Gurcütepe
The Gürcütepe (Turkish: Georgian hill) is a Neolithic site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa in Turkey .
It consists of four very flat tells (Gürcütepe I to IV) along a stream that flows from Şanlıurfa into the Harran plain . Today all four hills are built over more modern and can no longer be recognized. At the end of the 1990s, a German archaeological team led by Klaus Schmidt carried out soundings on all four hills and extensive excavations on the second hill seen from the east . All four hills were inhabited during the PPNB , only the easternmost hill was also inhabited in PPNC . There were Stampflehmgebäude found space subdivision next to the larger community buildings.
literature
- M. Beile-Bohn, Ch. Gerber, M. Morsch, Klaus Schmidt: Neolithic research in Upper Mesopotamia. Gürcütepe and Göbekli Tepe. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 48, 1998, pp. 5-78.
- Klaus Schmidt: First came the temple, then the city. Report on the excavations at Gürcütepe and Göbekli Tepe 1996-1999. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen 50, 2000, pp. 5-40.
- Klaus Schmidt: Gürcütepe , in The oldest monuments of mankind. 12,000 years ago in Anatolia. Large state exhibition of Baden-Wuerttemberg in the Badisches Landesmuseum Schloss Karlsruhe, January 20 - June 17, 2007, ed. from the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2072-8 , p. 94.
- Klaus Schmidt: You built the first temple. The enigmatic sanctuary of the Stone Age hunters, the archaeological discovery at Göbekli Tepe. 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-53500-0 .