Binnenland·universiteitleiden.nl·11 feb

Do Communities Build Monuments or Do Monuments Build Communities?

This workshop focuses on cooperation, resilience, and collective identities in the prehistoric societies of southeastern Türkiye and wider southwest Asia. It follows the public lecture on 24 February by Prof. Necmi Karul on the Taş Tepeler sites of southeastern Türkiye, most notably Göbekli Tepe and Karahantepe, which have transformed our understanding of prehistoric social organisation. These sites demonstrate how communities with limited material resources and without formal social hierarchies were able to coordinate labour and knowledge to create large-scale, symbolically charged communal architecture.