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More of the 'mammoth with human face on posterior' motif from The Arkfeld Site
'Mammoth right profile with human face depiction on its posterior'Adam Arkfeld find, The Arkfeld Site, #44FK732Clear Brook, VirginiaOne of many mammoth sculptures from this site. This one could be...
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The Old Route 66 Zoo reveals more stone human head likenesses from a...
'Zooanthropomorphic face with animal-like left ear'Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, The Old Route 66 Zoo, Site #23JP1222Note the light tan 'eyes' and the reddish 'nose' on the face like figure which is...
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A turkey vulture head with a human face profile incorporated into the back of...
'Turkey vulture head with a human face profile incorporated the back of its neck'Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Licking County, OhioSide 2 of a likely turkey vulture head depiction. The material is...
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Korea example of hand axe with a face profile on its mid right edge bridges...
'Korea hand axe with crude human face profile looking right'Korean example of hand axe with a face profile in its mid right edge bridges the geographic gap between European and American examples as...
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Ohio amateur archaeologist identifies human head sculpture found among...
Adam Robinson find, Stark County, OhioAdam writes: "My elevation is almost 1300ft and the surrounding area is 850-900. I live on a plateau called top of the world. I don't think my land was glaciated,...
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Some of the many faces of the Ice Age Arkfeld Site, Clear Brook, Virginia
'Limestone plaquette, human head facing left'Adam Arkfeld find, Site #44FK732, Clear Brook, VirginiaIn addition to the head and neck profile in the overall shape the sculpture, there are two additional...
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Simple face likenesses on worked stones blurs the distinction between 'tools'...
Clayton Elliott finds, St. Joseph, Missouri, Buchanan County
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Standing animal sculpture from Virginia incorporates rhomboid shape found...
'Animal figure facing left' Adam Arkfeld find, Site #44FK732, Clear Brook, VirginiaBecause of the large number of animal sculptures found at this site it is not unreasonable to make a zoomorphic...
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A striking human head sculpture made by means of large flake removal from The...
'Human head sculpture by means of large flake removal'Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, VirginiaPlease note what may a crude animal face depiction on the right side edge of the first photo. The...
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Three crude portraits found among Lower Paleolithic tools on the Île...
Henri Valentie finds, Island of Oleron, France"Hello, I present these portraits whose dimensions are 22/18/15, 25/13/16, 17/14/7. These stones come from the same site on the island of Oleron.On the...
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Opposing animal heads, human heads and birds makes six creatures on a quartz...
Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Licking County, OhioAnimal 1 is interpreted as a 'horse' where the crystals serve as the horse's mane. The arrows illustrate the interpreted 'sight lines' of the horse...
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A quartz crystal figure stone in the 'Sleeping Duck' motif from the Columbia...
From the Dennis Boggs collection of tools, art and exotic imported stone material at Irrigon, Oregon.Interpretation by Ken Johnston, curator of the Boggs collection. Because of the glacial lake...
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They're "More like a Beatles' Tune:" Another Acheulean handaxe from the...
Acheulean handaxe from Mauratania, in north west AfricaThe pattern of human face profiles on the mid-right edges of some Acheulean handaxes argues for them being "More Like a Beatles' Tune Than a...
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Morris County, Kansas, pipestone artifact could be a mammoth head figure...
Morris County, Kansas, pipestone, Stauffer-Allison collection, 32cmInterpreted by Ken Johnston as a possible mammoth head figure including a trunk with a depiction of two "digitiform processes,"...
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Arkfeld site bird figure and handaxe found together today should further...
'Bird figure'Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, VirginiaThis is one of many bird figures from the Arkfeld site. This bird figure went from the ground to this blog feature in the matter of a few hours.Side...
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Missouri proving to be a leading state for 'portable rock art' sites as...
'Bird sculpture'Wendy Lutz find, Camden County, Missouri'Standing bear head and neck'The bear is in profile facing right with its defined nose to the air, a motif seen in other bear representations....
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A human head left profile sculpture in colorful flint from Missouri has...
'Human head left profile flint sculpture'Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, The Old Route 66 Zoo, site #23JP1222 near Joplin, Missouri, at Jasper County. One of hundreds of iconic finds from this 5 acre...
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Arkfeld site iconic handaxe displays symbolic marking convention linking it...
'Large iconic handaxe on a giant unifacial flake"Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, VirginiaThis is a very interesting tool specimen with what I interpret to be iconic properties, largely because of the...
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Arkfeld Site bird form chopper tool has an analog from Flint Ridge, Ohio
'Bird-chopper with human face profile at tail'Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, VirginiaThe bird-form chopper was found directly with the handaxe also interpreted with ambiguous zoomorphic attributes...
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Arkfeld Site sculpture in often repeating motif of "mammoth figure...
'Mammoth and human combination sculpture'Adam Arkfeld find, Clear Brook, VirginiaMammoth body profile facing left. Illustration of the 'mammoth eye' and the human facial elements which have been carved...
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