| Urfa Man | |
|---|---|
 Urfa man, in the Şanlıurfa Museum | |
| Material | Sandstone |
| Size | 1.80 meters |
| Created | c. 9000 BC |
| Present location | Şanlıurfa Museum, Turkey |
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The Urfa man, also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, is an ancient human shaped statue found during excavations in Balıklıgöl near Urfa, in the geographical area of Upper Mesopotamia, in the southeast of modern Turkey.[1][2] It is dated c. 9000 BC to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and was considered as "the oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human".[3] It is considered as contemporaneous with the sites of Göbekli Tepe (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A/B) and Nevalı Çori (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B).[4]
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