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Missouri plaquette depicting a human head profile looking left, crested by a...
Keith Stamper identification of human head profile, one of several, he has found among flaked tools in a small area of his yard, St. Peters, Missouri, near the Mississippi River.Interpreted by Ken...
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Quartz woman's head in left profile along with bird with crystal wings
Quartz woman's head (with hair or hat) looking leftIrrigon, Oregon, Columbia River valley, manuported (exotic) stone imported to sites in his locale by prehistoric humans and collected by Dennis Boggs....
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American sculpted shapes imply broad aesthetic appeal through time and distance
Dennis Boggs find, Irrigon, Oregon. I think this could be an abstract standing pregnant female in right profile form being depicted by selected removal of a stone layer, leaving a bulging rounded...
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Small translucent human head pebble figure from Oregon shares iconography...
Dennis Boggs find, Irrigon, OregonThis is a worked representation of a human head profile looking left with an elongated face and nose. There is no apparent tool use for this object and the attention...
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Human head flint effigy from The Netherlands demonstrates the subtle artistry...
Identified as a worked mini-sculpture of a human head profile looking left by archaeologist Jan van Es, The Netherlands. The small black dot on the upper left edge is a feature in the stone which...
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Buckeye Lake, Ohio, quartz sculpture depicts three mammoth forms, two human...
Quartz mammoth sculpture in silhouette facing left, from Buckeye Lake, OhioThe mammoth is often represented in this form, depicting its imposing height and the "domed head" as prominent defining...
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Human figure in quartz sandstone from Ohio site #33GU218 may also include a...
From Ohio Archaeological Inventory site number 33GU218. Photo courtesy of and Copyrighted by figure stone researcher Alan Day. Day has detected a worked human face figure on this stone. (read more...
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Bird sculptures made from prepared cores found with Levallois technique...
Bird figure in flint, Muskingum County, OhioSide 2 of the bird figureThe bird has a patch of quartz crystals on its head, like a sparkling crest, the only crystals on the piece. There is also an "eye"...
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A Nethers Flint bird sculpture from Muskingum County, Ohio
A Nethers Flint bird sculpture from Muskingum County, OhioVentral view of a colorful Nethers Flint bird form made on a large flake, from the Vanport formation in east central Ohio. The ventral side was...
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Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, portable rock art finds identified by Jeff Vincent...
Jeff Vincent find, Mammoth Spring, ArkansasJeff has identified several portable rock art sculpture forms at his site in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas. The "face on rhombus" was first described by German...
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Mammoth and bear illusion carved on tan and white quartz from South Carolina
Buzzy Boles carved quartz find, Laurens County, South Carolina. Interpreted as a mammoth head and trunk viewed straight-on. Buzzy has identified other portable rock art finds, including probable...
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Stone face from Beegden, The Netherlands, from Jan van Es
Beegden, The Netherlands, from Jan van Es, Old Acheulean, >400,000 years before present-kbj
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Carved pertified wood human head profile is second such example identified by...
Chris Schram find, Westminster Colorado, near Big Dry CreekHuman head profile looking left, mid-facial prominence and recessive chin like archaic-type humans or Homo neanderthalensis. This is the...
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Bison climbing on back of mammoth with a bison head looking backward is a...
Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find"The Old Route 66 Zoo," Jasper County, Missouri, site 23JP1222Bison climbing on back of mammoth with a bison head facing backward is a significant American palaeoart...
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"Feline face combined with egg" depictions from Ohio and Missouri similar to...
Ken Johnston find, Buckeye Lake, Ohio Interpreted as a worked quartz feline face on an egg-shaped stone. It was found in a strong context of other suspected portable rock art pieces. The distinctly...
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Mary Leakey found oldest known artwork at Olduvai Gorge, FLK North, Upper Bed...
"The FLK North Pecked Cobble"Mary Leakey find, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Harrod, J. (2013). Symbolic behavior (palaeoart) at two million years ago: The Olduvai Gorge FLK North Pecked Cobble: The earliest...
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Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, natural bird form stone nodule may have inspired...
Find by Jeff Vincent, Mammoth Springs, ArkansasBearded man head profile looking left where the man's beard is also a bird form. The tip of man's beard is the tip of the bird's beak. The bird's "eye"...
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The Hide Scraper of la Roche-Cotard?
"The Mask of la Roche-Cotard"The recent discovery of Neanderthal exploitation of the pliability quality of bone to make tools to assist in leather working makes it possible the "Mask" of la...
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Fossil-eye used in human, horse and fish imagery on same stone
Beegden, The Netherlands, archaeologist Jan van Es, >200,000 years before present Horse head image interpreted by van Es Fish head image interpreted by van EsFeliks, J. 1998. The impact of fossils...
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Ohio artifact centered on a white inclusion in the stone has a "fish mouth"...
Flint Ridge, Ohio, flake tool centered on white inclusion with possible iconography This flake tool stood out at a Flint Ridge quarry and workshop location as having a very old appearing patina and it...
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