Göbekli Tepe
Subtitle: a Stone Age sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia
By: Klaus Schmidt
Contributors: Wittwar, Mirko
Publisher: Ex Oriente e.V.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783944178004
Subjects: Neolithic period; Stone age; Antiquities
Work titles: Sie bauten die ersten Tempel
Notes: "Published in cooperation with ArchaeNova e.V., Heidelberg, Germany. Translation: Mirko Wittwar. "--T.p. verso.

First published by C.H. Beck, München in 2006. This translation based on the 3rd rev. ed. of 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-267), glossary, and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A re-discovery: At the wishing tree. Urfa, city and region; title: Finds, researchers  technical terms: The three-age system, the Neolithic and the Jericho shock. The fertile crescent and the hilly flanks. Çatal Höyük, another city from the Stone Age. Çayönü, the early birth of Hephaistos.  Nevali Çori, in the valley of the plague. Gurcutepe and the birth of a new research project; title: Göbekli Tepe:  The belly mountain. Enclosure A, the snake pillars building. Enclosure B, a Mesopotamian Stonehenge in the making, the fox pillars building. Enclosure C, in the circle of the boars. Enclosure D, in the Stone Age zoo; title: Between meaning and interpretation, approaching images and world of the Stone Age: Animals and depictions of animals in the Ancient Near East. Cultural memory and the dream paths of the Stone Age; title: The more recent layers of Göbekli Tepe and the end of the hunters' sanctuary: The more recent buildings and the lions pillars building. When the hunter needed the farmer, pre-conditions for a sanctuary of the Early Neolithic; title: Göbekli Tepe, recent finds and thoughts, an epilogue.