# The enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement.

> Most likely: The enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement.

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# The enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement.

The enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: four pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Contemporary domestic architecture, water storage and food processing on the mound.
- Long use-lives with repairs, rebuilding and re-used pillars rather than one build and one burial.
- The same pattern at the other Taş Tepeler sites.

## What would rule it out

- Demonstration that the domestic buildings and cisterns post-date all the pillar buildings, or that the pillar buildings were never roofed.

## Evidence 4 for · 1 against

[Domestic buildings, cisterns and large-scale cereal grinding on the mound.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956ZD23F8F/domestic-buildings-cisterns-and-large-scale-cereal-grinding)

Established

FOR

[Intact burials in settlement deposits; scattered bone in the enclosures explained by deposits sliding…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956ZWP0TF4/intact-burials-in-settlement-deposits-scattered-bone-in-the)

Supported

FOR

[Karahan Tepe combines pillar buildings with houses and was settled from about 9400 BC into the 8000s BC.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D95704G6N4G/karahan-tepe-combines-pillar-buildings-with-houses-and-was)

Supported

FOR

[Repairs, rebuilding, seismic damage and moved pillars show long use-lives.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956ZMW0MAD/repairs-rebuilding-seismic-damage-and-moved-pillars-show)

Supported

FOR

[Whether the domestic buildings are contemporary with Enclosure D or later has not been shown in a published…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D9570CA3PAR/whether-the-domestic-buildings-are-contemporary-with)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What were the pillar buildings of Göbekli Tepe for?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/questions/QST0D956VG255C1/what-were-the-pillar-buildings-of-gobekli-tepe-for)

Most likelyThe enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement

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