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Karahan Tepe |
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Single Findspot |
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Altitude:
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705 m |
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Southeastern Anatolia |
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Sanliurfa |
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Merkez |
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Survey |
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Aceramic |
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| It is located between Tektek Mountains, 58 km southeast of Sanliurfa Province. It was discovered during the survey conducted by B. Çelik in 1997. It was studied within the scope of Sanliurfa Cultural Inventory in 2000 and 2011 [Çelik 2000; 2011]. Karahan Tepe is the largest archaeological site dating to Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the region. During the studies, 266 T shaped pillars were found. Some of these T shaped pillars, which were unearthed due to illicit diggings, bear snake reliefs with rounded heads, while some of them are with triangle shaped heads. Several pillars have incised zoomorphic motifs. Moreover, an anthropomorphic statue with phallus, similar to the ones discovered in Göbeklitepe, was found. The stone quarry, in which an unfinished T shaped pillar with a length of 4 m was discovered, pool-like pits carved into the bedrock and cup-hole depressions found in Karahan Tepe show that this site share similarity to Göbekli Tepe and Hamzan Tepe. In Karahan Tepe, Byblos, Nemrik, Jerf el Ahmar and Aswad points belonging to Pre-Pottery Neolithic were found. During B. Çelik's visit in 2013, it was revealed that the site covers an area of 160 decares. Along with 266 T shaped pillars, 8 broken pillars were exposed. On the hill in the east of the area, a structure with a dimension of 17x17 m, belonging to Early Byzantine Period, was discovered [Çelik 2015a:316]. |
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