Excavators found no cooking hearths, houses, trash pits, or clay fertility figurines at Göbekli Tepe, features that were found at nearby settlements of approximately the same age.
Sources
- Gobekli Tepe: The World's First Temple? - Smithsonian Magazine (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/article/234/gobekli-tepe---the-worlds-first-temple/ (worldhistory.org)
- http://www.danel.com.hr/Gobekli%20Tepe.html (danel.com.hr)
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