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West Virginia rock panel relief carving may depict an action scene of a human fleeing a lion biting the neck of a bear

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West Virginia rock panel relief carving may depict an action scene of a human fleeing a lion biting the neck of a bear
Mike Ellis find and photo from near Charleston, West Virginia. Photo courtesy of Alan Day, the Day's Knob web site, where Alan presents some more of Mr. Ellis' finds, among figure stones from the Day's Knob site (#33GU218) and from 17 states with more to come.

Ken Johnston interpretation and illustration of the rock art action scene. The lion's mouth is represented by the red line. The artist presents the human's left body profile, the lion's head right profile and the bear head viewed straight on from the front. (click photo to expand and toggle between clean photo and the illustration).

-kbj

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