MegalithFringe site
Harbetsuvan Tepesi
DatedEst. 4000 BCE–600 CE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Harbetsuvan Tepesi is an archaeological site in the Eyyübiye district of Şanlıurfa province, Turkey. Excavations have found T-shaped structures dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), of the kind seen in layers III and II of Göbeklitepe.
First assessments indicate that the site was settled at least 11,000 years before the present.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Harbetsuvan Tepesi
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The site was first identified in 2014 during a surface survey. Archaeological excavations began in 2017 together with the Şanlıurfa Museum.
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Besides architectural remains, the excavations have uncovered fragments of a phallic statue, a stele with relief of an arm and fingers, Byblos points, flat axes, an obsidian arrowhead and basalt pestles.
Göbekli Tepe in south-eastern Turkey is among the oldest monumental sites known, inhabited from about 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
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- Wikipedia (Turkish): Harbetsuvan TepesiCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (Turkish): Harbetsuvan TepesiCC BY-SA 4.0
Göbekli Tepe in south-eastern Turkey is among the oldest monumental sites known, inhabited from about 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is known for large circular structures containing large stone pillars, many of them T-shaped. The Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, are a group of Neolithic sites near Urfa that date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, about 10,000 to 7000 BCE.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Göbekli Tepe and the Pre-Pottery enclosures
Göbekli Tepe ("Potbelly Hill") in south-eastern Turkey is among the oldest monumental sites known. The settlement was inhabited from about 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is known for large circular structures that contain large stone pillars, among the world's oldest known megaliths. Many of the pillars are T-shaped and decorated with anthropomorphic details, clothing and sculpted reliefs of wild animals, giving archaeologists insight into prehistoric religion and iconography. The hill is a tell 15 metres high and 8 hectares in area, covered with ancient domestic structures, quarries and stone-cut cisterns.
Göbekli Tepe is not alone. The Taş Tepeler, "Stone Mounds", are a group of Neolithic sites near Urfa that date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, about 10,000 to 7000 BCE, during the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to settled farming communities. Their people had not yet developed herding or well-developed agriculture, and relied on hunting and selective harvesting of wild cereal grasses; the domestication of animals seems to have begun within the broad region of the Taş Tepeler culture. Karahan Tepe, about 46 kilometres east of Göbekli Tepe and regarded as its sister site, has T-shaped steles as well; it may be the earliest known human village, dated to between 10,000 and 9500 BCE, and was discovered in 1997 by Bahattin Çelik.
Their purpose is debated. When visiting, look at the T-shaped pillars and the animals carved on them.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Göbekli Tepe, Wikipedia: Karahan Tepe, Wikipedia: Taş Tepeler, Wikipedia: Pre-Pottery Neolithic · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000 BCE–600 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypological estimate, not a date for this site: a other in the Near East is normally dated between 4000 BCE and 600 CE (Atlas typological table).Source for this date
Measured facts
- Type
- Other / unclassifiedSource: Type
- Country
- TurkeySource: Country
Where it stands
Turkey
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 37°02′55″ N, 39°15′09″ EFor a GPS or map app: 37.04870, 39.25250
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q108784502wikidata.org
- 02Fringe claim sourceen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Harbetsuvan Tepesi" (Turkish), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (Turkish): Harbetsuvan TepesiCC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q108784502CC0
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0