Taşbaba

Just as traces of ancient Turkish history can be seen in the inscriptions on Bengütaş and the rock paintings, the stone memory of the Turks has lived on in plastic stone sculptures and figures made from stone in different regions for thousands of years, such as stone father, stone grandmother, stone horse, stone ram, stone deer, stone fish, stone turtle, and the interpretation of the documents reflecting this life is given in this book.

The stone father tradition, which emerged in the ethnography of proto-Turkic tribes in Near East 5-6 thousand years ago, spread from there to Europe and the Altai along the Kipchak steppe with the migration of Turkic tribes.

The stone fathers, the oldest examples of which have been found in Azerbaijan and Türkiye, are important documents in terms of ancient Turkish history, ethnography, and mythology. The results have been systematically researched in the light of the new Turkological Urmu theory and presented in a scientific-popular styl Show More