Tag: ivory sculpture

For more than 70 years, archaeologists have been piecing together the 'Lion man' out of mammoth ivory fragments.

Enigmatic Figure Dated Back To 40,000 BC Discovered In Prehistoric Stadel Cave

MessageToEagle.com | February 21, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – On August 25, 1939, archaeologists working at a Paleolithic site called Stadelhole (“stable cave”) at Hohlenstein (“hollow rock”) in the Lone valley, southern Germany, uncovered hundreds of

The Mammoth Ivory Male Head From Dolni Vestonice, Czech

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Indredible Mammoth Ivory Male Head From Dolni Vestonice, Czech Dated To 26,000 BC

MessageToEagle | June 23, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – This carved head in ivory is eight centimeter high and is dated to about 26,000 BC. It seems to depict a man with protruding brow ridges,