The site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey keeps fascinating archaeologists as it is being exposed. The excavation since 1995 has been accompanied by a lively discussion about the meaning and implications of its remarkable early Neolithic megalithic architecture, unprecedented in its monumentality, complexity and symbolic content. The building history and the chronological relations between the different structures (enclosures), however, remain in many ways a challenge and open to further analysis. The study presented here is an attempt to contribute in this direction by applying a preliminary architectural formal analysis in order to reconstruct aspects of the architectural design processes involved in the construction of the monumental enclosures. This is done under the premise that such investigation would shed light on the chaîne opératoire of the enclosures' construction and their history, thus enabling a fresh look as well as an evaluation of past suggestions regarding these structures and the people who built them. Indeed, the results of the analysis brought to light an underlying geometric pattern which offers a new understanding of the assemblage of architectural remains indicating that three of the stone-built large enclosures were planned and initially built as a single project.

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土耳其哥贝克力石阵的几何和建筑规划

土耳其东南部的哥贝克力石阵遗址在暴露时让考古学家着迷。自 1995 年以来的挖掘工作伴随着关于其非凡的新石器时代早期巨石建筑的意义和影响的热烈讨论，其纪念性、复杂性和象征性内容是前所未有的。然而，建筑历史和不同结构（围墙）之间的时间关系在许多方面仍然是一个挑战，并有待进一步分析。这里介绍的研究是通过应用初步的建筑形式分析来尝试在这个方向上做出贡献，以便重建参与建造纪念性围墙的建筑设计过程的各个方面。这是在这样的调查将阐明链式歌剧院围墙的建造及其历史，从而使人们能够重新审视和评估过去对这些结构和建造它们的人的建议。事实上，分析结果揭示了一个潜在的几何图案，它提供了对建筑遗迹组合的新理解，表明三个石头建造的大型围墙是计划和最初作为一个项目建造的。