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To: DogByte6RER

I seriously doubt that it took that long to carve. Were any of these conservators actually real artists?


2 posted on 02/08/2013 8:32:01 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Yeah, I could knock that out in a couple hours with my Dremel Moto-Tool.


4 posted on 02/08/2013 8:47:30 PM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: Inyo-Mono
Were any of these conservators actually real artists?

From the comments at the end of the article. (Another one pointed out that male European cave lions didn't have manes, per various cave paintings.)

5 Feb 13 21:32 CET WULF HEIN, GERMANY
In 2009, I replicated the Lion Man from a tusk with authentic flint tools as an archaeological experiment on behalf of the Ulm Museum, the documentation can be seen here: http://www.echtzeitmedia.de/referenzen.php?id_c=loewe It took me more than 360 hours to carve the statuette, but once I started to work I liked to see it finished. I think the expression "work at daylight" used by the author of the article is mistakable, he just meant modern daily worktime (9 to 5). But I´m shure this artwork was made in more or less one go - as a reindeer hunter living a nomadic life you won´t carry around a statue weighing more than 1 kilogram for years and years. I could imagine that it was made during one winter by one specialized person being capable to do this - not everybody is a Michelangelo. "You carve for us, we pay for you". And I´m definitely shure that this statuette is sexless - where else are the female attributes depicted so impressive and often on venus carvings from the same time?

15 posted on 02/09/2013 12:54:06 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Inyo-Mono

It was probably made in a cave factory in what is present day China and imported.....


18 posted on 02/09/2013 3:25:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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