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Let's get small. Let's get really small. Attention to detail shows a world of...
Lyn Niday find, Bird figure on chert flake, Buckeye Lake shore, Licking County, OhioThe find here was made 200 feet from the find location of the Buckeye Lake sculpture hoard and its several pounds...
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Shadow of dance galloping horse, Denis Argaut, FranceThe rock is in the shape of a horse head and plays a galloping sound when rocked back and forthAs already described on this blog, Denis Argaut of...
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Sculpture just recovered from site number 23JP1222, "The Old Route 66 Zoo,"...
Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, "Old Route 66 Zoo"Â portable rock art site, Jasper County, MissouriMarch 2013 sculpture recovered from site number 23JP1222, Missouri #OR66Z, the "Old Route 66 Zoo," may...
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Oregonian identifies examples of "one eye open, one eye shut or missing"...
Nona Axsom finds, Portland, OregonNona has noticed the recurring pattern of rocks from her garden with crude faces with one eye open, one eye shut. This cultural meme originated in the Lower...
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More Luigi Chiapparoli finds from the high Trebbia River valley, Piacenza, Italy
Rock art researcher Luigi Chiapparoli find, Piacenza, ItalyPhotos Copyright Luigi Chiapparoli used with permissionThe Chiapparoli artifact above has a similar appearance to a one-eye open feline/human...
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Chiapparoli's feline head figure may also depict a swan-like floating water...
Luigi Chiapparoli find, Piacenza, ItalyI think we must consider the possibility of the head of a swan-like floating water bird being depicted on the feline figure identified by Chiapparoli featured in...
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Columbia River Gorge "one eye open, one eye closed" face mask added to others...
James May find, Washougal, WashingtonAn earlier post of two other one eyed mask stone faces identified by JimThe "one eye open, one eye shut or missing" motif has been reported from Europe and from...
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Traces of a stone face in Washington
James May find of a portable rock art human face, Washougal, WashingtonA reconstruction of our human ancestor, Homo erectus, popularly known as "Java Man." Â The portable rock art face Jim May...
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Dutch archaeologists identified rhomboid forms similar to those associated...
"Photo © A. Wouters. In Wouters, A., Franssen, C, and Kessels. A. (1981). Typologie van de artefacten van de Chopper-Choppingtool Complexen. Archaeologische Berichten 10:18-117. Stichtung...
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Anza, California, stone rhomboid form (with face image) found in suspected...
Rhomboid stone form with face image, identified by Karon Schwab, Anza, California, in a suspected portable rock art context introduced in a posting last month.Karon Schwab of Idlyllwild, California,...
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Vultures viewed from behind, looking left, with egg icons and face icons on...
(left) archaeologist Jan van Es bird figure, Beegden site, The Netherlands, and (right)Â Mark Jones find, Piney Point, Maryland.I note a remarkable image similarity in these two artifacts. Buzzards or...
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Missouri scraper with worked face calls for review of existing collections...
Bill Waters find, identified as an intended face representation on a scraper, from a Missouri collection. The face icon is seen in the photo at left, along the right edge of the artifact. Bill earlier...
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Flint figure stone just found at the same site supports earlier...
Licking County, Ohio, flint with human facial profile on edge looking right. The nose of the human seen in the translucence of the material may also be interpreted as the tip of the mammoth's...
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Prepared core, bi-polar lithic reduction technology used to create bird...
Bird sculpture found by Ken Johnston near Buckeye Lake, Licking Township, Licking County, OhioThis bird was found within 100 yards of another bird sculpture which was manufactured the same basic way...
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Colorado head sculpture with muzzle-like nose falls into R. Dale Guthrie's...
Petrified wood artifact found by 29 year collector Chris Schram in Westminster, Colorado, near Big Dry Creek. It changes from horse head to human head as the figure stone is rotated."Many human faces...
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Psychological "PAH triad" described by Bustamante et al. may have triggered...
Licking County, Ohio, sculpture find interpreted by Ken Johnston as, alternately, depending on one's visual attention, a lion head looking right and a one-eyed lion face looking straight-onFlint and...
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"...certainly not a habit of nature"
Flint bird figure made of Vanport chert, Licking County, Ohio is one of several dozen identified by amateur archaeologist and portablerockart.com blogger Ken Johnston."Patterson (1983) warns that...
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150 years ago: "Common sense tells us that the primitive people who made...
Licking County, Ohio, bird figure stone1) this object is an undisputable artifact2) this object has a consensus (generally agreeable) likeness to a bird3) this object combines skilled flint working...
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A two-sided oolitic chert mammoth sculpture featuring a crystal eye
A crystal-eyed mammoth sculpture, facing right in this viewThis sculpted chert boulder was found near other zoomorphic flints along the shore of the former glacial terminus swamp now known as Buckeye...
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Large feline face identified by Buzzy Boles
Buzzy Boles find, Laurens County, South CarolinaNote from Buzzy: "Possible large feline face (15cm wide and 18 cm long) found in the same creek bed and close to the large black mammoth sculpture. One...
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