The statue was unearthed this summer at Karahan Tepe (also written as Karahantepe), a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, according to an Aug. 25 translated statement from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Excavators found the statue on a platform that ran along the wall of a round structure about 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter, according to the statement.
In 2023, archaeologists at Karahan Tepe unearthed an enormous 11,000-year-old statue of a man clutching his penis, which possibly represents an important ancestor. Another life-size sculpture of a man holding his penis, known as Urfa Man, was found near Göbekli Tepe in 1993. And in 2022, archaeologists working at the site of Sayburç in the Urfa region found a carved scene depicting two leopards, a bull and a man grasping his penis.
Notroff thinks the Sayburç leopard scene and the new statue of a person on a leopard may be linked.
Although the exact meaning of the human-and-leopard motif is unknown, Notroff suggested it could relate to courage or strength.
RELATED STORIES"An individual fearlessly shown among these animals, as in Sayburç, or even apparently mastering one, as in this new sculpture from Karahan Tepe, could be read as maybe a symbol of power, of control over this vigor and danger," Notroff said.
"I believe this discovery, which opens the door to new questions about the earliest periods of human history, will have a wide impact on the scientific community," Ersoy said.
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