'Smiling left portrait with cheeky jaw'
Subjectivity in Stone Age art works such as figure stones, engravings, sculptures, effigies and curated manuports. See how images and icons have been realized in portable rock media since the dawn of humanity. Here, archaeologists and art historians are becoming aware of these forsaken artifacts. “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing." -in W. Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1599.
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Big cat head sculpture with eye perforation from Arkfeld Site, Virginia, includes human face mask
'Lion head left profile sculpture with perforation as eye'
Adam Arkfeld find, Site #44FK731
This large sculpture weighs several hundred pounds. It is made in a typical artistic template or scheme which is seen in other North American cat head sculptures and which must have been culturally facilitated. This template is seen on boulder-size pieces like this to smaller 2-5cm examples. Eye, nose, mouth, chin, ear and jaw line are depicted here.
Cat eye
There is a 'human face mask' carved in relief in the lower right corner of the cat head.
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