Gebekli Tepe, which functioned at the junction of the ancient and new Stone Ages on the territory of modern South-Eastern Turkey, is one of the extraordinary monuments of the Upper Mesopotamia of the pre-ceramic Neolithic period. The book by the head of these excavations, an expert in the Eastern Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Dr. Klaus Schmidt, for the first time allows the reader to get a holistic picture of the history of archaeological study of the object, the most important results of field work available at the time of publication of the monograph, as well as the conclusions and thoughts of the author on this topic. Having an excellent command of information, including the latest, on the Middle Eastern cultures of the Stone Age, Klaus Schmidt presents the materials of Gobekli Tepe in relation to comparable data from other monuments of Western Asia, and in addition, Europe, Africa and other regions of the world