Guarded by beasts: a porthole stone from Göbekli Tepe
During the 2009 and 2010 excavation seasons at Göbekli Tepe, several new trenches at the northwestern hilltop of the tell were opened. Below the plough horizon, as we already had […]
Month: März 2017
A decorated bone spatula, what’s in that picture? – Iconology and Archaeology.
In 2011, a special object was discovered at Göbekli Tepe in one of the excavation trenches in the tell’s northwestern depression (Fig. 1). Excavation had just proceeded into layers undisturbed […]
The death of an aurochs: Göbekli Tepe, Pillar 66, Enclosure H
Next in our series about the pillars of Göbekli Tepe (here, and here) is P 66 in Enclosure H, located in the northwestern depression of the tell. The most prominent decoration […]
The Göbekli Tepe ‚Totem Pole‘
Every excavation season at Göbekli Tepe reveals new remarkable finds and although the overall spectrum of objects to be exspected is known quite well, there are also surprises. One of […]
