19,000-Year-Old Stone Figurines Unearthed in Türkiye’s Kızılin Cave Rewrite Prehistoric Art History
A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in southern Türkiye is reshaping our understanding of symbolic behavior and artistic expression in prehistoric Anatolia. Excavations at Kızılin Cave, located near Yağca in Antalya’s Döşemealtı district, have uncovered stone human figurines dating back nearly 19,000 years — the oldest known of their kind in the region. As reported by Koray