A tale of snakes and birds: Göbekli Tepe, Pillar 56.
Since we get lots of questions regarding Göbekli Tepe’s pillars and their depictions, we will try to post short descriptions here. This time it’s Pillar 56 in Enclosure H. Pillar 56 […]
Year: 2016
Göbekli Tepe in images
Photography certainly is an important tool for documentation in archaeology. For me personally, it is also a hobby (you can find me on Flickr here: external link). Going through the […]
The ‚Urfa Man‘
This short post is about the ‚Urfa Man‘. Let’s start with an answer to a very common question: no, he is not from Göbekli Tepe. He was found during construction […]
Of animals and a headless man. Göbekli Tepe, Pillar 43
Addressing an earlier question from the comments, here is some more information on one of the most impressive pillars from Göbekli Tepe, Pillar 43 in Enclosure D. Updated 05/03/17 with […]
Current state of research at Göbekli Tepe – interviewed by arkeofili.com
Arkeofili [external link], a Turkish online magazine and portal dedicated to archaeological news and reports on archaeological sites and discoveries in Turkey and the world approached DAI’s Göbekli Tepe research staff […]
Building big. Incentives for cooperative action of hunter-gatherers at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe
Back in the office from a very pleasant and thought-provoking EAA Annual Meeting in Vilnius, where an intriguing session [external link] on the concept of social cohesion in archaeology was […]
Emblematic signs? On the iconography of animals at Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe was once called „a Stone Age zoo“ by its late discoverer Klaus Schmidt. This judgement is certainly appropriate, as the range of animals depicted is impressive. Bears, boars, […]
„Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library“
July 29th was this year’s “Day of Archaeology” [external link] – a project aiming to “… provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world.” Following […]
„Building big. Incentives for cooperative action of hunter-gatherers at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe“. EAA Annual Meeting 2016
Upcoming: Between 31st August and 4th September, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologistzs will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Göbekli Tepe project will participate in […]
Boars in Göbekli Tepe´s Enclosure C: just a story of hunters and prey?
Depictions and sculptures of boars predominate the imagery of Enclosure C. Pillar 12 for example has a very nice depiction of a boar with pronounced canine teeth. Next to this […]
How old is it? Dating Göbekli Tepe.
Dating sites and finds is the backbone of archaeology. Regarding Göbekli Tepe, we get lots and lots of questions about its chronology. These questions are absolutely legitimate (as actually really […]
Göbekli Tepe – The first 20 Years of Research
Part 1: A (Re-) Discovery (1994-1996) Göbekli Tepe was for the first time recognized as an archaeological site during a large-scale survey project conducted by the Universities of Istanbul and […]
Who built Göbekli Tepe?
Well, the short answer would be: Stone Age people with Stone Age tools. Nothing more needed, no aliens, no giants, as you can read here. For an answer to the […]
The current distribution of sites with T-shaped pillars
The characteristic element of Göbekli Tepe´s architecture are the T-shaped pillars. In the older Layer III (10th millenium BC) the monolithic pillars weigh tons and reach heights between 4 m […]
Losing your head at Göbekli Tepe
Just back from this year´s ICAANE in Vienna, where a very inspiring workshop on the “Iconography and Symbolic Meaning of the Human in Near Eastern Prehistory” was organized by Jörg […]
