11,000 year old leopard carving at Sayburç. Like Karahan Tepe, Sayburç forms part of the Taş Tepeler network of c. 11,000-year-old Neolithic sites in southeastern Türkiye, with similar monumental architecture and symbolic art. Read more www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

At Karahan Tepe, a statue of a person with a leopard on their back. Karahan Tepe is c11,000-year old Neolithic site in southeastern Türkiye, leopards feature prominently at the site karahan-tepe.com/blog/karahan...

It’s #WorldCatDay! so let me share some of my favourite ancient cats from Türkiye. Here is the 9000 year old leopard relief from Çatalhöyük, now at the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. Read more about it here turkisharchaeonews.net/article/find...

Discussing sampling strategies at @arcdurham.bsky.social Sedgefield excavation yesterday. This is a Roman roadside settlement occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Happy to be hosting this @arcdurham.bsky.social seminar with Dr Edward Henry (Colorado State University), “From Circles to Cities: Geoarchaeological Insights into Indigenous Histories of Precontact Eastern North America”, Room CB-0015 3rd June 16:00-17:00. Also on Teams (DM for link).

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