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A quartz portrait from the Boukoul site of Jan van Es, The Netherlands
Quartz portrait. Boukoul site (The Netherlands).Typical old Acheulean face. L-4cm, B-3cm From archaeologist Jan van Es who must be more widely acknowledged for identifying the Boukoulian micro lithic...
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Dennis Boggs collection, Oregon, includes this micro-sculpted pebble figure...
Microart sculpted face on a pebble. The Dennis Boggs collection, Columbia River at Irrigon, OregonPebble measures 3.5cm by 5cm in this view. The worked aspect, top of eye to bottom of mouth, is within...
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Same site produces second bivalve shell-shaped sculpture on fossilferous...
A second example of a shell sculpture of made fossiliferous limestone. Licking County, Ohio, find by Ken JohnstonThe edges have been carefully trimmed to make the outline of a scallop shell shape...
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Flint Ridge, Ohio, "rock hound" may have found an example of a flint and...
Anonymous rock collector may have found a stunning example of a flint and crystal lion's head facing left at Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio. (click photos to expand and compare)"Little bear from the...
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A standing stone head with bas relief facial details and white paint traces...
A standing stone head with bas relief facial details and white paint tracesFind by Ken Johnston, Licking County, Ohio, near Buckeye LakeThis is the first of the art objects I discovered in my...
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Microsculpture possibilities: skull, scream and grin masks on piece of exotic...
Dennis Boggs find, Irrigon, Oregon, along the Columbia RiverAfter a couple of years communication with archaeologist Jan van Es of The Netherlands, I have come to recognize some of the microlithic...
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Listen to the rock: Denis Argaut of France makes a masterful interpretation...
Rock art investigator Denis Argaut, (FR), blog Formes de' ombres. Find and interpretation as a "rocking horse," a horse head figure with a realistic galloping horse soundtrack demonstrated on YouTube...
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A Paleolithic female figurine in white quartzite from archaeologist Jan van Es
Paleolithic female figurine in white quartzite from archaeologist Jan van Es, The Netherlands-kbj
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A Lower Palaeolithic twinkle in the eye from The Netherlands
A Lower Palaeolithic twinkle in the eye from the collection of archaeologist Jan van Es, The Netherlands-kbj
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"Mysterious Traces in the High Trebbia River Valley"
Find and photo by rock art investigator Luigi Chiapparoli, Mt. Logo at Montarsolo, ItalyThis Italian landscape subtle relief mask serves as a marker for an area producing a wide variety of prehistoric...
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Likeness to a peccary head with concretion as eye was found in a context of...
A possible depiction of the now extinct Platygonus (head) from Licking County, OhioFound in a context of suspected Pleistocene tool and art forms, Buckeye Lake, Ohio. An iron-bearing concretion in the...
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Enigmatic rocks popularly called "nutting stones" may be art cupules with...
Lynn Yoder find, Indiana Found while dredging soils during mineral prospecting and recognized as an artifact. These forms are regularly called "nutting stones" with the assumption they were used for...
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Oregon translucent pebble has been flaked to exploit a crystal inclusion and...
Find and interpretation by Ken Johnston from the Dennis Boggs collection of anomalous worked stones from the Columbia River valley, at Irrigon, Oregon. It is a "lithophane," a rock carving with...
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Jan van Es describes horse head and human facial profile imagery on Oregon...
Photo illustration by Jan van Es of horse head image nested in the mammoth form along with human facial profile on the right edge (click photo to expand and compare)Archaeologist Jan van Es of the...
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Arizona beaked bird is similar to beaked bird flints from Ohio
Nadia Clark find, Prescott, ArizonaKen Johnston find, Buckeye Lake, Ohio from an earlier post-kbj
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"Two Faces Have I" - shared elements may be symbolic of connectedness
American Charles Hannan, living in Belgium, found this suspected manuport in his backyard in the sandy Kempen area in a tool context affirmed by Dutch archaeologist L. Jimmy Groen.I think it is...
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A floating water bird sculpture and American Levallois lithic reduction...
A floating water bird sculpture and American Levallois lithic reduction technology described by Indiana amateur archaeologist Rick DoningerCrystal formations in the stone cover the back of the...
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Oregon burin flakes join flock of beaked bird flints from Arizona and Ohio
A flake from the Dennis Boggs collection at Irrigon, Oregon, has a familiar bird form where the beak may have had a tool purpose as a burin or graverOregon artifact at left, an Ohio artifact at right....
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The British Museum, unaware of portable rock art motif already...
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian, Jan. 24, 2013"It's smaller than your thumb: a little piece of mammoth ivory delicately carved into the shape of a woman's head. But this miniature...
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Ceramic feline figure from Dolni Věstonice calls into question British Museum...
The British Museum is promoting an exhibition of Ice Age art and released information which the Daily Mail and other news outlets have carried:Face of the 26,000-year-old woman! FIRST EVER portrait of...
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