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Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 We analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Anatolia (10th / 9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in archaeological discourse.
Laura Dietrich +7 more
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Göbekli Tepe: A Brief Description of the Environmental Development in the Surroundings of the UNESCO World Heritage Site [PDF]
Land, 2019 This contribution provides a first characterization of the environmental development for the surroundings of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Göbekli Tepe.
Daniel Knitter +4 more
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How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality
Mind &Language, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 751-759, September 2022., 2022 Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene social contract provides an exceptionally well‐informed and credible narrative explanation of the origins of inequality and hierarchy. In this essay review, we reflect on the role of rational choice theory in Sterelny's project, before turning to Sterelny's reasons for doubting the importance of cultural group ...
Jonathan Birch, Andrew Buskell
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COMPOSITE HUMAN‐ANIMAL FIGURES IN EARLY URBAN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: SHAMANS OR IMAGES OF RESISTANCE?
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 230-251, August 2022., 2022 Summary Urban growth in northern Mesopotamia in the early fourth millennium BC was accompanied by an increase in clay container sealings, reflecting the intensified movement and management of resources and manufactured items. The diverse imagery impressed into these sealings includes a human‐ibex grasping a pair of snakes, a bird‐human, and other ...
Augusta McMahon
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 1030-1045, November/December 2021., 2021 Abstract Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84–10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least family level. Sixty‐three different bird taxa are present from 18 families, representing a mix of resident and migrant birds, based on present‐day ecology.
Judith White +5 more
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 430-442, February 2021., 2021 Geomorphodynamic activity in the surroundings of the Early Neolithic hilltop site Göbekli Tepe is significantly intensified between ca. 7.4–7.0 and 5.8–3.3 ka BP, reflecting demographic, sociocultural, and climatic variations. The studied landscape compartments form a sediment cascade whose different depositional environments vary with respect to their
Moritz Nykamp +6 more
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, 2023 A few kilometres to the northeast of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey the tell of Göbekli Tepe is situated. The immense ruin hill formed by the debris of monumental constructions dating back into the 10th and 9th millennium BC (the Pre-Pottery Neolithic)
Schmidt, Klaus +3 more
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A new Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Southeastern Turkey: Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2017 Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut), located 30km west of Şanlıurfa, was discovered during surface surveys conducted in 2013. Ayanlar Höyük dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period, is a large- scale mound like Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, covering an overall ...
Bahattin Celik
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Typology of the handstones from Göbekli Tepe.
, 2019 Typology of the handstones from Göbekli Tepe.
Brigitta Schütt (6655247) +7 more
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Studying the Use of Earth in Early Architecture of Southwest and Central Asia
Open Archaeology, 2023 Using case studies from Aşıklı Höyük, Çatalhöyük, Boncuklu Tarla, Göbekli Tepe (all Turkey), and Monjukli Depe (southern Turkmenistan), this study presents a framework for in-depth research on prehistoric earthen architecture in southwestern and central ...
Uzdurum Melis +3 more
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