Southeastern Turkey's early Neolithic Taş Tepeler ('stone hills') sites — Göbekli Tepe, Karantepe and Çayönü — share a regional style: communal buildings and homes, quarried limestone, erected pillars, and carved human and animal figures. The video argues that farming wasn't required for monumental work, because food collection and storage could support a construction workforce. 🗿
Taş Tepeler communities in southeastern Turkey built stone enclosures and carved pillars
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Key facts
- The video refers to early Neolithic sites in southeastern Turkey collectively as the Taş Tepeler ('stone hills') tradition, including Göbekli Tepe, Karantepe and Çayönü.
- Inhabitants of these sites built communal spaces and homes, quarried limestone, erected pillars, and carved human and animal figures.
- Similar architectural features at several settlements indicate that large stone construction was part of a wider regional tradition.
- The video argues that farming was not a prerequisite for monumental construction, since adequate food collection and storage could support a construction workforce.
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Several sites equipped with the enigmatic T-shaped pillars known from Göbeklitepe are excavated and analysed by multinational teams.
10 Questions About Taş Tepelergoogle.com
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Taş Tepeler: The Land of Mysterious Stone Hillsgoogle.com
The discovery of Taş Tepeler indicates a larger community united around a common faith between 12,000 – 8,000 BC in an area extending some 200 kilometres.
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