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Archaeologists discovered a statue of a guy riding a leopard at the Neolithic website of Karahan Tepe in Turkey. (Image credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
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Archaeologists operating at a Stone Age website in Turkey have actually found a special representation of an individual resting on the back of a leopard. The 11,000-year-old statue might show the culture’s fascination with potency and masculinity, professionals state.
The statue was discovered this summertime at Karahan Tepe (likewise composed as Karahantepe), a Neolithic website in southern Turkey, according to an Aug. 25 equated declaration from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
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Kristina Killgrove is a personnel author at Live Science with a concentrate on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her short articles have actually likewise appeared in locations such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Kristina holds a Ph.D. in biological sociology and an M.A. in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina, in addition to a B.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia, and she was previously a university teacher and scientist. She has actually gotten awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association for her science composing.
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