Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs

Klaus Schmidt, 2010. Documenta Praehistorica.

Schmidt's fullest English summary of the enclosures A to D, the pillar iconography, the central pillars read as anthropomorphic figures, and the argument that monumental cult architecture preceded farming.

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Cited for the enclosure descriptions, the iconography and the "temples first" thesis.

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The enclosures were open-air sanctuaries used by mobile hunter-gatherers who did not live on the mound.

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The reliefs are the symbolic and mythic repertoire of the builders, varying between enclosures, with no…

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Pillar 18, eastern central pillar of Enclosure D

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Pillar 43, the "Vulture Stone"

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Stela from Enclosure D, now in the Şanlıurfa Museum

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The Göbekli Tepe "totem pole"

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The Urfa Man (Balıklıgöl statue)

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Central pillars 5.5 m tall with anthropomorphic reliefs, far larger than any PPN dwelling.

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Klaus Schmidt

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Göbekli Tepe

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How did hunter-gatherers organise the labour to quarry, carve and raise the pillars?

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What were the pillar buildings of Göbekli Tepe for?

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Schmidt, K. (2010). Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs. Documenta Praehistorica. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.37.21

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Schmidt, Klaus. “Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs.” Documenta Praehistorica (2010). https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.37.21.