Gürcütepe

Gürcütepe I–VIII

Being excavatedNot open to visitors

The latest site in the project: a plain-edge village from the time people left the limestone hills for the lowlands. It helps explain why the Göbekli Tepe world ended.

Visiting

Not open to visitors

Mostly built over by the modern city; only part of Gürcütepe III is preserved.

Source: tastepeler.org · checked 19 Oct 2026

Dating

Late PPNB into the Pottery Neolithic

Phase: LPPNB–PN

Source: tastepeler.org

Discovery

Recognised by a Turkish–American team; dug 1995–1999 by the DAI and the Şanlıurfa Museum (Mısır, Hauptmann, Schmidt)

Source: tastepeler.org

Excavation

Being excavatedRecorded as: ongoing excavation

Ege University (Mücella Erdalkıran) with the Museum of the Ancient Near East / Pergamon Museum (Barbara Helwing); new phase since 2021

Key find

  1. Rectangular stone-founded houses, cooking pits, figurines, phalli, Byblos points

    tastepeler.org

Where

Haliliye (Şanlıurfa) inferred

Inferred from the supporter list.

District level only. We don’t publish coordinates or directions to excavation and survey sites.

Field Log · 1 entry

  1. PolicyTaş Tepeler (Şanlıurfa Neolithic Research Project) launched

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Sources · 2

  1. Gürcütepe (site page, text by M. Erdalkıran & B. Helwing)Taş Tepeler project site, T.C. Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  2. Türkiye illuminates its Neolithic Heritage with TAŞ TEPELERGoTürkiye / TGA press release · Sep 2021