Peer-reviewed & academic
- Özdoğan, E. (2022). "The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic." Antiquity 96(390), 1599–1605. Cambridge Core — the foundational description of the relief.
- Özdoğan, E. (2024–2025). Further reporting on Sayburç's structures, burials and finds.
- Tok, K. (2024). Spatial-analysis thesis on the Sayburç settlement.
- Karul, N. (2021). Context on Karahan Tepe and the wider Taş Tepeler / Göbeklitepe-culture horizon.
- Dietrich, O. et al. (2012). "The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities… Göbekli Tepe." Antiquity 86(333). Cambridge Core — the feasting & fermentation evidence.
Press & institutional
- Archaeology.org — "Neolithic Structures Found at Site Near Göbeklitepe" (2025).
- Türkiye Today; Hürriyet Daily News; Arkeonews; Daily Sabah — 2022–2025 reporting on Sayburç.
- News Central Asia — "Taş Tepeler Project Marks Five Years" (2025).
- DAI "Tepe Telegrams" — Göbekli Tepe research, including Urfa Man and the Vulture Stone.
- Karahan Tepe — "The Sayburç Human Statue."
Field observations
Some details — the great belted pillar and its squiggle, the primary burial and its preliminary injuries, the stone basins and the skull set in a niche — come from fieldwork at Sayburç rather than from a publication. We label these as field observations and treat them as preliminary until they appear in the formal record.
Image rights & credits
This site uses a mix of photographs — of the Sayburç relief, its museum cast, and the excavation — and interpretive renderings and diagrams where a photograph isn't available or appropriate. Photographs are used with permission or under licence and are credited to their source; the diagrams are our own. If you hold the rights to an image used here and have any concern, email info@thecommunitygarden.org and we will add a credit or remove it promptly.
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