Our first public Lecture will be given by Assoc. Prof. Fatma \u015eah\u0131n (\u00c7ukurova University) on 26th October 2022 at 17:30: \u201c\u00c7akmaktepe, G\u00f6beklitepe\u2019den \u00f6nce bir yerle\u015fik avc\u0131-toplay\u0131c\u0131 topluluk\u201d.<\/p>\n
It will be hybrid and in Turkish
\nIn person: IBEF, room H-232
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\nTo request the event Zoom link, please send a message to The Department of Archaeology.<\/p>\n
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Abstract<\/p>\n
\u00c7akmaktepe, a sedentary hunter-gatherer community before G\u00f6beklitepe
\nThe lecture will present for the first time the preliminary results of two excavation seasons at \u00c7akmatepe, an Late Epipalaeolithic and early Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (ca 10500-9500 BCE) settlement located some 30km from the UNESCO World Heritage site of G\u00f6beklitepe. Its investigation is carried out under the aegis of the \u015eanl\u0131urfa Neolithic Ta\u015f Tepeler Research Project, one of the largest regional archaeological projects in modern Turkey.
\n\u00c7akmatepe, whose excavation started a few months after its discovery in 2021, is currently the earliest excavated site in the region and two fieldwork seasons have already uncovered significant evidence for the existence of sedentary hunter-gatherer communities, several millennia before the advent of plant and animal domestication. Some of the stone structures (some up to 15 m in diameter) investigated seem to be clear precursors to the complexes of G\u00f6beklitepe, providing an analytical context to study the beginnings of monumentality and sedentism in the region. In parallel with the excavation, a broader survey to the west of \u015eanl\u0131urfa is also uncovering evidence for hunting camps and hunting traps (the so-called “desert kites”) that are contemporary with the \u00c7akmatepe community, allowing to study these processing in their broader landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our first public Lecture will be given by Assoc. Prof. Fatma \u015eah\u0131n (\u00c7ukurova University) on 26th October 2022 at 17:30: \u201c\u00c7akmaktepe, G\u00f6beklitepe\u2019den \u00f6nce bir yerle\u015fik avc\u0131-toplay\u0131c\u0131 topluluk\u201d. It will be hybrid and in Turkish In person: IBEF, room H-232 or To request the event Zoom link, please send a message [\u2026] <\/p>\n