Göbekli Tepe

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A re-discovery: At the wishing tree. Urfa, city and region -- Finds, researchers technical terms: The three-age system, the Neolithic and the Jericho shock. The fertile crescent and the hilly flanks. Çatal Höyük, another city from the Stone Age. Çayönü, the early birth of Hephaistos. Nevali Çori, in the valley of the plague. Gurcutepe and the birth of a new research project -- Göbekli Tepe: The belly mountain. Enclosure A, the snake pillars building. Enclosure B, a Mesopotamian Stonehenge in the making, the fox pillars building. Enclosure C, in the circle of the boars. Enclosure D, in the Stone Age zoo -- Between meaning and interpretation, approaching images and world of the Stone Age: Animals and depictions of animals in the Ancient Near East. Cultural memory and the dream paths of the Stone Age -- The more recent layers of Göbekli Tepe and the end of the hunters' sanctuary: The more recent buildings and the lions pillars building. When the hunter needed the farmer, pre-conditions for a sanctuary of the Early Neolithic -- Göbekli Tepe, recent finds and thoughts, an epilogue.