Rock inscriptions in the Aswan region
The rocky Cataract region in southern Egypt has long fascinated visitors. Even members of the ancient Egyptian elite left their marks on the rocky surfaces for millennia. Therefore, Elephantine Island […]
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EcoDM Stipendiat*innen berichten von der RDA DE Tagung zum Stand des digitalen Datenmanagements: Raisa Barthauer
Bericht von Raisa Barthauer von der SUB Göttingen zu ihren Erkenntnissen von der RDA DE Tagung 2020 über Bedarfe und Hindernisse für ein nachhaltiges Datenmanagement.
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The German Archaeological Institute, the home-base of the Göbekli Tepe Project (excavations and research conducted by the Orient and Istanbul Departments in close cooperation with the Şanlıurfa Haleplibahçe Museum, funded […]
Cereals, feasts and monuments at Göbekli Tepe
We were asked in comments and messages to elaborate some more on the contents of our recent paper. So here is a short summary of the article recently published in […]
Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey
We have finally published some thoughts on processing and use of cereals at Göbekli Tepe. As the text is open access, we will just leave the link , some beautiful […]
A rather odd figure: The so-called Kilisik Sculpture from Adıyaman, Turkey
The apparently anthropomorphic appearance and meaning of (at least some of) the T-shaped pillars known from Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori (and likely many of the other sites with similar pillars […]
Building with big stones. – Or: There is no globe-spanning ‚Megalithic Culture‘.
Recently a colleague from the University of Gothenburg, Bettina Schulz Paulsson, published a most interesting study [external link] about the origin and evolution of megalithic constructions in Europe (Schulz Paulsson […]
Tracking Analogies: The Shigir Idol from the Urals
In 1894 a very special discovery was made in a peat bog c. 100 km north of Jekatarinburg in the Urals. Gold miners discovered fragments of an originally possibly 5.3 […]
Tracking Analogies: The Shigir Idol from the Urals
In 1894 a very special discovery was made in a peat bog c. 100 km north of Jekatarinburg in the Urals. Gold miners discovered fragments of an originally possibly 5.3 […]
A clay mask depiction from Göbekli Tepe
This is a short version of the article: O. Dietrich, L. Dietrich, J. Notroff, A clay mask depiction from Göbekli Tepe. Neo-Lithics 2018/01. During the 2001 excavation season at Göbekli […]
On the hunt, some 12.000 years ago: An aurochs bone with hunting lesion from Göbekli Tepe.
All archaeological finds of a site add to its history, but some can capture us with the underlying story. This is the case for an aurochs bone with an embedded […]
„What is so special about Neolithic special buildings?“ Session upcoming at EAA´s Annual Meeting in Maastricht
‘Special buildings‘ has become an often-used label in Near Eastern Archaeology for constructions deviating in architecture, elaborate inner fittings, finds and often also treatment after the end of use (intentional […]
A Short Note on a New Figurine Type from Göbekli Tepe
This text has been published originally (and in slightly different form) as a short contribution by Oliver Dietrich and Klaus Schmidt (†) in Neo-Lithics [external link] 1/17, 43-46. The most striking […]
Beginning social complexity during the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: a view from Göbekli Tepe
This is the English version of a text published by Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff in the latest issue of Aktüel Arkeoloji [external link]. Our knowledge of the early Neolithic […]
