Hamzan Tepe
Hamzantepe
Survey onlyNot open to visitorsReported
A small site of about 17 decares that has both a T-pillar and round houses, more like Nevalı Çori or Çayönü than a pure cult centre. Known only from survey and looting damage.
The record
- Dating
- Early Neolithic; also a Lower Palaeolithic open-air station · Çelik 2010
- Found
- Reported by Bahattin Çelik in 2004 (Neo-Lithics) · Çelik (TTK); Çelik 2010
- Finds
- One in-situ T-pillar; two round buildings exposed by looters · Çelik (TTK)
- Excavation
- Surveyed. None published
- Visiting
- Unexcavated survey site. · Çelik, checked 19 Oct 2026
- District
- Eyyübiye inferred
Sources · 3
- Hamzan Tepe in the light of new finds (B. Çelik), Documenta Praehistorica 37University of Ljubljana · 2010
- Şanlıurfa İli Neolitik Dönem Yüzey Araştırması Sonucunda Ortaya Çıkan Yeni Bilgi ve Bulgular (B. Çelik)Türk Tarih Kurumu (PDF) · c. 2020-2022
- Taş TepelerWikipedia (English)