Abstract:

Stone sculptures, carrying weight for the history of Turkic cultures, are still being matters of debate today because of not only their construction purposes but also their naming (in Turkish taş heykel, balbal, bediz, bugu taşı etc.). Tura-Su stone sculpture, found after the researches under ‚Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University Teskey Ala-Too (South Tian Shan) Archaeology Project ‛ which will gain a new dimension to scientific discussions on stone sculptures coming across in any place of Turkic cultures and became a matter of many scientific publications will be explained and presented to the benefit of science world. One of the main elements making Tura-Su Woman Warrior Stone Sculpture is that there is no similar of the sculpture yet in the territory of Yedi-Su and it is different from the others by formal features. Because of these differences, Tura-Su Woman Warrior Stone Sculpture is excluded from the categories on stone sculptures accepted by scholars. In that case, the general features and the differences of the Tura-Su Warrior Stone Sculpture will be considered in this article. Especially, new evaluations about the construction purposes and the classification of stone sculptures that are important in terms of the history of Turkic cultures will be conducted in the light of information obtained from the Tura-Su stone sculpture

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