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…
Neolithic Turkey
An amphitheater-like Neolithic structure has been uncovered at Karahantepe in southeastern Turkey
Under the sharp light of the Şanlıurfa plateau, archaeologists at Karahantepe have revealed a structure unlike anything previously documented in the early Neolithic world: a…
Turkey’s Taş Tepeler Reveals its Most Mysterious Neolithic Art Yet: New Faces, New Rituals, New Questions
A still-faced sculpture with a sealed mouth, unfamiliar stone portraits carved in the hills, and a double-sided bead that seems to look in two directions…