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Figure Stones
in Greece
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Evia Island
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Laios
Palingas Collection
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An oyster shell
carved in the form of a bird, with four drilled holes.
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An obsidian
tool in the form of a bird.
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An abstractly
bird-form pick. |
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A classic simple
"Venus", an anthropomorphic figure (looking to the
right), crested (shaman-like), with a rudimentary anthropomorphic
face on the belly.
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In typical fashion, rotated
counterclockwise the figure is bird-like with a face emerging
egg-like from the posterior.
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Another simple "Venus"
with an egg-like protrusion at the bottom, presenting a
zoomorphic figure (quasi-anthropomorphic fish?) when rotated
horizontally. |
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Right, a simple
pick tool from Evia incorporating the "Venus" motif
(would "Aphrodite" be more appropriate here?), and
left, one with explicit face detail from the finds of David
Stauffenberg in North Carolina, USA. |
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It is interesting that just recently professional European archaeologists have announced with great fanfare their realization that simple tools at Wilczyce and
Lalinde/Gönnersdorf,
showing no signs of use wear, are in the form of the long recognized "Venus" figurines that have appeared at various sites.
Amateur arch- aeologists, free of the long-standing preconceptions, have been recognizing and
publishing their observations of this relationship for decades.
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| Left, from Evia, a classic
bifrontal figure, anthropomorphic at one end and zoomorphic at
the other (frontal anthropomorphic face here, apparently -
rather unusual on figures of this type, as both figures are
usually in profile). Right, the same motif in a sandstone
from the Day's Knob site in Ohio. Below, a close-up of the
bird-like face with fairly clear eye and mouth. |
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