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Bird-human combination from The Netherlands

Jan van Es collection, Roermond, The NetherlandsBird head looking left with full human face on side of bird's head

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Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, bird form finds defy probabilities of natural...

This bird form is one of several found in the context of other likely sculptures in the back yard of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, resident Jeff Vincent. The discovery of multiple bird form stones in such...

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A granite bird figure from the SDM Site in Kent County, Michigan

Granite bird figureFrom SDM Site, Kent County, Michigan, Dennis J. Moore collection

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A feline, bovine and human polyiconic flint figure stone from Wingst, Germany

A feline, bovine and human polyiconic flint figure stoneNelly Sloan find, Wingst, Germany

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Human "creative explosion" occurred on the order of hundreds, not tens, of...

Homo erectus image on an Acheulean scraper interpreted by Ken JohnstonThis Acheulean scraper I noticed in a French Paleolithic tools collection (Calvados, Normandy, West of Paris Basin, est. 550,000 to...

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A petrified wood Wood Bison, bird and human combination figure stone from...

Chris Schram find and interpretation as a Wood Bison figure, Westminster, ColoradoChris Schram has interpreted this as a worked piece of petrified wood in a representation of the body of the Wood...

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French and American sculptures may depict creatures looking left split with...

Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, site #23JP1222 in Missouri.Possible feline-like head looking left with bird head facing rightThe Old Route 66 Zoo site, a portable rock art megasitePlease compare to the...

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Possible canine stone figures from Germany and Colorado

Flint tool from a north Germany collection may have been intentionally worked to remove selected patches of cortex for eyes and a nose so as to affect the visage of a canine on the toolSide 2 of tool...

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April 4 bird form finds from Jeff Vincent at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Jeff Vincent found bird sculpture, April 4, 2014, Mammoth Spring, ArkansasMore stone birds from Jeff Vincent's back yard, April 4 findsIllustration of a Paleolithic stone bird figure from M.A. Kiriyak,...

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A toothy horse from The Old Route 66 Zoo site, Jasper County, Missouri

Horse figure, Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber, site #23JP1222Horse teeth "in the right place" identified by Dodd are a giveaway to the animal being depicted herePrzewalski's horse teeth

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Eyes and mouth make faces

Pebble with face. Jeff Vincent find, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, in the context of other portable rock art objectsMacario Solis find, Yakima County, WashingtonNumerous iconic artifacts identified by Mr....

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Arkfeld site in Virginia reports portable rock art and carved ivory from a...

Adam Arkfeld find, near Clear Brook, Virginia, registered site #44FK732photo from Pleistocene Coalition News, March-April, 2014, issue (link pending activation soon)Landowner and amateur archaeologist...

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Texas flint with two facial profiles on its edges in the Acheulean tradition

Texas flint with facial profile on upper right edge identified by Bill Watersca. 500,000 to 100,000 B.P. Dunbridge, U.K., handaxe with human face profile on edge interpreted by Ken Johnston to compare...

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One eye open, other eye shut, feline and human faces in micro-art on a pebble...

Micro-art feline faceIsolated image from the pebble of a one eye open, other eye shut or missing feline face (with tongue out) interpreted by Ken Johnston. The right eye is a small cluster of quartz...

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A carved gomphothere tusk horse sculpture from the Arkfeld site, Clear Brook,...

Arkfeld farm site, #44FK732, fossil gomphothere tusk with horse carvinglength 38cm, diameter 7cm at large end, weight 2.4kgPhotos by Adam Arkfeld, Clear Brook, VirginiaAdam Arkfeld writes, "This tusk...

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"Birds in flight" from Arkansas, Ohio and the German Swabian Alps show a...

 "Bird in flight" coarse stone figure identified by Jeff Vincent, Mammoth Springs, ArkansasHohle Fels (Hollow Rock), Germany archaeological site carved mammoth ivory "bird in flight" figure, ca. 33,000...

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Sleeping duck sculpture with an eye and feather detail from Jeff Vincent,...

Jeff Vincent find, Mammoth Springs, ArkansasThis is a sleeping duck sculpture in this art motif already described on this blog. Found in a context of dozens of bird figures and sculptures in Jeff's...

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Flint bear head figure manufactured around a quartz crystal lined cavity...

Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Ohio, identified as a bear head figure worked around a quartz crystal inclusion and worked to manufacture a back lighted translucent "eye"Vanport chert bear head figure,...

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Southern Ohio cupule stone find confirms earlier interpretations of mammoth...

Anonymous mushroom hunter's Springtime find in Pike County, Ohio, is a "cupule stone" where the outline of the stone is an abstracted geometric representation of a mammoth facing left and a simple...

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Colorado petrified wood artifact with "tally marks" likely a mammoth...

Chris Schram collection, Westminster Colorado, interpreted as a mammoth figureThis artifact has about 10 "tally marks" or parallel groove markings across its side. The stroke marks may indicate more...

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