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A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe
Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, 2015. Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East (Oxbow).
The excavation team's reply to Banning: the scale of the pillars, the absence of hearths and domestic installations inside the enclosures, and the burial of the buildings are read as marks of special-purpose architecture.
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The counter-case to the house reading.
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Dietrich, O., & Notroff, J. (2015). A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe. Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East (Oxbow). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dspq.11
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Dietrich, Oliver and Jens Notroff. “A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe.” Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East (Oxbow) (2015). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dspq.11.