Taş Tepeler Project

SPM researchers are involved as cooperation partners in the Taş-Tepeler project (literally: Stone Mounds Project) under the direction of Prof. Necmi Karul from Istanbul University. Several sites equipped with the enigmatic T-shaped pillars known from Göbeklitepe are excavated and analysed by multinational teams. The researchers from Munich are responsible for the archaeofaunas of Göbeklitepe, Gürcütepe and Karahantepe. Dr. Stephanie Emra is mainly responsible for the analyses, which are part of her DFG project “Two river basins, two histories? Orthodoxy and innovation in animal-human relationships in the Upper Tigris and Euphrates regions”. In addition to the archaeofaunas from these three sites Dr. Emra also investigates assemblages from the Tigris region.