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AND SCIENCE DIPLOMACY DISCOURSES: GÖBEKLİTEPE The Neolithic era is a period when nomadic life gradually ended, the transition to agricultural society accelerated and architectural structures emerged. One of the most impressive neolithic sites in the world is Göbeklitepe in Şanlıurfa. Göbeklitepe was unearthed as a result of the work carried out jointly by the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum and the German Archaeological Institute since 1995. This area is full of many stone tools and large sized smooth cut stones. Since Göbeklitepe was not used for settlement by neolithic people, there are no building for this usage that remains. This area consists of the oldest and the most magnificent of the

A Preview to Genesis of the Gods Göbekli Tepe is a name that will be familiar to anyone interested in the ancient mysteries subject. Billed as the oldest stone temple in the world, it is composed of a series of megalithic structures containing rings of beautifully carved T-shaped pillars. It sits on a mountain ridge at the western termination of the Ante-Taurus range in southeast Anatolia (today part of the Republic of Turkey), just eight miles (thirteen kilometres) from the ancient city of Urfa, Abraham’s traditional birthplace. Here its secrets have remained hidden beneath an artificial, belly-shaped mound for the last ten thousand years. Agriculture and animal husbandry were

The author has spent 45 years deciphering and authenticating the Sefer Yetzirah: Book of Creation (Kaplan, 1990) as the only Kabbalistic text attributed to the prophet Abraham. It is also the only text to explain the underlying mathematics of the holiest name of God, יהוה (transliteration: Yahweh or Jehovah) that ef- fectively defines Scripture’s “owner’s manual” (Schatz, 2007; Schatz, 2012: pp. 127-131). The Kabbalistic tradition of Jewish mysticism is based on Razah D’Oraytah (“Secret of Knowledge” or “Secret of the Torah”) which articulates the notion that “The entire Torah is like an explication of, and commentary on, the Ineffable Name of God” (Scholem, 1974: p. 171; Gikatilla, 2011:

Ein Diskussionspapier zur Soziologie des Kultbaus vor 12.000 Jahren Der Göbekli Tepe ist die Fundstätte eines vor fast 12.000 Jahren gebauten steinzeitlichen Kultbaus in der Türkei nahe der Stadt Urfa/ Sanglıurfa. Er wurde von SammlerInnen und Jägern errichtet, bevor die Seßhaftigkeit „erfunden“ war. Klaus Schmidt, der Ausgräber dort, hat dazu ein sehr informatives Buch vorgelegt: „Sie bauten die ersten Tempel“. (2008) Darin überlegt er auch die sozialen Umstände jener Zeit. Wenn ich über dessen Vorstellungen mit einigen soziologisch begründetenSpekulationen hinausgehe, so darf das nicht als Kritik an ihm verstanden werden. Mein Thema ist nur etwas anders angelegt

Zum Abgang eines außerordentlichen Weltkulturerbes Vor ein paar Jahren kam die Süddeutsche Zeitung in einer engagiert recherchierten Göbekli Tepe-Reportagemit einem Aufmacherbild daher, das zwar wie NG oder Geo aussah, aber dennoch Lust auf eine Reise zum realen Göbekli Tepe machte (unzureichende Zitat des für den Zeitungsdruck gerasterten Bildes in Abb. 1, SZ vom 10.12.2010). Zwar sind die T-Pfeiler auch hier künstlich ausgeleuchtet – doch man könnte sich vorstellen, dass die untergehende Sonne ein Restlicht auf die Kultstätte des Hügels über dem am Horizont bereits in Schatten und Dämmerung liegenden Urfa wirft. Das wollte ich sehen! Und so erzeugte dieser Artikel mit diesem Bild den letzten Kick, 2015 einen Ausflug

Towards a New Understanding of Abandonment Practices at the Neolithic Settlement of Göbekli Tepe Göbekli Tepe is well-known for its monumental buildings with anthropomorphic T-shaped pillars, decorated with reliefs of wild animals which have been featured prominently in earlier works. The abandonment which occurred some 1500 years after the initial occupation of the site, however, remains virtually unexplored. This paper attempts to reconstruct abandonment practices and routines within and parallel to phases of occupation. A crucial source of data for the abandonment of Göbekli Tepe is provided by considerations relating to site formation, including the topography of the site with its mounds, steep slopes, and hollows where strong winter

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