It’s always fun when archaeologists uncover a horny, mildly disturbing bit of ancient history. In today’s case, it’s a little bit of mythology found by researchers digging in northern Israel, who happened upon a little figurine of a human and a goose having sex.

More specifically, they found a 12,000-year-old clay figurine created by the Natufians, a Late Stone Age culture living in what’s now northern Israel. The piece depicts a crouching woman with a goose perched on her back as it is captured in the midst of giving her the business.

According to Laurent Davin, lead author of the new study in PNAS, this is the earliest known figurine showing a human-animal interaction and the oldest naturalistic depiction of a woman in Southwest Asia.

Found in a stone structure full of burials and cer

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