Figurines over 8,000 years old representing man, woman and child unearthed in Aegean Turkiye

In Turkiye’s Aegean province of Izmir, figurines dating back to around 5700 BC, believed to represent a male-female pair and child have recently been unearthed, said the scientists responsible for the find, Anadolu Agency reports. Ozlem Cevik, an archaeologist at Trakya University in north-western Turkiye, who heads the dig team, told Anadolu that they have been continuing excavations at the Ulucak Mound in Izmir’s Kemalpasa district, which has a history dating back some 8,500 years. Saying that they came across significant findings in this year’s excavations, she explained that “the figurines were found in a space we thought was a storage area and are dated to around 5700 BC. They appear to be a female and male pair, with the […]

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