Nevalı Çori was an early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in Şanlıurfa Province in south-eastern Turkey. Dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, roughly 8400–8100 BC, it belongs to the group of early sites now called the Taş Tepeler. It is famous for holding some of the world's oldest known temples and monumental sculpture, and — together with the nearby, earlier Göbekli Tepe — it transformed scholarly understanding of the Neolithic. The oldest domesticated einkorn wheat was identified here.
The site sat about 490 metres above sea level in the foothills of the Taurus, on both banks of a Euphrates tributary. It was excavated from 1983 to 1991 as a rescue dig during the construction of the Atatürk Dam, by a University of Heidelberg team under Professor Harald Hauptmann. When the dam filled, Nevalı Çori — like many neighbouring sites — was flooded, and it now lies beneath the reservoir.
