10,000-Year-Old Gürcü Tepe: Is This Where It All Ended? | Ancient Architects

In the past few weeks I’ve been providing archaeological updates on the Taş Tepeler sites of the SE Anatolia region of Turkey. This is thanks to a presentation that was given by archaeologists in November 2022 on the Turkish language Arkaeolojihbar YouTube channel. Watch here: The presentation provided updates on well-known sites Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, as well as Sayburç, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Sefer Tepe and Cakmaktepe but there was also another ancient site that was discussed, one that is not one of the 12 Taş Tepeler sites, and one you may never have heard of. It’s called Gürcü Tepe, a late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site on the southeastern outskirts of Şanlıurfa, Turkey and it consists of a number of shallow tells, or mounds, on a plain along the Sirrin Stream that flows from Sanliurfa. It was first excavated in the 1990s by the late, great Klaus Schmidt and although excavations came to an abrupt end and most of t