Adam Robinson find, Stark County, Ohio
Adam writes: "My elevation is almost 1300ft and the surrounding area is 850-900. I live on a plateau called top of the world. I don't think my land was glaciated, I think it caught a lot of runoff and deposits but never carved. There's fossil sea life still in the ground only an inch below the soil. Everything I have matches Acheulean and Mousterian artifacts. Very strange."
Ken Johnston illustration of Adam's interpretation along with possibility of the human head mixed with an animal head facing to the right. Faint traces of the human's mouth and an incised eye are highlighted.
"Many human faces in Paleolithic art look a little like those of large mammals, with an elongated nose or muzzle. These are my drawings to illustrate the character or flavor of this gradient"
(c) Copyright R. Dale Guthrie, "The Nature of Paleolithic Art," 2005, page 92
Adam Robinson identified a similar sculpture on this blog which was found in the Swiss Alps.
A couple of bird figures identified by Adam
'Sitting bird figure'
A worked flint from the site with possible human face profiles on two sides. The arrow illustrates the 'eyesight line'. The photo at right has a possible face in left 3/4 profile on the left edge.
A battered and broken anvil stone reconstructed by Adam Robinson
The artifact at upper left is limestone made on a prepared core using Levallois-like technology.
Stone tools identified by Adam Robinson
American handaxe identified by Adam as similar to some Acheulean handaxes
