hello everybody and welcome to ancient architects please subscribe now to get the latest ancient history news and independent research from around the world my last two videos are focused on two of the twelve sites that make up the tasterpella archaeological projects in turkey twelve sites around the haran plain that date to the pre-pottery neolithic era of ancient anatolia between twelve thousand and nine thousand years ago going back to this map that was published by the daily sabha and after a brief look at carahan tepe and habetsavanta pessi i next decided to travel east to see what i could find out about cefetepe one of the lesser known sites of the twelve at this stage i must say that pictures from this site are few and far between so apologies if this video is not visually appealing but i will give you the information that's available cephetepe was discovered in NUMBER_TOKEN another pre-pottery neolithic site located NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers east of san leaver it's a small broad and shallow limestone mound at NUMBER_TOKEN meters altitude above sea level and the settlement is built directly onto the bedrock and covers an area of NUMBER_TOKEN square meters the closest water source is NUMBER_TOKEN meters to the east there is also a possible ancient basalt quarry just two kilometers to the north but there are no local sources of flint when experts first surveyed the land NUMBER_TOKEN t-shaped pillars were found in situ and of course the link was instantly made to gobekli tepe like with the other tepee sites the t-shaped pillars are arranged side by side at NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN meter intervals the pillars themselves are around NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters wide and NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters in thickness just like we see at habetsavan to pessi they are likely around one to two meters in height also like habetsavanta pessi they have been compared to the stone structures in layer two of quebec tepe indicating they're from the pre-pottery neolithic bee around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN years ago this intact pillar NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters in length was found during the construction of a country house at the southeastern corner of the settlement there are no reliefs or engravings but experts noted that it was extremely flat being just NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters in thickness this pillar was also found at the same time in two pieces and has been compared to one of the central pillars from the valley corey it stands NUMBER_TOKEN meters tall NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters wide and NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters in thickness and some of the archaeologists believe there is a faint ukrainian sketch depicted aka the skull of an ox this would not be uncommon youtuber and researcher ziggy dan whose channel and twitter i've linked below spotted this ox school in one of the recent pictures from carahan tepe and it's situated in the corner of an enclosure so such a depiction at cephertepe would not be out of the question there were no ceramic finds again evidence that it was from the pre-pottery neolithic and flint and obsidian tools and hunting weapons were found including arrowheads perforators scrapers borers and
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