MegalithFringe site
Taşlı Tepe
DatedEst. 4000 BCE–600 CE
No licensed photograph yetWe have no photograph we may publish for this site, so the interpretive 3D view leads instead.
Overview
About this site
Overview
Taşlı Tepe is a mountain in Batman province, in the east of Turkey, at 917 metres above sea level. It lies 800 km east of Ankara. The catalogue lists it as an unclassified site, with a broad estimated date range of 4000 BCE to 600 CE.
Read on Wikipedia1 min readCC BY-SA 4.0
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
Taşlı Tepe
The mean annual temperature is 19 °C, with July the warmest month at 36 °C and January the coldest at 2 °C.
SettingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (ceb): Taşlı Tepe (bukid)CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (ceb): Taşlı Tepe (bukid)CC BY-SA 4.0
The land around Taşlı Tepe is mostly hilly but flat to the west. The highest point in the surrounding area rises to 993 metres, 1.0 km to the north-west. The area has about 129 inhabitants per square kilometre, a relatively dense population, and the nearest larger town is Beşiri, 12.0 km to the north-west. The surroundings are mostly covered with forest.
The climate is Mediterranean. The mean annual temperature is 19 °C, with July the warmest month at 36 °C and January the coldest at 2 °C. Mean annual precipitation is 733 millimetres. December is the wettest month, with 122 millimetres, and August the driest, with 2 millimetres.
DatingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (ceb): Taşlı Tepe (bukid)CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (ceb): Taşlı Tepe (bukid)CC BY-SA 4.0
No archaeological remains are described for this mountain in the available record. The date range of 4000 BCE to 600 CE given in the catalogue is a typological estimate and is very broad. The coordinates are 37.8314, 41.3719.
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
From the article
Dated moments in the story
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°49′53″ N, 41°22′19″ EFor a GPS or map app: 37.83139, 41.37194
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.
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı (Gercüş)
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)1 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)2 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Girhabeş Tumulus700–50 BCE
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Sağır Kadın Harabeleri Kaya Mezarı
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat)
Boncuklu Tarla9050–8950 BCE- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı, Sason
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q31546518wikidata.org
- 02Fringe claim sourceen.wikipedia.org
Report a correctionWrong date, name, photograph or source? Tell us and it will be put right.
Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı (Gercüş)30 km S
- 1 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)42 km N
- 2 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)42 km N
- Girhabeş Tumulus42 km W
- Sağır Kadın Harabeleri Kaya Mezarı45 km SE
- Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat)47 km S
- Boncuklu Tarla53 km SE
- Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı, Sason54 km N
- Kaya Mezarları (Kocaköy)92 km NW
- Mavan Kaya Mezarı105 km SW
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Taşlı Tepe (bukid)" (ceb), 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 (ceb): Taşlı Tepe (bukid)CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q31546518CC0
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0