12,000-Year-Old Figurine Reveals Earliest Human-Animal Myth

Tiny Clay Figurine From 12,000 Years Ago Shows a Woman and a Goose in a Surprising Pose

Twelve thousand years ago, someone pressed a fingertip into soft clay and changed how humans tell stories.

12,000-Year-Old Figurine Uncovered in Northern Israel - Archaeology Magazine

Photograph (left) and artistic reconstruction (right) of a Natufian clay figurine depicting a woman with a goose enveloping her JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—A 12,000-year-old figurine depicting a human-animal interaction has been unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev II (NEG II), a Late Natufian village site in northern Israel, according to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Archaeologists Leore Grosman, Laurent Davin, and Natalie Munro said …

12,000-Year-Old Figurine Of Woman, Goose Offers Peek In Prehistoric Belief

A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose in what may be one of the world's oldest renderings of a mythological scene.

A 12,000-Year-Old Figurine Shows the Earliest Human–Animal Interaction Ever Found

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient symbolism.

Archaeology breakthrough as world's oldest human sculpture found after 12,000yrs

A 12,000-year-old figure of a woman has been discovered near the Sea of Galilee.

Figurine of Gander Covering Woman May Show 12,000-year-old Myth in Israel - Archaeology

By the Prehistoric Sea of Galilee, a Natufian in an Early Village Made and Fired What May Be the World's Earliest Figurine of a Lively Scene