Söğüt Tarlası – Biris Mezarlığı

U 51/1–2

Being excavatedNot open to visitors

First dug in the 1960s and re-opened by an Italian team in 2022. Its finds link the Taş Tepeler to Tigris sites such as Körtik Tepe and Çayönü.

Visiting

Not open to visitors

Excavation site.

Source: tastepeler.org · checked 19 Oct 2026

Dating

PPNB layer; Uruk-period layer; Palaeolithic/Epipalaeolithic finds

Phase: PPNB (+ others)

Source: tastepeler.org

Discovery

1963 (Çambel & Braidwood survey); dug by Bruce Howe in 1964

Source: tastepeler.org

Excavation

Being excavatedRecorded as: ongoing excavation (since 2022)

Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum with Tuscia University, Italy (Gian Maria Di Nocera)

Key find

  1. Pestles with shaped heads, greenstone axes, grooved stones, limestone vessels

    tastepeler.org

Where

Bozova (Şanlıurfa)

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

Field Log · 2 entries

  1. DiscoveryTaş Tepeler 5th anniversary: 30 new finds shown, including a ‘stitched-mouth’ statue
  2. DiscoveryIstanbul–Chicago survey records Göbekli Tepe, but misses its significance

Open these in the Field Log

Sources · 2

  1. Söğüt Tarlası – Biris Mezarlığı (site page, text by G. M. Di Nocera)Taş Tepeler project site, T.C. Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  2. Bakan Ersoy Yeni Keşifleri TanıttıŞanlıurfa Valiliği (Governorship) · 27 Nov 2025