Karahan Tepe is an amazing Neolithic site, in many ways similar to Göbekli Tepe, but with some features that we don't even see there. This short video captures my tour of the site on November 6.
Like Göbekli Tepe, this site is a settlement that was occupied in the later Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA, ca. 9000 BC) and earlier Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB, about 8000 BC), although precise dating of the various buildings still needs more work. The earlier buildings are round, and the latest ones rectangular in shape. All the animals eaten at the site were wild, and probably they were harvesting wild cereals as well.
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Chapters
00:06 Introduction
00:40 From Sefer Tepe to Karahan Tepe
01:17 Entering the Site
01:32 Structure AC
01:45 Structure AA
02:12 Structure AB - the "Phallic Building" - An Initiation Chamber or a Cistern?
04:23 Pottery at Karahan Tepe
05:15 Evidence for a cistern?
05:55 Structure AD - The Large Circular Building
08:14 The Slope Above Building AD
09:32 Building with Statue of Seated Man
11:11 Square Building with Stone Slab Bench
11:30 Monumental Building on the South Edge
12:14 Broken "Portal Stones"
12:23 View Across the Valley to the South
12:39 Southeastern Corner of the Excavations
13:00 The Pillars at Karahan Tepe
13:34 Graffito of a Running Onager
13:43 Domestic Buildings at Karahan Tepe
14:07 The "Kitchen Building" East of Structure AD
15:25 A Huge Collection of Stone Vessels
16:09 Animals Eaten at Karahan Tepe
16:34 Leaving Karahan Tepe
16:54 Closing Credits