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Miles Point, Talbott County, Maryland, site tool assemblege 'anvil' dated at...
Ken Johnston interpreted human head sculpture in typical left 3/4 profileDarrin L. Lowery find, Miles Point, Talbott County Maryland, 2006. Radio carbon dated by soil context to 21,000 BP.The 'anvil'...
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An Arkfeld Site mammoth, feline, canine, owl and human combination sculpture
Sculpture 'Mammoth, right profile'Adam Arkfeld find, The Arkfeld Site, Clear Brook, VirginiaSide 2 is a suspected feline head right profile and perhaps another animal head (undetermined, possible...
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Pure quartz stone from The Arkfeld Site appears to have been humanly worked...
Adam Arkfeld find, site #44FK732, Clear Brook, Virginia (2cm)Pure quartz stone from the Arkfeld Site appears to have been humanly exposed by removal of the stone around the crystal formation and has a...
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In typical fashion, Paleolithic artist exploited natural stone features to...
'Left eye missing face mask'Adam Arkfeld find, The Arkfeld Site, #44FK732, Clear Brook, VirginiaIllustration: some of the incised lines radiating to, or from, the right eye; a carved bridge and nose...
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Vanport chert bird figure depicts bird of prey with a quartz crystal bird in...
Flint Ridge, Ohio, bird figure with beak to the sky to accept foodKen Johnston find, Licking County, OhioSame stone, owl or other raptor looking leftRaptor looking leftRaptor with 'crystal bird' in its...
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Prepared core Levallois-like point was centered on two natural crystal pipes...
Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Licking County, OhioPrepared core Levallois-like point is centered on two natural crystal pipes through the flint and was likely hung as a pendant. Lithics scholar Blane...
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A cult of silent nighttime hunters? Beak on recent bird sculpture find lends...
Recently discovered owl sculpture with two other birds depicted on its face as featured earlier this month.In prior years on this blog I identified two Ohio spear point artifacts which are possibly...
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Italian rock art researcher identifies another figure stone at Piacenza
Luigi Chiapparoli find, Piacenza, ItalyLuigi Chiapparoli illustration of a face and a hand worked into the rough stone. "In this stone I see a musician" he commented.Close up of the carved face looking...
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'Horse bust' sculpture comes from strong Northern Italy rock art context...
"Horse bust'Luigi Chiapparoli scultura trovati da Piacenza, Italia
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'Talking to the mammoth' Texas worked flint includes human face image in...
'Human head in left 3/4 profile on a flint'David Boies find, Westlake, TexasIsolated human face worked in the flint while retaining and exploiting the stone's cortex as hair and eyes background. This...
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Second amateur archaeologist reports iconic finds along with tools in the Doe...
Chris Blumenstock find, Valley Forge, TennesseeThought you might like to see these rocks from the Doe River Valley of Carter County Tennessee. I was searching and trying to find out more about them...
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A micro art human-animal polymorph on a flint core from the Middle Acheulean
Jan van Es find, Boukoul, Netherlands (3.8 cm width)"The image is the underside of a stone core, but there are more images on this core. The Middle Acheul= 180.000-250.000 BP. All the images come from...
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Natural rocks with slight modifications become a figure stone and a hand axe
'Animal head (undertermined, perhaps wolf, bear or mountain lion) (3 cm)Chris Blumenstock finds, Valley Forge, TennesseeThe eye and mouth of the animal head are areas where careful scientific...
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Two stone heads from Washington
'Two stone heads'Andy Draine finds, Washington, photo received courtesy of Jan van Es. Finding one might imply a natural coincidence. Finding two of similar size and the same lithic material implies...
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U.K. Neanderthal flint core-tool likely also a sculpted bird figure
 From an old U.K. collection. Size 11cm x 4cm"An elongated Levallois core. Numerous alternating Levallois removals along length of core, creating a single continuous edge. Some signs of use along one...
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A janiform stone figure from Missouri
'Two faces looking opposite directions'Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, Jasper County, MissouriIllustration of the defined features of eyes, mouths and chins of the two faces. Found in a context of many...
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Natural History Museum of Utah portable rock art objects illustrate...
Natural History Museum of Utah portable rock art objects illustrate mainstream archaeology's tendency to look for petroglyphs and bypass the entire category of sculpturePortable rock art, ca. AD...
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Avian mega sculpture from Clear Brook, Virginia, pairs predator and prey
'Flying water bird (goose)'Adam Arkfeld find, near Arkfeld Site, Clear Brook, VirginiaThe head of the goose is at left, tail at right, and it is depicted as touching the ground or water as if in...
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'Human face looking left' and a second face may be presenting two human chin...
'Human face looking left'From the site at Grand Pressigny, France, private collectionPhotos by Henri Valentie23/19/11cmSide 2Quasi-anthropomorphic face in right 3/4 profile. This face seems to present...
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Transylvania, Romania, figure stone invokes similar human nose artistic...
Laura Ionescu find, mountains of Transylvania, RomaniaLaura's find presented here is a single find outside of any known archaeological context. A stone like this is often very difficult to assess as a...
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