Rock art discovery could shed light on when New World was settled

Telegraph UK ^ | February 23, 2012 | Fiona Govan

[SunkenCiv]

The figure, dubbed 'The little horny man' because of the huge phallus, was discovered in Lapa do Santo, eastern central Brazil, and is thought to be between 9,000 and 12,000 years old. Photo: NEVES WA/ARAUJO AGM/BERNARDO DV

[SunkenCiv]

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[Sacajaweau]

Wow...Talk about imagination. What a bunch of ahs

[YHAOS]

"The figure, which we named 'the horny little man', is probably linked to some kind of fertility ritual"

Ancient porn.

[JoeProBono]

[RegulatorCountry]

Somebody’s really reaching on that one. I’d be more impressed with the duck bill, if I werre them. Not as titillating as a “huge phallus,” I guess.

[Sacajaweau]

Why would anyone even consider that it is a picture of MAN...why not a lizard....which would make a lot more sense.

[Sacajaweau]

It seems to be raised...not carved...????

[RegulatorCountry]

Damp environment, something akin to calcification? It does look like an accumulation of some sort.

[Osage Orange]

I saw the exact same thing....at work, after someone left the coffee pot run dry...

The crud in the bottom...looked just like that!!!

[RegulatorCountry]

Tner was a lizard man with a duck bill and a huge phallus in the bottom of your coffepot, lol?

[Sacajaweau]

Dating the sediment covering the "picture"...I would say all the sediment in the cave was of the same date...Kinda like a duh....not like they hauled in new stuff...

These people are paid big bucks!!

[Osage Orange]

If you were tripping....like Janis Joplin, sure maybe.

All I saw was black boiled dried bubbled something............

[HereInTheHeartland]

Looks like moose drool.

[Verginius Rufus]

Obviously a gecko...what GEICO ads looked like 11,000 years ago.

[wildbill]

From reading the excerpt I was sure they had discovered a picture of my ancestor, but after seeing the ‘horny little man’ I have regretfully concluded that this figure isn’t part of my family tree at all.

Looks more like a duck-billed platypus exulting over catching a clam.

(You know something. I have enough wild imagination that I could probably have been successful as a grant-eating archeologist)

[RegulatorCountry]

It actually looks like som sort of insect or worm built it with secretions, like termites or “dirt dauber” wasps do, now that I’ve looked at it a while.

[visualops]

I wonder why it never occurs to them that maybe some of the stuff they find are just doodles...

[aruanan]

I think it's stretching to think that this looks like a guy with a dork. It looks more like a variation on the squatting man figures (thousands found worldwide) that are representations of one particular type of plasma instabilities seen in a high current Z-pinch aurora that occurred some 20,000 years ago PDF available here.

These images were adapted from Peratt's research by another group whose interpretation of the phenomenon Peratt disavows. The image in the upper left is of a plasma phenomenon that would have been visible worldwide and reproduced at various declinations depending on latitude of observation. The other images are of rock art from around the world that are believed to depict the plasma phenomenon. You can see more examples of other plasma instabilities and their representation in similar rock art in the above-linked PDF by Peratt.

[Leroy S. Mort]

It's a tail.