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The Lost
Valley
Near
Carlisle, South Central Pennsylvania
Site #36Cu190,
Pennsylvania Archaeological Inventory
Principal
Investigators: Nolen Chew and Jeff Kottmyer
http://www.thelostvalley.org
| This site, located in a
marshy area, has produced many pieces of portable
rock art carved in the
same motifs as those at Day's Knob. It was visited in 2005
by Dr. Arsen Faradzhev, anthropologist and rock art expert from
Moscow, who determined material here and at the Day's Knob site to be
of human manufacture. The Lost Valley project is currently
inactive as the result of various problems, in- cluding of lack
of funding and a wretched display of intellectual timidity on
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This bird figure,
about 13 cm (5") in length, displays the characteristic motif of a figure emerging from its
beak.
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Canoe(?) - length
20 cm (8").
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Four of these
large 4 cm (1.6") apparent snake fangs were found together
at the site.
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This wolf-like
effigy also appears to have another figure emerging from its
mouth. Its ear seems to have the characteristic bird-head
form (also with a figure emerg- ing from its mouth), giving the
typical two-faced ("bifrontal") effect so common in
European Paleolithic artifacts and in modern but traditional Inuit/Yupik
"transfor- mation" art.
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Shaman-like
hybrid anthropomorphic/zoomorphic images.
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A typical
triangular bifrontal image/tool, one face quasi-anthropomorphic, the
other more zoomorphic (bird).
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