The paintings and sculptures found at Catal Huyuk are remarkable though they raise problem in interpretaion. In what context were they conceived? The Dancing Hunter, for example. This is one of many male figures with bows and arrows, sometimes wearing leopard skins, in a scene typical of Catal Huyuk wall painting in which hunting predominate. Woman are reraly depicted. They appear frequently in elay figurines, however indeed they greatly outnumber the men. Thus in one of the main dimensions of meaning discernible in these prehistoric visual images, that of the wild and the former just when hunting was being overtaken by agriculture. Would it be anachronistic to see them also in a context of gender difference, of changing male and female roles at this significant juncture in Neolithic life ?