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A quartzite skull mask combined with 'raptor with prey at beak' motif from...
'Quartzite skull mask' 12cmAdam Arkfeld find, Paleolithic Arkfeld archaeology Site, Clear Brook, Virginia. Quartzite is an imported stone material to the Arkfeld Site. The conspicuous difference...
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A mammoth sculpture emerges from the snow at Site #44FK732
'Mammoth sculpture with human face profile on posterior' (26cm)Adam Arkfeld find, Arkfeld archaeology site, #44FK732, Clear Brook, VirginiaThe Pleistocene Arkfeld site has produced more mammoth art...
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Mammoth body and feline head combination standing sculpture from Flint Ridge,...
Mammoth body and feline head profile combination standing sculpture from Flint Ridge, Ohio (11cm)The mammoth is facing left and the feline head is facing right. This mammoth and feline head combination...
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Carvings mixed with natural cracks on Arkfeld Site limestone plaque
Adam Arkfeld find, Site, #44FK732, Clear Brook, Virginia (18cm)This is possibly a bird-form plaque: a bird head facing left and a bird body in profile facing right. Several carved pieces like this have...
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Hardin County site at the confluence of the Tennessee River and a creek is...
Human head looking rightMore Jason Lamont finds, Hardin County, TennesseeHuman and animal heads joined. Human with large nose facing left and animal facing right. This sculpture type has been...
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'Kissy Birds' (reprise)
'Kissy Birds'Mark Jones find, Piney Point, MarylandThis is a St. Valentine's Day weekend reprise of a figure stone named 'Kissy Birds' by its finder. It was eroding out of a bank into the Potomac River...
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Rock formation appears worked to enhance inclusion's bird likeness
Rock formation appears worked to enhance inclusion's bird likeness.Adam Arkfeld find, Arkfeld Site, Clear Brook, Virginia
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Standing two-legged figure with ambiguous faces is made of jasper imported to...
Standing two-legged figure with ambiguous faces is made of jasper imported to the Arkfeld Site. Adam Arkfeld find, Site #44FK732, Clear Brook, Virginia.
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A horse head sculpture, a crystal eyed pebble face mask and an 'Early Man'...
'Horse head'Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, Jasper County, MissouriThe Old Route 66 Zoo Site, #23JP1222I think this horse head sculpture is also presenting a feline, where the cat is curled across the...
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New technologies expand knowledge of early art in North America, it may be...
New technologies expand knowledge of early art in North America"The presence of incised stones found by collectors at Gault alerted archaeologists to the potential for finding early art in systematic...
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11,000 year old engraved pendant discovered at North Yorkshire, England
THE STAR CARR PENDANT, CREDIT: HARRY ROBSON"AN 11,000 YEAR OLD ENGRAVED SHALE PENDANT DISCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS DURING EXCAVATIONS AT THE EARLY MESOLITHIC SITE AT STAR CARR IN NORTH YORKSHIREThe...
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England Lower Paleolithic cobble tool with a human head likeness
"Mode I Oldowan cobble tool with human head likeness" Kent, England. Lower Paleolithic.
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Lion head sculpture from Site #23JP1222
'Lion head' element of the sculptureStacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, Jasper County, MissouriThe Old Route 66 Zoo, Site #23JP1222In a known Paleolithic motif, the lion head facing right may be joined with...
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Bird figures from the Zoo
'Limestone bird figure'Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, Site #23JP1222The Old Route 66 Zoo, Jasper County, MissouriPossible 'Human bust in right 3/4 profile perspective'When rotated 90 degrees left, the...
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Missouri amateur archaeologist identifies possible Paleolithic art and tool...
'Flaked bird figure' Clayton Elliott finds, St. Joseph County, MissouriAmateur archaeologist Clayton Elliott identified these zoomorphic stones, including a possible mammoth form at rear, center....
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Three left facial profiles from The Arkfeld Site, #44FK732
Adam Arkfeld find at Clear Brook, VirginiaClose up of the faceA second left face profile identified by Adam ArkfeldA third human face in left 3/4 profile from the same site
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Possible 'beak as burin' bird form tools from England have Licking County,...
Possible intended bird form tool, early Upper Paleolithic, EnglandThis pointed tool has been made on a flint flake, it is leaf shaped in plan with a robust proximal point and a fine distal burin. The...
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Check your Acheulean handaxes for iconography, some may be "animated" or...
Sahara desert Acheulean handaxeI came across this Acheulean handaxe on the internet and noticed it may be another example of a handaxe with a face incorporated into its mid right edge.Collectors and...
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American Archaeology has not accounted for tool types often associated with...
"The Hopewell Shaman" Licking County, OhioAbout 2,000 years oldThe Hopewell Shaman recovered at the Newark Earthworks in 1881 just 10 miles from my home is particularly notwhat most Native American...
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Stone head and pendant in close proximity from the Island of Oléron, France
Henri Valentie finds, Island of Oléron, France, on a Lower Paleolithic site producing other finds featured on this blog. "You can see many faces on this left profile" writes Valentie. 38/30/20 cm.A...
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