🤯 The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
💀 Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc - the emphasized ribs already seem to hinting at death, which would go well with what we've already been discussing in terms of the peculiar iconography of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Anatolia and beyond.
But there's more ...
Of course, the phallus-flashing guy got all the headlines, but these early #Neolithic reliefs from #Sayburc, SE #Türkiye are much more fascinating, even beyond that.
The Sayburç relief showing an aurochs and a human in its left and another, phallus-presenting human flanked by two leopards in its right half. Photo: B. Kösķer, via Antiquity Publications Ltd press…
The Sayburç relief showing an aurochs and a human in its left and another, phallus-presenting human flanked by two leopards in its right half. Photo: B. Kösķer, via Antiquity Publications Ltd press…
Oh, while we're talking about early #Neolithic #archaeology - how about Eylem Özdoğan's latest paper (Documenta Praehistorica LI, 2024) on the ongoing #excavations at #Sayburc (yes, another of the #TasTepeler T-pillar sites) for some more weekend reading?
https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/18953/16237
This. Is. So. #Mesmerizing.
A carved #story from 11,000 years ago.
Of #man, #tiger, #bull and #snake.
A #relief in a communal #building.
#Wow.
"The earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’, and reflects the complex relationship between #humans, the #natural world and the #animal #life that surrounded them during the transition to a sedentary lifestyle."
To #travel back in #time and contemplate the images in better detail:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sayburc-reliefs-a-narrative-scene-from-the-neolithic/3A35B54B3265C7224CB225FE70EBDD02
This #Sayburc relief caused some headlines last week and that phallus-flashing guy got all the attention.
But there's more than a #Neolithic dick pic! The overlooked second scene offering a great starting point to think about Neolithic #hunting weapons:
https://jens2go.medium.com/weapons-of-choice-a-pe-pottery-neolithic-hunting-scene-814cd3c878ae
The recent publication of a relief carving depicting a fascinating “narrative scene” unearthed during excavations in Sayburç (southeastern Turkey) has made quite some headlines. Most reporting…
Finally, and this convinces me that we might read at least the left part of this #Sayburc depiction as #hunting scene, there are these interesting things called #ThrowingSticks.
With quite similar depictions again coming from #Catalhöyük.
http://revedeboomerang.free.fr/Master%20thesis%20-%20Throwing%20sticks%20-Luc%20Bordes2014.pdf
Admittedly, it's a bit challenging to really recognise a bow here in this #Sayburc scene. So, could it be something else then?
This offers a great chance to think about other possible #hunting tools and weapons which have played a role in #Neoltihic hunting, #aurochs and beyond.
Jens Notroff
Jens Notroff
Rui Borges