The recently excavated pillared room at Karahan Tepe in southeastern Turkey, cut directly into bedrock with multiple T-shaped and phallus-shaped pillars ri
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The recently excavated pillared room at Karahan Tepe in southeastern Turkey, cut directly into bedrock with multiple T-shaped and phallus-shaped pillars rising from the floor. Dating to roughly the same period as Gobekli Tepe, this site demonstrates that monumental construction in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic was a widespread phenomenon rather than an isolated occurrence.
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