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Theme of animals looking behind to birth from vulva, fertility...
Dutch archaeologist Jan van Es markup of a face mask on a Licking County, Ohio, mammoth sculpture depicting the animal looking backward toward its vulva (click photos to expand and compare)van Es...
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Keith Stamper finds at St. Peters, Missouri, include Levallois technology...
Keith Stamper's find of human head profile sculpture facing left, St. Peters, MissouriA tool Keith found at the site in association with the human head sculpture, seen at left, is distinctly of...
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Bison flint sculpture
Ken Johnston find, interpretation as "Bison flint sculpture", Licking County, OhioThis is interpreted as a polyiconic sculpture combining probable lion head and bison forms. The viewer may turn the...
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Lion head flint sculpture from Wimereux, France
Lion head sculpture looking left from Wimereux, France, find by Charles Belart, presented at his web site hereNote the indent serving as the lion's eye and the attention to removing the stone's cortex,...
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Quartz bird figure from Hemet, California, collection of Karon Schwab
Quartz bird figure from Hemet, California, collection of Karon Schwab (click photo to expand)Side 2Side 1 with scaleThere is a ledge and a pad which fits the thumb in a secure grip of the bird figure...
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Two "smiling human skull/bird faces" identified 2000 miles apart,...
Hemet, California, bird figure identified by Karon Schwab and featured in the last posting. I have interpreted a smiling one eye open, one eye shut or missing skull, where the beak of the bird is also...
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Flint bulb "One eye missing" motif micro mask is paired with a feline...
Dennis Boggs find, Irrigon, Oregon, interpreted as a one eye missing micro mask by Ken Johnston (3.5cm diameter)This flint bulb "One eye missing" motif micro mask is paired with a probable feline...
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Tennessee bird mimetolith inspired prehistoric stone work to animate it with...
Sherry Hill find, Doe River valley, Carter County, TennesseeThis once fully natural pebble was recognized to have a strong resemblance to a bird by someone in Stone Age prehistory. Mimetoliths are...
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Polyiconic duck head with running horse head figure in a crystal-studded...
Licking County, Ohio, find and interpretation by Ken Johnston as a "duck head" figure stoneClose up of a "running horse's head" in micro stonework on the top of the duck head iconHorse's head attached...
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Flintstone may depict a "Paleolithic human/animal head with long muzzle"...
Ken Johnston find, Flint Ridge, Ohio, was recognized and collected for its zooanthropomorphic visual properties.It seems possible objects such as this were also recognized in prehistory and enhanced to...
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Bird and bird's nest "skull-egg sculptures" from The Netherlands Middle...
"Detail little bird," Beegden site, The Netherlands, quartz stone sculpture, Middle Acheulean, identification and photos by Jan van Esvan Es interprets skull-egg icons with the bird figurePam Douglass...
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Clive Finlayson's Vanguard Cave flint may be more than a simple flake in...
Desscribed by Professor Clive Finlayson as a flake indicating human activity at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar Ken Johnston identifies the stone flake here as a possible recognized or intentionally...
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Mainstream "archaeological science" not yet capable of assessing...
Muskingum County, Ohio, flint and quartz crystal bird figure stone, found at a new site on Flint Ridge about 5 miles from the find location of this somewhat similar flint and quartz crystal bird figure...
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Aleli Kelton's gravel quarry finds include suspected stone mask, bird...
"Rocky"Aleli Kelton find in landscape gravels delivered from a quarry at Chowchilla, California. A stone like this could be all natural, or, for example, someone in prehistory might have found it and...
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Formes d' ombres: independent investigator Denis Argaut illuminates the...
"These forms of shadows are born of an experimental and personal research on the stone, motivated by a single desire: They reveal in the shadows the smart creative layout...These forms that you will...
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"Bird looking beside" artifact from the collection of archaeologist Jimmy Groen
Aachen, Germany, ca. 8,000 to 7,000. years BP, Jimmy Groen collectionHello Ken,An object from my collection,that maybe is worthwhile to bring to your attention.The object is- to my opinion- a bird...
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Newly discovered slate gorget featured in "Ohio Archaeologist" may...
Illustration of an Ohio slate gorget, ca. 5,000 to 3,000 years before presentIn Ohio Archaeologist, Volume 63, No. 2, Spring 2013, published by the Archaeological Society of Ohio, Elaine Holzapfel and...
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Ursel Benekendorff presents a photo study: 5 views from different...
Ursel Benekendorff, from the Gross Pampau, Germany, site she discovered and which has been dated to between 524,000 to 423,000 years before present Ursel writes at her web site: The piece has a long...
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Pedra Furada, Brasil, sites have another American example of similar...
Ken Johnston find, Buckeye Lake, Ohio, interpreted as a vulvar representation in 2 pigments on a pebbleThis pebble has an oval in yellow pigment (yellow ocher?) with a red marking (red ocher?) inside...
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Wall of collected stones and a rendition of "The Scream" are contemporary art...
Wall of collected stones and a rendition of "The Scream" are contemporary art works recognizing the propensity of the mind to see faces with the most basic visual informationAlabama: About 14 miles as...
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