Gürcütepe
Gürcütepe is a Neolithic site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa in Turkey.
It consists of four very shallow tells along a brook that of Şanlıurfa out in the Harran-level flows. All four hills are now covered by modern buildings, so that they are no longer recognizable. In the late 1990s were of a German archaeological team under the direction of Klaus Schmidt on all four hills soundings carried out and on the second hill seen from the east also extensive excavations made.
Previously it was assumed that the four hills were settled in a specified time sequence, one of these settlement phases then the in-sight Gobekli Tepe in the Germuş mountains should coincide. This thesis has been falsified by the excavations; Rather, all four hills were during the PPNB settled, only the easternmost hill was still wearing a later PPNC -Besiedlung. Thus the Gürcütepe joins a number of Neolithic localities in Turkey, all Stampflehmgebäude possessed with space subdivision next larger community buildings. The small finds correspond to what we previously knew already. Overall, the Gürcütepe therefore gives the impression of a rural settlement which was significantly younger than the famous Gobekli Tepe.
Related works
- M. Belle Bohn, Ch Gerber, M. Morsch, Klaus Schmidt:. Neolithische Forschungen in Obermesopotamien. Gürcütepe und Göbekli Tepe , In: Istanbul Releases 48, 1998, 5-78.
- Klaus Schmidt: Zuerst kam der Tempel, dann die Stadt. Bericht zu den Grabungen am Gürcütepe und am Göbekli Tepe 1996-1999 , In: Istanbul Releases 50, 2000, 5-40.
- Klaus Schmidt: Gürcütepe, in Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit. Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien [Great National Exhibition in 2007 in Baden Baden-Württemberg Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Palace, 20 January to 17 June 2007], ed. from the Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2072-8, p 94th
- Klaus Schmidt: Sie bauten die ersten Tempel. Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger, die archäologische Entdeckung am Göbekli Tepe. Munich, 3rd, expanded and updated edition of 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-53500-0