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Many of you will already know a lot about the 11,600-year-old site of Göbekli Tepe, with its oval enclosures, its ornately-carved T-shaped pillars, and the fact we have an incredibly sophisticated settlement at the very beginning of the Holocene.

But many of you will not have heard about Enclosure F. It's something not often discussed, and that’s because until recently, it seems there wasn’t a lot published.

But in 2023, Oliver Dietrich and Julia Wagner published a paper, titled “Early Neolithic imagery in flux. A case study on the reliefs of Building F at Gobekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey.”

So far, two-thirds of this enclosure have been excavated and eight pillars have been identified. Not only do these pillars tell us a great deal about the history of Göbekli Tepe, but one pillar in particular stands out.

It's known as Pillar 74, and on it is portrayed a man, whom I've called 'The Buried Man of Göbekli Tepe' - the only full-bodied human to be depicted on a T-shaped Pillar.

Watch this video to learn more about it, to learn about the importance of this enclosure and how it fits within the timeline of events in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

All images and footage are taken from either the sources listed below, were sent to me to with permission, are from Google Earth or Google Images. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video, and please leave a comment below. Thank you.

Content:
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Göbekli Tepe
1:47 Göbekli Tepe Enclosure F
6:45 Pillars 70 - 73
8:16 Pillar 74: The Human Stone
10:39 Pillars 75 - 77
13:02 The Importance of Enclosure F
13:41 Where Did the Pillars Come From?
14:38 The Later Phase of Göbekli Tepe
15:56 The Meaning of the Imagery
16:59 Who is the Person on the Pillar?
18:16 Concluding Remarks

Sources:
Early Neolithic imagery in flux. A case study on the reliefs of Building F at Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey: [ Ссылка ]
2018.Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi Çanak Çömleksiz Neolitik Dönem Dikilitaş Geleneği ve Simgeciliği: [ Ссылка ]
Göbekli Tepe Virtual Tour: [ Ссылка ]
The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: [ Ссылка ]
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Extra video footage supplied by James Fielding

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