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Figure
Stones (Pierres
Figures) Elsewhere
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and on the pages referenced from this one incorporate at least one of the bird-human
features characteristic of artifact material at the Day's Knob
site. Some are obvious, others are subtle.
Note that a "bird" here, as on most pages of this
website, usually has a more or less rounded
quasi-anthropomorphic face.
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North
America
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figures below to expand:
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Europe
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figures below to expand:
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Hawaii
(Maui)
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| Basalt Figure
Stone collected by this author in woods near
northeast coast of Maui, October 2019. |
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Africa
Karnak, Egypt
| This flint end scraper
in classic bird form, 6 cm (2.4") in length, was
found by Matthijs Doornekamp. Note the
characteristic eye in the correct location and the
attention given to its detail. |
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South
America
The
Pedra Furada Site, Brazil
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| Not many photographs of artifacts from Pedra Furada
have been published, but sketches in the Athena
Review seem to suggest a similarity to the
material at Day's
Knob, like the three picks shown above next to a sketch of one from Pedra
Furada dated to 25,000- 32,000 years BP from
charcoal in context.
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OriginsNet
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Dr. James
B. Harrod's OriginsNet website provides an extensive
and thought- fully presented array of photographs of artifact material
from Oldowan through Upper Paleolithic in the context of "researching
the origins of art, religion, and symbolic meaning".
The
similarity of much of the material to that at Day's Knob is quite
evident. A notable example is a collection of artifacts assembled
by Dr. Walther Matthes of the University of Hamburg, Germany at http://www.originsnet.org/hambwitt2gallery.
Dr. Matthes noted the prevalence of bird and double-face (Janus-like or
"bifrontal") motifs in Ice Age artifact material near the
coast of the North Sea.
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Lithic
Casting Lab
This
is a website providing a wealth of information on
artifacts from many locations, Paleolithic and
otherwise. The many large and high-resolution
photos have been invaluable to this author in his
research.
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