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Stonehenge figures identified by The Open University are similar to a Maine...
Interpreted as "votive offering bird figures" from the Stonehenge site, courtesy The Open UniversityPhoto by The Open University, Stonehenge site stone bird figures Photo plate with a frame around the...
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"A piece of slate with 7 lines..."
"This article is not about easy answers, but all about the questions. In 2004, at a field not far from the village of St. Geertruid, (The Netherlands), among many prehistoric flint tools (with a...
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Little mammoth figure with human face icon in bas relief on its side
Little mammoth figure with human face in bas relief on its sideFind by archaeologist Jan van Es, The Netherlands The human/mammoth combination seen in Hans Gram's sculpture featured in the prior...
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Luigi Chiapparoli identifies Italian elephant sculpture interpreted as a male...
Luigi Chiapparoli find and identification of an elephant sculpture in ItalyJan van Es made these comments and interpretation of this sculpture: "The corpse is in fact of a baby elephant (mammoth of the...
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A bird sculpture with a quartz crystal eye from Flint Ridge, Muskingum...
"Bird sculpture with quartz crystal eye"Flint Ridge, Muskingum County, OhioThe sculpture measures 10cm x 14cmAnother bird looking right with beak tucked to breast. The two bird beaks are touching,...
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Minnesota artifact exhibits classic mammoth profile iconography, the Golden...
"Minnesota mammoth standing on the ground with a human face on its posterior"photos by Mark Jones, artifact from Gibbon, Minnestota6.8kg, 53cm wide to 33cm tall = ratio of 1.606This ratio of...
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Art of Homo erectus: two additional Acheulean handaxes, this time from...
Acheulean handaxe from the Sahara, west Africa, interpreted as including a facial profile of a monkey-like creature like other examples noted by Ken Johnston on this blog.ORIGIN: WEST AFRICA (Sahara...
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50 year student of portable rock art documented a "Full face of a cat" from...
"Full face of a cat"Arthur Langeneckert, Jr., find, Crawford County, MissouriLink here to Alan Day's web site Mr. Langeneckert makes reference toI think it is very possible this sculpture depicts a...
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Sleeping bird figure and human face profile on petrified palmwood from Colorado
Chris Schram find, near Big Dry Creek, Westminster, ColoradoFound in a context of other worked petrified wood figuresChris interprets a cartoonish anthropomorphic face profile looking left with an...
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Thai antiques collector notes a similarity between Hoabinian culture stone...
Hoabinian culture (Hòa Binh) figure from near Hanoi, Vietnam, ca 16,000 -10,000 years before presentTira Vanichtheeranont collection, Bangkok, ThailandObverse viewAreas of suspected human modification:...
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Flint Ridge human head profile with lips
Ken Johnston find, Licking County, Ohio, 8cm,11cm"Human head profile with pink lips looking left"Flint Ridge, Ohio, has been demonstrated on this blog to be the locus of significant iconographic...
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Oregon mammoth head shaped stone found in context of manuported exotic stone...
Dennis Boggs collection, suspected Stone Age manuport collected for its resemblance to the head and trunk of a proboscidean (mammoth). 17cm,7cm. Columbia River valley, at Irrigon, Oregon, likely after...
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Old Texas collection may have depictions of a Giant Sloth head and a Camelops...
Bill Waters collection, TexasInterpreted by Ken Johnston as a possible Pan American Giant Sloth headPostage stamp from BrazilBill Waters has documented a number of iconic flints in his collection of a...
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Sounds of the Stone Age: galop cheval blanc
Denis Argaut collection of galloping lithophonic horse sculptures from FranceDenis Argaut interpretion of a white horse head figure with perforated eye which reproduces the galloping sound of a horse...
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Exotic Libyan desert glass object from Egypt may also have been found and...
From Silicate valleys, south west Egypt8 x 7 cm ( 3.14 x 2.75 inches ), 218 grams, 1090 caratsThis object was collected as Libyan desert glass formed when an asteroid or a comet hit the surface of the...
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Pecked face on handaxe places figurative art in the mind of Homo erectus, in...
Pecked face on handaxe firmly places figurative art in the mind of Homo erectus, in addition to the geometric aesthetic which produced the classic amygdaloid shaped artifacts. Two other West African...
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Dutch pebble sculpture features head with one reflective eye on a deformed face
Jan van Es 40 year collection, Netherlands and Holland findsQuartz pebble sculpture of human head with reflective mineral inclusion as eye and other eye deformed or missing as an example of common...
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A quartz bison and three birds among many portable rock art sculptures...
Found (by "D") near Prescott, ArizonaInterpreted by D as a bison figure, quartzPrescott, Arizona artifactPrescott, Arizona, the eye in correct position is a factor in evaluating artifact status...
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23JP1222 "Lion head left profile" shares "eye" with human face depiction of...
Stacy Dodd and Rod Weber find, The Old Route 66 Zoo (OR66Z)Site bearing mutliple sculptures, Jasper County, MissouriThis sculpted cobble depicts a lion head in profile facing left. It also depicts a...
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From Mekong Delta, Vietnam, a wedged pebble serves as an "eye" in...
Tira Vanichtheeranont collection, Bangkok, ThailandTira writes: "This is a natural stone without any modification. The small pebble in the eye is also naturally stuck in and quite hard, can not be...
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