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Paleolithic Period
Stone artifacts preserve a long record of changing technologies and lifeways, while organic tools, speech, performance, and many coastal sites are underrepresented.
Evidence first
From foragers to early villages and monuments
Trace regional changes in settlement, food production, and communal building without reducing them to one sudden revolution.
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Natufian Culture
Natufian communities harvested wild plants, hunted and gathered diverse resources, built substantial structures at some sites, used cemeteries, made ornaments, and developed repeated places of social memory before domesticated farming became the dominant economy.
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Neolithic Revolution
In Southwest Asia, sedentary foragers, intensive use of wild cereals, storage, communal building, cultivation, herd management, and biological domestication appeared in different combinations over millennia. Other regions followed their own chronologies and pathways.
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Taş Tepeler
The programme coordinates work on diverse early Neolithic settlements, camps, hunting places, landscapes, and monumental or special buildings across the Şanlıurfa region.
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Göbekli Tepe
Its architecture, food remains, tools, imagery, and settlement evidence place communal monument building within wider changes in aggregation, subsistence, and regional life.
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Karahan Tepe
The site shows that Göbekli Tepe was not an isolated case of early monumental construction. Karahan Tepe preserves its own architectural arrangements and unusually prominent human imagery, but its sequence, building functions, and symbolic meanings remain under investigation.