The cult complexes at the settlement had a number of features in common with göbekli tepe such as a terrazzo style lime cement floor monolithic t shaped pillars built into dry stone walls and two free standing pillars in the center of the complex area.
Gobekli tepe floor.
The discovery is important because it was assumed that architectural planning methods such as geometry and floor.
However the architecture of gobekli tepe is evidence of social organization and monumental construction that are far earlier than expected.
A comet killed off the wooly mammoth and impelled the rise of civilization.
Of rock limestone pillars stand 18 feet above the floor of sub circular structures completed with stone and clay mortar walls and founded on bedrock below the.
Gobekli tepe overview of the site excavations in turkey.
It is approximately 760 m 2 500 ft above sea level.
Experts at the university of edinburgh analysed mysterious symbols carved onto stone pillars at gobekli tepe in southern turkey to find out if they could be linked to constellations.
The t shaped pillars show reliefs of what appear to be human hands.
ɟœbecˈli teˈpe potbelly hill is an archaeological site in the southeastern anatolia region of turkey approximately 12 km 7 mi northeast of the city of şanlıurfa the tell artificial mound has a height of 15 m 50 ft and is about 300 m 1 000 ft in diameter.