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…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 ABStructure AB is a bedrock-cut chamber at Karahan Tepe with a small descent opening, stairs, a carved human head, phallic pillars, a serpentine channel,…
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 BDStructure BD is reported as a large rectangular Western Terrace building with continuous benches, twelve T-shaped pillars, four collapsed central…Structure BFStructure BF is a reported small public or special building beside Structure AD, known for T-shaped pillars, stone vessels and plates, animal…
Structure BHStructure BH is reported as a well-preserved rectilinear building beside BD, with high walls, two-tier benches, broken T-shaped pillars, burning…Sayburç 9
Northern communal / relief-bearing buildingThis 11 m bedrock-carved communal building contains the famous Sayburç bench relief.
Secondary burial and body-processing contextsSayburç has reported secondary burial and body-treatment evidence involving skulls, long bones, burning, and building contexts.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 BBStructure BB is a fully excavated domestic building with a bedrock floor, bench, niche, hearth, central T-pillar with human features, and grinding…Structure CBStructure CB is reported as a special building with seven T-shaped pillars in front of the walls and a central T-pillar.Structure CDStructure CD is an adjacent special-building record with limited exposed detail and features similar to CB.Structure DAStructure DA is a special building with a double-step bench and at least one destroyed central T-pillar lying on the floor.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 skulls with skeletal remainsA context north of the skull room where seven skulls were found with remaining skeletal elements.
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 ObjectsSefertepe's small finds include beads, a double-faced bead, a worked limestone object with circles, a boar image on a grinding stone, a leopard…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
Circular Special / Communal BuildingThe circular special or communal building is a major Çakmaktepe public-building anchor: a roughly 16 m single-room circular building with a bedrock-cut…Earlier Interior Animal-Head ContextThis reported earlier Çakmaktepe context keeps the animal-head evidence separated: burnt wild cattle, sheep, and equid heads were reported inside a…Mortars And Food-Work EvidenceÇakmaktepe's mortars and food-work evidence show that the site was not only a place of dramatic deposits. It was also a settlement where grinding,…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 Enclosure 15Special Building 15 is the strongest public structure anchor at Çakmaktepe. It is linked with a 2025 exterior deposit of more than 30 burnt gazelle…Harbetsuvan 2
Rectangular Paired-Pillar StructureHarbetsuvan's rectangular paired-pillar structure shows that T-pillar architecture was not limited to the largest Taş Tepeler centers.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.
