The quarries for the statues used at the Göbekli Tepe temple complex are located on the plateau itself; some unfinished pillars have been found there in situ.

The biggest unfinished pillar is still six point nine meters long; a length of nine meters has been reconstructed.

This is much larger than any of the finished pillars found so far.

The stone was quarried with stone picks.

Bowl-like depressions in the limestone rocks may already have served as mortars or fire starting bowls in the Epipaleolithic.

There are some phalloi and geometric patterns cut into the rock as well; their dating is uncertain.

The site is deliberately backfilled sometime after 8000 BCE: the buildings are covered with settlement refuse that must have been brought from elsewhere.

These deposits include flint tools like scrapers and arrowheads and animal bones.

Byblos points and numerous Nemrik-points characterize the lithic inventory; there are also Helwan-points and Aswad-points.