# Banning 2011: So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East

> E. B. Banning, 2011. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The source of the "houses, not temples" answer and its predictions.

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# So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East

E. B. Banning, 2011. _Current Anthropology_.

The main challenge to the temple reading. Banning argues the enclosures could have been roofed houses, that the sacred and domestic were not separated in the PPN, and that the finds (lithics, bone, grinding stones) look domestic. Published with comments by other specialists and a reply.

**Göbekli Tepe** Articledoi: **[10.1086/661207](https://doi.org/10.1086/661207)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The source of the "houses, not temples" answer and its predictions.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The enclosures were large roofed houses in a society that did not separate sacred from domestic space.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/answers/ANS0D956Y607H42/the-enclosures-were-large-roofed-houses-in-a-society-that)

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[Lithics, bone and grinding tools from the fills look like settlement debris.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956YDT4QQH/lithics-bone-and-grinding-tools-from-the-fills-look-like)

Evidence

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[Banning's "So Fair a House" argues the enclosures were houses](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/events/EVT0D956SSC4X7C/bannings-so-fair-a-house-argues-the-enclosures-were-houses)

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[E. B. Banning](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/people/FIG0D956R2P7SPH/e-b-banning)

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[Göbekli Tepe](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe)

The mystery article

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[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)

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## Cite it

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Banning, E. B. (2011). So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East. Current Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1086/661207
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1086/661207)

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