Sculpted mammoth boulder, Ken Johnston find on the shore of a former glacial terminus swamp, now modern-day Buckeye Lake, Ohio.
This is the third large mammoth sculpture (boulder size) with a face incorporated onto its posterior I have found in the Licking River valley, Licking County, Ohio. I have also found other mammoth sculptures and smaller examples with animal and human faces combined with the mammoths. This art motif is one of the most well documented on this blog.
Mammoth model for comparison of silhouette to the Ohio sculpture
Mammoth trunk at left, posterior at right. A simple human face has been incorporated into what would be the mammoth's 'left haunch.'
Area highlighted in blue has been worked by stone pecking.
Human face on mammoth's posterior
Buckeye Lake, Ohio, mammoth sculpture on a boulder
A glacial terminus swamp, 'Buffalo Swamp' to historical native Americans, an Ohio & Erie canal feeder lake, then 'Buckeye Lake' State Park. A now gone amusement park is seen here in the 1960's. The approximate find location of this Ohio mammoth sculpture may be seen in the upper left of this photo.