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Karahan Tepe - 11,000 Year Old Site
December 8 , 2025
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- Karahan Tepe is an 11,000-year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic site located in Sanliurfa Province, southeastern Türkiye, near the well-known site of Göbekli Tepe.
- It is part of the Taş Tepeler (Stone Hills) group.
- It was inhabited from around 9400 to 8000 BCE on a limestone plateau between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- The site contains early residential structures, ritual enclosures, and T-shaped stone monoliths that show organised communal activity.
- Archaeologists recently found the first human-faced T-shaped pillar along with carved human faces, stitched-lip figurines, serpentinite beads, and hybrid animal-human sculptures.
- Karahan Tepe also features anthropomorphic pillars with carved arms, hands, belts, fur garments, and a 2.3-metre-tall male statue.
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