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Special Enclosure 15

Special Building 15 is the strongest public structure anchor at Çakmaktepe. It is linked with a 2025 exterior deposit of more than 30 burnt gazelle skulls and five wild sheep heads.

Site: ÇakmaktepeStructure: Special Building 15
Çakmaktepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Çakmaktepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Fatma Şahin, Cakmaktepe general view, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

The building was narrowed in a later use phase, its floor was carefully resurfaced with a pebble floor, and the animal-head deposit was reported in front of the exterior wall over a roughly 10 x 3 m area.

What to notice

Public/special building at Çakmaktepe. Later phase narrowed the building. Pebble floor resurfacing is reported. Exterior-wall deposit covered roughly 10 x 3 m. More than 30 burnt gazelle skulls were reported. Five wild sheep heads were reported with or near the same exterior context. Gazelle horns were reported intact. Exact loci, plan relationship, and taphonomy still need formal publication.

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?