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		engineer_22 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was fo... As I understand it, Tepe is local word for tel. Climate in this region makes them easy to distinguish since not a lot of plant cover making it easier to identify potential sites? Fertile crescent floods. Nile floods. Unique geography and climate in Turcep key to this?

mrighele 4 months ago [–]

"Tepe" is just a Turkish word for hill or mound.

So "Göbekli Tepe" literally is "Hill with a belly", "Taş Tepeler" is "Stone hills" etc.

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