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25 Stone Turtle Figurines Found in a Turkish Cave May Reveal a 16,500-Year-Old Ritual World
Deep inside a prehistoric cave in northwestern Türkiye, archaeologists have uncovered an unusual collection of about 25 stone turtle figurines, some deliberately pushed into the ground around circular architectural features. The discovery is offering a rare glimpse into the symbolic world of hunter-gatherers who used the site toward the end of the Ice Age. The…
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Headless Figurines Left in 8,000-Year-Old Buildings Hint at a Neolithic Ritual in Turkey
Headless figurines found at Kanlıtaş Höyük in western Turkey may preserve one of the most intimate traces of Neolithic ritual behavior: the moment when a building was deliberately closed and something was left behind. The four terracotta female figurines, discovered near İnönü in Eskişehir Province, date back roughly 8,000 years. Found close to floor levels…