Göbekli Tepe as One of the World's Oldest Archaeological Sites (Essay Sample)

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Göbekli Tepe
Hunter-gatherers built them in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia between 9,600 and 8,200 BCE. These monuments appear to have been used in funerals. Some 11,500 years ago, people in Upper Mesopotamia carved wild animal motifs on distinctive T-shaped pillars. UNESCO has designated Göbekli Tepe as one of the world's oldest archaeological sites. It depicts vital cultural exchanges in architecture, technology, monumental arts, town planning, and landscape architecture—a beautiful architectural ensemble showing a crucial historical period.
Prof. Harald Hauptmann (1936-2018) taught prehistory and Near Eastern archaeology at Heidelberg University and served as the German Archaeological Institute's director of Istanbul's Istanbul Department (1994-2006). Archaeological digs in eastern and southern Turkey from the Early Neolithic to the Medieval Era were carried out by him over his long career. Until his death in 2014, Klaus Schmidt was a well-known archaeologist and prehistorian in Germany. He attended the universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg to study pre- and protohistory, classical archaeology, and geology. Twenty years of Klaus Schmidt's life were devoted to Göbekli Tepe's excavation and investigation.
Carved from limestone quarries nearby, the anthropomorphic pillars from Göbekli Tepe are noted for their unusual