BuildingThe Lion Pillars Building helps show that Göbekli Tepe was not only made of huge round enclosures. It belongs to the younger Layer II world of smaller…
Enclosure BEnclosure B is one of Göbekli Tepe's major round buildings. It has two central pillars, Pillars 9 and 10, both marked by fox imagery. Between them,…Enclosure CBuilding C is one of Göbekli Tepe's major circular buildings. It is especially important for boar imagery, Pillar 12, Pillar 27, the Pillar 35 area,…Enclosure DEnclosure D is the space most people picture when they imagine Göbekli Tepe: a monumental stone setting with tall central pillars, carved animals, and…Enclosure E / Rock TempleEnclosure E is different from the famous standing-pillar buildings because its strongest preserved evidence is cut into the bedrock itself. Two rock…Enclosure HEnclosure H shows that Göbekli Tepe's large T-pillar buildings continued beyond the famous main excavation area. Its clearest public anchor is Pillar…Lion Pillars BuildingThe Lion Pillars Building helps show that Göbekli Tepe was not only made of huge round enclosures. It belongs to the younger Layer II world of smaller…Karahan Tepe 9
Structure AAStructure AA is a shallow bedrock-cut room at Karahan Tepe with a long west bench, steps, small pits, a snake engraving, a fox engraving, a niche, and…
Structure AB — the rock-cut pillar chamberKarahan Tepe's signature space: a chamber cut down into the living bedrock, where a cluster of phallus-like pillars rises from the floor and a human…Structure ACStructure AC is a small covered bedrock structure about 20 m northeast of the AA/AB/AD complex. In Karul 2021, its boundary was defined, but its inner…Structure ADStructure AD is the large central communal building at Karahan Tepe, with a 23 m internal diameter, two-step benches, wall pillars, paired central…Structure AOStructure AO is reported as a small room around Structure AD, with a stone-paved floor, grinding-related stones, a phallic-shaped grinding tool, and a…Structure AZStructure AZ is reported as a domestic building on Karahan Tepe's Western Terrace, with stone paving, plastered benches, grinding stones, T-shaped…
Structure BD — the Western Terrace buildingA large rectangular building on Karahan Tepe's western terrace, reported with continuous benches and T-shaped pillars, and best known as the ritual…Structure BFA reported small special-purpose building beside Structure AD at Karahan Tepe, noted for stone vessels, animal figurines and selected animal remains —…
Structure BHA reported well-preserved rectilinear building near Structure BD at Karahan Tepe, with high walls, benches and a north-wall stone vessel — but one for…Sayburç 9
Northern communal / relief-bearing buildingThe round, bedrock-cut communal building in Sayburç's northern area whose interior bench carries the five-figure relief argued to be the earliest known…Secondary burial and body-processing contextsSayburç's cautiously reported mortuary evidence — clusters of human remains in the southern domestic area showing secondary treatment, selected bones…Southern residential buildingsThe southern area contains residential buildings with bedrock floors, benches, niches, hearths, storage or food-preparation areas, grinding tools, and…Stitched-mouth figure contextA 2025 report highlights a human figure interpreted as a deceased person with a stitched mouth, but its exact context still needs source confirmation.Structure ABStructure AB lies east of the special building and was built directly on bedrock, but it is heavily damaged.
Structure BBA fully excavated domestic building in Sayburç's southern residential area, notable for a central T-pillar carved with human features inside an…Structure CBA partially excavated special building in Sayburç's southern area, reported with seven T-shaped pillars set in front of its walls and a further pillar…Structure CDA thinly exposed structure next to Structure CB in Sayburç's southern area — recorded as a probable special building but not yet excavated enough to…Structure DAA partially excavated special building in Sayburç's southern area, encircled by dwellings, with a double-step bench and at least one toppled central…Sefertepe 7
10-pillar setOfficial page records 10 pillars: three T-shaped and seven quadrangular.Leveled bedrock and cut pitsSpecial building associated with skull niche reached bedrock floor, with neatly cut pits/holes.Northern burials — skulls with skeletal remainsA few metres north of Sefertepe's skull room, excavators report seven individuals whose skulls were still attached to their skeletons — a whole-body…
Paired human face platformTwo human face reliefs associated with a platform made from four limestone blocks.Quadrangular building complexInterconnected quadrangular/rectangular stone-walled PPNB structures forming a building complex.Small finds and symbolic objectsBeads are the most common find at Sefertepe, and the site's small finds — a double-faced bead, carved figurines, worked stone and tools — carry much of…The Sefertepe skull roomA chamber at Sefertepe in which excavators have reported human skulls and skull fragments. The counts published in different reports do not agree with…
Paired human face platformTwo human face reliefs associated with a platform made from four limestone blocks.Quadrangular building complexInterconnected quadrangular/rectangular stone-walled PPNB structures forming a building complex.Small finds and symbolic objectsBeads are the most common find at Sefertepe, and the site's small finds — a double-faced bead, carved figurines, worked stone and tools — carry much of…The Sefertepe skull roomA chamber at Sefertepe in which excavators have reported human skulls and skull fragments. The counts published in different reports do not agree with…Çakmaktepe 5
Mortars and food-work evidenceConical pits cut into the bedrock at Çakmaktepe, interpreted as mortars, together with grinding tools — the everyday food technology of a settling…Southern Excavation Area Domestic StructuresThe Southern Excavation Area keeps Çakmaktepe from becoming only an animal-head story. It shows planned domestic settlement, house-building, floor…Special Building 15A special-purpose building at Çakmaktepe whose walls held a deposit of deliberately burnt animal heads — the context that produced the site's…The circular special / communal buildingA large single-room circular building at Çakmaktepe whose floor was cut down into the bedrock, then carefully backfilled with placed stones when it…The earlier interior animal-head contextA reported earlier context at Çakmaktepe in which burnt wild cattle, sheep and equid heads were placed inside a special building along the bases of its…
Harbetsuvan 2
Subterranean Room In Area D6The Area D6 room keeps Harbetsuvan's architecture from being only a surface-level pillar story; it anchors the site's deeper room and feature questions.The rectangular paired-pillar structureA rectangular stone building at Harbetsuvan Tepesi, at least one of them fitted with a pair of stone pillars at its centre — the excavated context that…
