Karahan Tepe lies 63 km south of Urfa in Tektek Dagalari [Tektek Mountains]. It seems to have been inhabited only during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period [9100-8400 BC]. Finds are categorised as architectural elements, finds with depictions and small finds. The small finds comprise tools made of flint and obsidian, chisels and adzes made of river pebble, beads, stone pot fragments, grind stones, and pestles but pottery. There are many flint tools, obsidian finds, animal bones, little axes, basalt grinding stones, a large basin carved into limestone as at Gobekli Tepe, and a stone bowl also known from Hallan Cemi and Gobekli Tepe. " Although terrazzo floors are not visible so far, natives of the nearby village claimed that they had seen terrazzo floor-like structures, so they must be at the underlying levels"1. The setlement of Karahantepe was discovered during the Şanlıurfa Archaeological Survey of 1997. It settlement covers an area of nearly 10 hectares.
- http://www.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=8643&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
- Bahattin Çelik, A New Early-Neolithic Settlement: Karahan Tepe, in: Neo-. Lithics 2-3/00, pp. 6-8- https://www.academia.edu/10817853/Karahan_Tepe
- Gül Güler, Bahattin Çelik, Mustafa Güler, New Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites and cult centres in the Urfa, Documenta Praehistorica 40(1):2013, pp. 291-304
- Necmi Karul, Buried Buildings at Pre Pottery Neolithic Karahantepe / Karahantepe Çanak-Çömleksiz Neolitik Dönem Gömü Yapıları 2021, Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi 86, sa.86, ss.19-31, 2021
References
- ↑Bahattin Çelik, a New Early-Neolithic Settlement: Karahan Tepe, in: Neo-. Lithics 2-3/00, p.6-7