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Two hominin heads joined together at the back and facing in opposite directions from Tennessee River site

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'Two hominin heads joined together at the back and facing in opposite directions'
Jason Lamont find, Hardin County, Tennessee, from his property along the Tennessee River at a confluence with a creek

In a portable rock art context Jason identified this as a rock with two faces on it, one looking right and one looking left. Paleolithic sculpture author Pietro Gaietto of Italy has described sculptures like this, sometimes with juxtapositions of anatomically modern humans with more archaic human forms. 

As Pietro Gaietto has described, I propose this Tennessee sculpture depicts a modern human face looking left and an archaic, or more robust, human type looking right with depiction of a brow ridge and more of a sloping forehead.



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