The site

Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic sanctuary in Upper Mesopotamia, in modern Turkey, inhabited from around 9500 BCE during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is famous for large circular enclosures of massive stone pillars, among the world's oldest known megaliths, many carved with human details, clothing and reliefs of wild animals. The 15-meter tell offers rare insight into prehistoric religion at the very dawn of permanent human settlement.

Field notes

civilizations

Neolithic

types

City · Village

built

9,999 BCE — 8,200 BCE

occupied

9,999 BCE — 7,000 BCE

country

Türkiye

elevation

760 m above sea level