# Kinzel 2020: Monumental – compared to what? A perspective from Göbekli Tepe

> Moritz Kinzel, Lee Clare, 2020. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The main source for the revised "settlement with special buildings" reading.

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# Monumental – compared to what? A perspective from Göbekli Tepe

Moritz Kinzel, Lee Clare, 2020. _Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic: Narratives of Continuity and Change (Oxbow)_.

The current DAI team's reassessment: the enclosures were rebuilt and repaired over long periods, were likely roofed, and the fills accumulated partly by slope processes rather than one deliberate burial. The site is described as a settlement with special buildings, with cisterns, domestic structures and grinding tools on the mound.

**Göbekli Tepe** Chapterdoi: **[10.2307/j.ctv13pk66m.7](https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13pk66m.7)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The main source for the revised "settlement with special buildings" reading.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The enclosures were roofed communal and ritual buildings within a permanent hunter-gatherer settlement.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/answers/ANS0D956Z583SWQ/the-enclosures-were-roofed-communal-and-ritual-buildings)

Answer

ANS

[Building archaeology indicates the enclosures were roofed and repeatedly repaired, and the fills formed over…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956XY60GN0/building-archaeology-indicates-the-enclosures-were-roofed)

Evidence

EVD

[Domestic buildings, rock-cut cisterns and more than 7,000 grinding stones are present on the mound.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/evidence/EVD0D956XEJ41J4/domestic-buildings-rock-cut-cisterns-and-more-than-7-000)

Evidence

EVD

[Moritz Kinzel](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gobekli-tepe/people/FIG0D956RJA1HP4/moritz-kinzel)

FIG

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

The mystery article

MYS

[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)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Kinzel, M., & Clare, L. (2020). Monumental – compared to what? A perspective from Göbekli Tepe. Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic: Narratives of Continuity and Change (Oxbow). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13pk66m.7
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13pk66m.7)

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**SRC** 0D956HZC53SW

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Book chapter

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27 Oct 2026, for editors

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