Karahan Tepe, roughly 35 kilometers east of Göbekli Tepe, is one of the most significant of these.

Excavations at Karahan Tepe, intensified in recent years under the direction of Turkish archaeologists in collaboration with international researchers, have revealed enclosures with T-shaped pillars and rich carved animal imagery that is broadly similar to the Göbekli Tepe material.

The site appears contemporaneous with Göbekli Tepe in its major phases of monumental construction.

Other sites in the Taş Tepeler (“Stone Hills”) project, a broader research initiative coordinated by Turkish authorities to investigate multiple sites in the region, include Karahantepe, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Sayburç, and others.

Each of these adds to the evidence that the monumental communal architecture tradition represented at Göbekli Tepe was not the expression of a single, isolated genius but was part of a shared cultural and social world spread across a significant territory.