5/11/2023 0 Comments The Leopard's Tale by Ian HodderThe book - written by the Director of Research at Catalhoyuk - is subtitled, perhaps ironically, “The Leopard’s Tale”, as hardly a trace of a leopard was found among the faunal remains at the site through many seasons of excavation. What is remarkable about this site is the symbolic art that has been found there: Skulls of wild bulls and parts of other wild animals are plastered on to the walls of the houses, which are also decorated with many paintings of wild animal hunts the human participants of these scenes often wear what look like leopard skins, and illustrations of leopards – usually in pairs - abound throughout the site. Catalhoyuk is an archaeological site in Anatolia in Turkey, where the remains of a “town” densely occupied from the Neolithic age (about 7500 BCE) though the Chalcolithic (early use of Copper, about 6000 BCE) have been excavated.
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