What is reported
Structure BH is described as a rectilinear building of roughly 9 by 7 metres with walls surviving up to about 3.5 metres high, standing near Structure BD. Reported features include two-tier benches, several broken T-shaped pillars, a large stone vessel set against the north wall, a two-step platform, a channel and traces of burning.
These are strong research leads, but they are reporting-grade. At the time of writing the checked formal literature does not independently confirm the 'BH' label, the exact loci, object counts, stratigraphy or the building's function. The heat traces, vessel, platform and channel together hint at some kind of activity or ritual use, but that reading is not yet established.
What is still uncertain
Almost everything that a full excavation report would settle remains open for BH: how it relates in time and plan to the neighbouring buildings, what the burning represents, and whether the vessel-and-channel arrangement served a practical or a ceremonial purpose. This entry should be read as a placeholder that fuller publication will correct and expand.
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.
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