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Excavation ongoing places tagged “tas tepeler”

3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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gobekli contemporary1

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🇹🇷 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.

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🇹🇷 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.

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🇹🇷 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.