What is reported
Structure BF is described as a small building next to Structure AD, associated with T-shaped pillars and a group of finds. The cleanest reported counts are three small animal figurines, three stone rings, and a nested pair of stone vessels (a smaller vessel set inside a larger one). Stone plates and other worked objects are also mentioned, along with fire features and, in some reporting, burned skulls and selected animal remains.
Most of the animal-remains and burning claims are still plural and reporting-grade; they need formal zooarchaeological publication before findspots, quantities and species can be stated with confidence. The 'BF' label itself, and the building's exact size and function, are not independently confirmed in the checked formal literature.
What is still uncertain
Whether BF was a domestic, storage or ritual space, how its finds were deposited, and how it relates to the adjacent Structure AD are all open questions. As with the other lettered buildings recently exposed at Karahan Tepe, this is an active-excavation context whose account will be refined by the project's own reporting.
Sources & further reading2 references
- Karul, N. (2021). Buried Buildings at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Karahantepe. Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi 82: 19–29.
- Karul, N. (2025). Public lectures and interviews on Karahantepe and the Taş Tepeler project. Transcribed talks and interviews held in the Taş Tepeler research atlas. Spoken material rather than a peer-reviewed publication; positions may be refined in print.
Full bibliography: the Taş Tepeler reference library →