Editing Göbekli Tepe (section)

=== Slope slide events ===
The enclosures, lying over {{Convert|10|m|ft}} below the highest areas of the settlement, were subject to several slope slide events during the occupation period of Göbekli Tepe.{{Sfn|Schönicke|2019|p=217-219}} A particularly severe one occurred at the end of the early PPNB. which inundated enclosure D with rubble of domestic structures and sediments, including burials and [[midden]] deposits. This caused severe damage to the enclosure, which led to repairs and stabilization works to be conducted. At a later point, in Building Phase 5, terrace walls were erected, likely to prevent future damage from such events. These measures, however, proved futile, when a second major slope slide probably caused the enclosure to the abandoned during Building Phase 6, around the late 9th millennium BCE. Other enclosure suffered a similar fate, which might have led to new enclosures being constructed to replace them.{{Sfn|Kinzel|Clare|2020|p=32-33}}

Previously, it had been assumed that the large enclosures were intentionally back-filled, an interpretation that has fallen out of favor since Klaus Schmidt's death.{{Sfn|Schönicke|2019|p=217}}