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Documenta Praehistorica, 2022 The monumental twin steles of Göbekli Tepe are one in a long series of isomorphic compositions in Neolithic symbolism. Seemingly tracing back to the Palaeolithic, symmetry likely played a fundamental role for prehistoric societies.
Cédric Bodet
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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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Early Neolithic imagery in flux
Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Stone is often regarded as the ideal medium for the long-term preservation of knowledge, as it is resistant to change. Early to middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has repeatedly been treated as a prime example for such ...
Oliver Dietrich, Julia Wagner
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2020 The most famous Pre-pottery Neolithic site of Anatolia, Göbekli Tepe, since 1994 has been the subject of intensive studies due to its peculiar characteristics, linked to the presence of both circular buildings and the so-called anthropomorphic T-shaped ...
Christopher Claudio Caletti
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A short note on a new figurine type from Göbekli Tepe [PDF]
, 2017 A short note on a 2012 find from Göbekli Tepe - a seated figurine with an animal on its ...
Klaus Schmidt, Oliver Dietrich
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A Decorated Bone ‘Spatula’ from Göbekli Tepe. On the Pitfalls of Iconographic Interpretations of Early Neolithic Art [PDF]
, 2017 In 2011 a special object was discovered at Göbekli Tepe in one of the excavation trenches in the tell´s northwestern depression. The artefact was described preliminarily as a ‘spatula’ made from a rib bone.
Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich
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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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Hunter into prey : trying to make sense of the »Media Revolution« at Göbekli Tepe [PDF]
, 2017 The essay tries to make sense of the iconography and monumentalism of Göbekli Tepe by way of a comparison with recent ›hunting ideologies‹ in forager situations of abundance or ›super-abundance‹.
Schüttpelz, Erhard
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Studia Praehistorica, 2021 This paper is devoted to the issues of constructing, using and perceiving human dwellings among the communities of Southwestern Asia in the transition to the Neolithic. The case study is based on the data from Northern Mesopotamia.
Tatiana Kornienko
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The adoption of cattle pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula: A reappraisal
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 168-177, May 2020., 2020 Abstract The translocation of livestock into the Arabian Peninsula was underway by the sixth millennium BC. It remains unclear, however, whether nascent pastoralism in Arabia focused on specialised cattle herding, intensive caprine husbandry, or more extensive forms of sheep, goat and cattle management.
Cheryl A. Makarewicz
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