The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük

by Ian Hodder

The book begins with a puzzle: leopards are a central part of Çatalhöyük’s art, but virtually none of their remains have been found. In solving this mystery, the reader is led into the elaborate social and symbolic world of Çatalhöyük―a world where people were buried beneath the floors of houses, later to be exhumed and decapitated, and the head handed down from generation to generation.