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India human head profile appears to have worked facial features including two...
From India, human head with eye, two nostrils and mouth, Thath Chanuhacha collection, Bangkok, Thailand.The facial features appear to be worked but this would need be confirmed by a petrologist. The...
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"Right eye open, left eye missing" Paleolithic art motif may have persisted...
A sculpture from a recently located city of ruins in an isolated part of HondurasAn artifact lays partly exposed amongst the ruins (Dave Yoder/National Geographic)"Mr Fisher said that the most striking...
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San Saba County, Texas, lion head figure may depict a human on all fours...
Lion head figure, Jeff Smith find, San Saba County, TexasIllustration of the manufactured eye on this lion head in left profile and expansion of the natural vein feature to make the mouthJeff noticed...
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Mother and child sculpture from The Netherlands, collection of Jan van Es
Mother and child sculpture, Beegden, Netherlands, age >250,000 years BPCollection of rock art researcher Jan van Es of Roermond, NetherlandsJan van Es illustration of two eyes and a mouth composing...
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A lion/man pebble figure stone from Austin, Texas, art context evokes...
Lion/man head worked pebble found by David Boies, Austin, Texas, was found in strong portable rock art context near Austin. 4 x 4cmPaleolithic art and early sculpture author Pietro Gaietto has made an...
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"Left eye missing" face mask together with etched standing human line figure...
"Left eye missing" Paleolithic portable rock art sculpture identified by David Boies at Austin, TexasThis stone figure may appear natural-looking to many observers. It was selected as a raw cobble...
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Arkfeld site carved limestone bar is demarked by joined lines and includes...
Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, Virginia, site #44FK732 (click to expand)This limestone bar was shaped by squaring off and trimming its edges. It evidences 3 or 4 incised lines which are joined to...
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Brighton, U.K., handaxe is also a subtle human head portrait in left 3/4 profile
"Animated handaxe" identified by Ken Johnston in the collection of the Brighton Museums is attributed to Homo neanderthalensisThis handaxe has been carefully worked to express the portrait of a person...
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Left eye missing face mask on a cobble from Texas has glassy right eye
"Left eye missing face mask on a cobble" David Boies collection, Austin, TexasThe artist encountered a glassy inclusion in the stone while working this channel to make the right eye feature and left it...
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Bird sculpture with split tail feathers from Arkfeld Site, #44FK732, Clear...
Bird sculpture from Arkfeld Site, #44FK732, Clear Brook, Virginia.The artist exploited white band inclusions through the blue stone to create split tail feather imagery. The sculpture stands upright on...
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Colorado bird figure in petrified wood has similar morphology to German bird...
Chris Schram collection, Westminster, ColoradoSide 2 of the Colorado bird figure shares a similar morphology to the below figure from Germany. These may have been created using a related idealized...
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Colorado animal head in petrified wood with worked eye, nose and mouth is...
"Animal head,"Chris Schram find, Westminster, Colorado, in context of dozens of figurative portable rock art creations. The eye, nose and mouth have flake scars which indicate this is a sculpted...
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Human head stone sculpture and tools from the Ice Age Arkfeld site, #44FK732
Human head stone sculpture recovered by Adam Arkfeld, Clear Brook, VirginiaArkfeld writes: "Interesting features; mouth is another example of fossil utilization. A worm tube has been utilized. Left eye...
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Swiss Alps Neanderthal head profile combined with Sapiens head profiles...
Found by Moray Mackintosh in the Swiss Alps and recognized to depict several facesMr. Mackintosh sent the photos to the Paleolithic proto-sculpture and sculpture author Pietro Gaietto who is familiar...
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From Île d'Oléron, France, a right eye open human head sculpture and a...
Henri Valentie find, Île d'Oléron, FranceMr. Valentie writes: "This left profile 3/4 flint I found on the new site on the island of Oleron with many unifacial tools. We can see eye open and the closed...
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Bear figures from Arkfeld Site, 44FK732, Clear Brook, Virginia
Adam Arkfeld identified a bear-like figure on the back of the same sculpture combining a face mask with a mammoth head featured three postings ago.Arkfeld site bear figure with noseArkfeld site bear...
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Bear figure from The Old Route 66 Zoo Site, 23JP1222, near Joplin, Missouri
Interpreted as a bear figure with its nose sniffing the air. Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, near Joplin, MissouriSide 2 looks like it could depict a running bear or a bird+bear combination appearing...
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Chert "right eye open, left eye missing" human face including worked nostrils...
Jeff Vincent find, Mammoth Spring, ArkansasChert "right eye open, left eye missing" face including worked nostrils and mouth from a strong portable rock art context developed by Jeff at Mammoth Spring,...
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Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, sculpted head profile with nostril divot
Sculpted head profile figure, Jeff Vincent collection, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
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Pietro Gaietto describes the very early origin of what have been called...
"The Man of the Romandato" find by Paleolithic art author Pietro Gaietto Gaietto writes: "Fig. 4.9) Lithic Sculpture. It represents the head of a hominid with great opened wide mouth.Size: Height cm....
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