tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6057432722659257077.post7563220970683642571..comments2024-03-22T01:42:37.271-04:00Comments on Archaeology of Portable Rock Art: Day's Knob, Ohio site #33GU218, reports two new figure stone findsKen Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626582215405908165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6057432722659257077.post-64663808702819036332015-07-30T02:31:03.570-04:002015-07-30T02:31:03.570-04:00I have been finding some fine pieces of art and wo...I have been finding some fine pieces of art and would like to know more about the things that I am finding.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801630808441797796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6057432722659257077.post-78498234298885813602015-05-24T23:24:25.996-04:002015-05-24T23:24:25.996-04:00Hi Ken...
Thanks for the nice presentation of my ...Hi Ken...<br /><br />Thanks for the nice presentation of my latest finds. These were quite serendipitous, just stumbled upon a couple weeks ago while I was showing the professional archaeologist and another fellow now working here the bank at the edge of the part of the site that was destroyed by 20th. century limestone quarrying.<br /><br />I will eventually show more photos ot the pretty lady on my own long-neglected web site (along with a lot of other stuff). Since the photos shown here are from an email to numerous people, I didn't go into the details, but you're spot on in noticing the bird imagery. Indeed it's the classic "Bird-Venus" motif I identified here several years ago: When rotated 90 ° (clockwise in this case) the figure becomes a flying bird. Common enough, but this piece is exciting (to me, anyway) in that it bears a very close resemblance to the Paleolithic European "Venuses" right down to the pointed base. (Do a Google image search on "Paleolithic Venus" to see what I mean.) Apparently this is one of quite a few Primal Imagery themes that covered a lot of territory (likely generally west-to-east) over many millennia. (Tentatively I'm thinking the material in this stratum here is likely generalized Archaic Period in age, possibly older.)<br /><br />Other weathered imagery at the tip of the base corresponds to my proposed widespread "Creature from Posterior" motif. And elsewhere on this piece are the very common subparallel incision lines that have been around pretty much forever.<br /><br />Ursel Benekendorff just emailed me her insightful conjecture that the pointed base facilitated mounting the figure in the ground. (Analogous, I guess, to the pointed bases on our stupid little solar-charged garden lanterns.)<br /><br /> Regards, Alan Day<br />ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09656187055895441038noreply@blogger.com