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Pleistocene Coalition News mammoth rock art?

A possible mammoth and human combination menhir?
But it's not unusual...

Very possible 'mammoth menhir' from the Dhaula Kuan site in India goes undescribed as such in the May-June edition of the PCN. It has a 'head bump' and a curved back like mammoths typically do in Paleolithic art. 

I propose this menhir described as "unusual" in the PCN is in a very usual Paleolithic art motif: 'Mammoth facing left with traces of a (human in this case) face on its posterior facing right'

Arkfeld Site, Virginia, standing sculpture is in the same symbolic template as the India standing stone: Mammoth facing left with full human face at posterior. 12 x 12 inches.

 
A second (of many) Arkfeld Site, Virginia, standing sculptures is in the same template as the India standing stone. Mammoth facing left with human face profile on the right at the mammoth's posterior. The human's 'nose' is also the 'tail' of the mammoth. 10 x 10 inches

These are much more likely to be mammoth art representations than Ray Urbaniak's recent examples given their context and exhibition of an already-described art motif. 

Archaeology of Portable Rock Art blog sometimes demonstrates or proposes the intelligence and creativity of Pleistocene peoples and the poor state of archaeological 'science' in describing them. Despite overlapping interests, the PCN does not think this blog or the material seen here is worth a link from their site or for publication***.

Archaeology of Portable Rock Art blog has dozens of contributors from the world over whose often shared independent observations indicate the presence of real, definable and describable patterns in portable rock art.

***PCN Editors informed me long ago the blog material seen here cannot be published because it is not recovered in controlled and secure professional archaeological digs. However, they have since published surface finds from editor Tom Baldwin and in the most recent edition by Kevin Lynch. Despite the flint flake being a water worn find from a beach, it is presented as "Acheulian." While it may resemble something Acheulean, an age for the piece cannot be known and it cannot be associated with other archaeological material.

One might think the same criteria which apply to tools would also apply for portable rock art. Context and human workmanship information is often presented on this blog. Amature surface surveys have significant value when trying to establish a recognition of materials which have not yet been described by archaeology officialdom.

Or one might think that the same standard would apply for portable rock art and sculptural interpretations as applies to petroglyphic rock art interpretations, a seemingly quite flexible and open-minded one in the case of Ray Urbaniak.

The Dhaula Kuan site in India standing stone compared to an Arkfeld Site, Virginia, standing portable rock art sculpture. They both depict mammoth bodies in left profile with human head depictions on their posteriors. The PCN does not understand how the information presented on this blog relates to what they do. This is an example of howso.

The shortest distance between the Dhaula Kuan menhir site in India 5 miles from the Yamuna River in New Delhi and Arkfeld Site at Clear Brook Virginia is 7,500 miles. Portable rock art similarities to United States finds have been featured on this blog from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam- even a greater distance east than India.

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