Face likeness on a boulder from the now lost, Lost Valley, Pennsylvania,...
Lost Valley archaeological site, #36CU0190, finds by Gary Yannone, et. al near Carlisle, PennsylvaniaThe Lost Valley Site has been lost to a real estate owner change. The site survey archaeologists...
View ArticleExotic stone uncovered by archaeologists on Jersey
A brief visualisation of an exotic stone found at a 15,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement in Jersey. The site, Les Varines, offers great views over landscapes now drowned by the English Channel....
View ArticleTwo companion Tennessee stone faces, one with a mouth full of 'teeth'
Jason Lamont finds, Hardin County, Tennessee, along the Tennessee RiverSide 2Box highlights lips and mouth full of teeth. This very same kind of 'tooth detail' is also seen on sculptures from The Old...
View ArticleA lion head with fluted whiskers, a mammoth figure with a human face profile...
'Lion head with fluted whiskers'Tony Holmes finds, hilltop site on his property in Dallas County, TexasTony writes "Note eyes nose and lips on right side. Another eyes nose and lips lower right. By...
View Article38 pound rock collected by artifact hunter exhibits classic mammoth form, has...
'Mammoth and feline combination sculpture' interpretation by Ken JohnstonRock collected by Anonymous near Saddle Mountain, Oregon. The stone material is identified as 'agatized peat bog'Illustration of...
View ArticleHudson, Florida, resident finds iconic material including quartz crystal...
'Smiling human face on back of crystal-studded mammoth figure'Teresa Stamey find, Hudson, Florida, 3cm"I literally thought I was going crazy when I started finding all these different stones that look...
View ArticleArkfeld Site mom's garden produces three bird sculptures
'Bird in left profile'Adam Arkfeld find in his mother's garden on the Arkfeld farm property at Clear Brook, Virginia. The bird head is at left and tail and tail feathering are at far right. Sculpture...
View ArticleTwo hominin heads joined together at the back and facing in opposite...
'Two hominin heads joined together at the back and facing in opposite directions'Jason Lamont find, Hardin County, Tennessee, from his property along the Tennessee River at a confluence with a creekIn...
View ArticleHead profile compatible with R. Dale Guthrie's 'gradient of human and animal...
'Zooanthropomorphic head in right profile view'Mark Gafkjen find, Minnesota River valley near MinneapolisAs a rock and mineral collector, Mark has identified numerous portable rock art figures in his...
View ArticleMissouri rock collector finds of stone faces are candidates for petrological...
'Human face with prominent brow ridge'David Von Canon finds, west Missouri and Arkansas border areaThese are candidates for petrological examination for evidence of Stone Age human modification. If...
View ArticleSmiling and scowling human head statue and hundreds of stone faces discovered...
'Stone head statue (smiling view)'Becky Mills finds, Texas"My friend and I have found hundreds if not thousands of these in a couple of creeks close to where we live and are not sure what to do with...
View ArticleTennessee River creek confluence site reports human head left profile with...
'Human head left profile with eye and with sets of parallel incised lines'Jason Lamont finds, Hardin County, Tennessee, along the Tennessee RiverThe reflective or sparkling inclusions in the stone may...
View ArticleVietnam cave river stone head likeness of Shiva
'Shiva stone head'Thath Chanuhacha collection, Bangkok, ThailandThath writes: Dear Ken, I just came back from holiday in Vietnam...This time I discovered a river stone from the area of Hoa Lu, Tam Coc...
View ArticleHomo heidelbergensis created a face on a tool handle by exploiting a fossil...
Homo heidelbergensis face on tool handle by exploiting crinoid stem fossil inclusions as 'eyes'"Circa: 600,000 - 400,000 years B.P Made by Homo heidelbergensis. Found at Northfleet, near Swanscombe,...
View ArticleA second mammoth and human combination sculpture from Hardin County, Tennessee
'Mammoth left profile with anthropomorphic face in lower left quadrant'Jason Lamont find, Hardin County, TennesseeAs seen before from Jason's site, the mammoth and the human are sharing foreheads. The...
View ArticleMammoth and feline head combination is second mammoth sculpture with parallel...
Jason Lamont find, Hardin County, TennesseeJason identified this rock as having artificial incised lines running vertically when the stone is in standing position. Jason identified another incised...
View ArticleA standing bird figure stone in flint from Licking County, Ohio
Ken Johnston find, Licking County, Ohio. 9cm, Vanport chertThe bird balances delicately on a worked tripod base on a flat surface. Found in an area which has produced several flint bird and bird head...
View ArticleA second human head sculpture from a Lower Paleolithic site in the French...
'Human head right profile (with 'hair')Henri Valentie collection, Île d'Oléron, FranceThe right edge in this view has several flake removals to affect the appearance of a human face profile. From a...
View ArticleNormandy, France, Mousterian industry 'scraper' includes human head effigy...
'Human head effigy with neck facing left'From Normandy, West of Paris BasinFrance Mousterian industry 'scraper' includes human head effigy with face profiles on its edges. This is a presumed...
View ArticleCairo, Egypt, area portable rock art find may be an amulet example of the...
"All seeing eye" portable rock art find by Ahmed Aggag, Cairo, EgyptAhmed Aggag found this stone 20 years ago at age 10 and has kept it since then. It appears to have been a mimetolith, or a rock...
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