Posted 5 years ago
NENatvArt
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I recently uncovered this magnificent statuette of a fishing Loon carved from Mammoth tusk at a local gravel pit thats now closed. C. 11,ooo B.C.
Archaic Mammoth Tusk Statuette | ||
| Native American Antiques187 of 1909 |  |  |
mega yow!
Would you post 3 more views, please?
I’m having difficulty seeing a loon fishing, or anything else carved on it. Maybe it’s just the angle, lighting, or my eyes. :-)
I don't see the loon
Who authenticated this and dated it? I don't even see a tusk, I see a stone from the gravel pit.
I havent had time to properly clean and preserve it. The ivory is etched and painted with images of all types. How do I know its Tusk. Concentric rings, Schreger lines at 90°, the photo with yellow tracing shows the outline of the head and neck beak in the water. The eye is red as future pics will show once cleaned, the entire surface is covered wirh images. As for date- extinction 11,000 B.C., other accompanying items, undisturbed strata, I personally recovered this. I have multiple hundreds of other Artifacts in my 40 year long collection and Occams Razor is usually correct
So what you are saying is it hasn't been authenticated or dated, except for your personal opinion. Occams Razor neither proves or dis proves anything. When you have it examined by a professional and authenticated let me know. I doubt I will live that long but miracles happen they say.
When its properly cleaned and stabilized I will have an Archaeologist who is a professor of a local University do just that. As with all my artifacts they are authenticated in the mean time you should practice your manners
Ok, I guess that means unless I agree with you I should shut up because you have no idea what to do when you open your mouth and put your foot in it. If you intend making a statement like 11,ooo BC on this site, be prepared to back it up with authentication from a professional not your lame guess. As for my manners, I do have my own manner of getting my message across. Truth hurts but bite the bullet.
Sorry dude, I gotta agree with the others, I just see a rock. Not an unusual thing to have been found, as you yourself report, "in a gravel pit".
[a seemingly water-worn/smoothed rock, in an otherwise big hole where most that got dug out probably had fresher, sharper shapes/textures...now that might be curious unless there's also natural water of some sort running thru the place somehow too??]
Oh, how I've always really *wanted* to be one of those free-spirited/minded kinda people who really can see the 'faces in the clouds', or on hillsides fulla trees in the particular afternoon sun/shadows of the moment, or whatever -- but my brain just won't work that way for me usually...
PLEASE DO feel welcome to prove me (and us other skeptics) wrong, if you do get some actual confirmation from your Archaeology Professor friend, and/or further pics/evidence to back up your theories about this item.
This crowd is in need of a brownie party. LOL !
Did someone say brownie party,...? I'm up for it ....
How many times do we have to tell you, Bobby ? It's not a rock, but an old t*rd. Crazyguy, if you can get to SXM, the party starts then !