🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Harbetsuvan Tepesi
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler PPN
Tektek summit acropolis with round terrazzo building and T-pillars, 7 km from Karahan Tepe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sayburç
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kurt Tepesi
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA–PPNB) · Taş Tepeler
Tektek ridge T-pillar sanctuary linking Karahan and Harbetsuvan, ~5 ha with twin enclosures.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A to early PPNB · Taş Tepeler / Upper Euphrates PPN
Taş Tepeler megasite (14 ha) with T-pillars 30 km west of Şanlıurfa, unexcavated Göbekli-contemporary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sefer Tepe
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Taş Tepeler T-pillar quarry hill with unfinished 5 m blanks still attached to bedrock.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Taşlı Tepe
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Tektek ridge domestic-ritual village showing everyday life behind Göbekli's monuments.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Taş Tepeler Network – Karahan & Sefer Tepe etc.
PPN A/B 9600–8000 BCE · Taş Tepeler PPN
Umbrella for 12 PPN hilltop sanctuaries (Karahan, Göbekli, Sayburç, Çakmaktepe, Sefer Tepe etc.) being excavated 2019-present, revealing 250+ T-pillars region-wide, reshaping Neolithisation model.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Karahan Tepe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.